Technique Question - Consecutive Notes, Adjacent Strings, Same Fret

[evhan]

Guitar noob question:

The Berklee method book dictates that you should "roll" your finger from one string to the next. This is fine with my larger fingers, but I've run into trouble in some cases. For example, for your standard two-octave C arpeggio, second finger rooted at 8:

---8---------------------------
-------8-----------------------
-----------9-------------------
--------------10---------------
------------------10--7-------
----------------------------8---

If my hand is in the chord's shape it's fine, but when playing linearly my pinky doesn't really do that. Solutions?

[JohnW400]

The 10's ( C-G) may be played 4-3.

I read an interview with Scoffield years ago where he mentions that he usually uses different fingers to play adjacent notes such as thes rather than barre.

[C.A.JO.]

I'd say go for the rolling technique. It saves motions when you get it right.

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[Goofsus4]

It depends on whether I'm going up the neck or down. If I am approaching from above (ex - moving from fret 3 to fret 5), I will play like the Scofield reference - with separate fingers. If I'm going the other direction, I'll usually roll a barre.

[SwingSwangSwung]

I tend to roll - although I find it takes a little more thought in advance. In other words, I need to know I'm going to roll when I initially put my finger down on the first note. If I'm going to roll, I'll place my finger on the first note differently than if I'm not going to roll.

[vsaumarez]

Rolling, barre mute, separate fingers, or jumps all work, but in different contexts. Try em all. Rolling doesn't always work for uptempo. Barre mute is great for ripping arpeggios, separate fingers is better especially for uptempo, but depends where your fingers are going next, and jumps are fine for ballads as it keeps the fingers free.

[gb00842]

Valuable information.