Guitar Quote by Julian Bream

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

— James Galway

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

— James Galway

At the piano, scales, arpeggios And chords, the morning exercises, The afternoon's reading, the night's reflection, That's how to produce a virtuoso.

— Wallace Stevens

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

— Rita Dove

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

— Dave Navarro

The only thing you really have to practice is your ability. And this is something I do all the time. I try to teach…

— Jon Brion

Before you can apply chromatic ideas to scales and arpeggios, you have to get the chromatic scale itself under your fingers. You should learn…

— John Petrucci

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

— Lara St. John

I always get frustrated when I hear someone talking about sweep arpeggios. Though there are plenty of licks and examples out there, no one…

— John Petrucci

The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

— Steve Lukather

To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.

— John Petrucci

I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your…

— Julian Bream