scale / arpeggio / chord Are you hip to the coolness of how the
pitches of a scale become an arpeggio, and how this sequencing
of pitches within the arpeggio can then be stacked vertically
and struck simultaneously to create chords? If necessary, read
on. The following musical example simply presents a C major
scale in measure 1, then respells the major scale using the
intervals of the major and minor thirds, the essential tertian
chord building intervals within equal temper. It is in this
respelling of the pitches of the major scale by thirds that
creates the C major arpeggio, as in measure 3, then stacks the
pitches of the arpeggio atop one another to create a C major
chord as presented in bar 4 below. Thus, scale / arpeggio /
chord. Vwala. Example 1. Can you see and hear how the scale in
bar 1 becomes the arpeggio in bar 3? Then how the arpeggio in
bar 2 is simply stacked one pitch upon another to create the
chord in bar 4? Cool with this? Does the sound of the arpeggio
and chord sound a bit off to you? No