Improve your technique by mastering arpeggios

Arpeggios are one of the building blocks of technique on any instrument. Using Practice.farm and the circle of fifths play mode, you can improve your fluency across all keys.

Setting Up Your Range

1. Open the Settings panel and set your Range to cover at least 2 octaves
2. Choose your range focus:
   • "The Lowest One" if you want to work your low range
   • "The Highest One" to work high register
   • "Random Selection" for comprehensive coverage

Accessing Arban's Arpeggio Exercises

1. Open the Library
2. Under Exercises and Etudes, click Arban: Complete Method
3. Open the Arpeggios chapter and select exercise 5-48

Setting Up Circle of Fifths Mode

1. Enable Auto Beat (the lightning bolt in the bottom bar)
2. Set the play mode to Circle of Fifths (click the button to the right of the lightning bolt to cycle through the play modes)

Practice Process

1. Click play - Practice.farm will now cycle through the circle of fifths
2. Practice each key until comfortable
3. When you arrive back at the starting key, click "Next" in the top right of the screen to advance to the next arpeggio exercise

Tip: You can adjust the pause between exercises in Settings > Metronome to fine-tune the pace.

What You'll Cover

With the Arban's arpeggio chapter, you will practice:

• Major arpeggios
• Minor arpeggios
• Dominant 7th arpeggios
• Diminished arpeggios

You can apply the circle of fifths process to any exercise in the library.

Building Your Skills Over Time

As you develop:

• Increase tempos while maintaining accuracy
• Work on improving your state of calm and relaxation while playing arpeggios
• Focus on smoothly connecting your registers
• Work on playing with excellent groove and musical phrasing

The systematic approach of practicing through the circle of fifths ensures you develop equal facility in all keys, rather than favoring familiar tonalities.

Deepen Your Understanding of Systematic Practice:

• Circle of Fifths Mode: When Music Theory Meets Learning Science - The research behind systematic key progression
• What Makes Practice.farm's Metronome Unbeatable - How Auto Beat enhances your arpeggio practice
• Smart Practice Beats Hard Practice - Why systematic variation creates superior learning outcomes

Perfect Your Technique: Experience Practice.farm's Circle of Fifths mode and transform your arpeggio practice with intelligent transposition.