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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Andy Wood

Danny Elfman’s scores for Tim Burton are laden with dramatic musical movements – and learning his arpeggio style on guitar can give your playing a spooky, neoclassical edge

American musician Danny Elfman performs during The Night Before Christmas Show with Live Orchestra at Macroplaza, as a part of 'Festival Santa Lucía 2024' on October 29, 2024 in Monterrey, Mexico.

One of the more difficult techniques to master on the guitar is performing fast arpeggios, often played as a series of single notes on adjacent, and sometimes non-adjacent, strings.

The term “arpeggio” means “broken chord,” as the chord tones are played individually, in succession, as opposed to all at once.

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