help with G harmonic minor arpeggio

**robsmith** · Jul-08-2012, 1:10pm

I am doing my Grade 1 mandolin exam in 2 weeks and have to play the G Harmonic minor scale with the arpeggio.
I have got the scale itself down, but I am struggling to get the arpeggio (notes and tab)

Can anybody help me out with this PLEASE!!!

**Mike Bunting** · Jul-08-2012, 1:16pm

Is it not the 1,3 and 5 of the scale?

**robsmith** · Jul-08-2012, 1:28pm

thats what I was told too. the 1,3,5 and octave but when I played this to how I had worked it out from the scale I was told it was wrong??!!!

**Mike Bunting** · Jul-08-2012, 1:37pm

http://www.basicmusictheory.com/q/3/p/g
This may help.

**August Watters** · Jul-08-2012, 1:46pm

Could it be they're looking for an arpeggio of a 7th chord instead of a triad? Playing 1-m3-P5 as you did gives you the same notes as the Im arpeggio from the natural minor scale. If they're asking for an arpeggio based on the harmonic minor scale, perhaps they're looking for 1-m3-P5-M7 ??

**robsmith** · Jul-08-2012, 1:48pm

Originally Posted by Mike Bunting

http://www.basicmusictheory.com/q/3/p/g
This may help.

Mike, Thanks very much!!!

Feel a right idiot now. It's so simple when you count the notes correctly. I'm bookmarking the link you sent.

Thanks again!!!