An Etude

by Mike Campese

Today we are going to learn an etude that I wrote. This piece is very classical sounding but it doesn't matter.

I like to play many styles of music, and quite often even violin pieces. Its great for your chops and it's musically
sound. So let me explain this.

This C minor etude starts out with a Cm add9th arpeggio and then leads to a pedal point on the G, on Beat 4 and
5 (bar 1). This pedal point technique is often used in classical music.

Then we proceed to a Bb add9 Arpeggio also with a pedal point like the Cm. Notice the first 3 bars are in 5/4.

In bar 4 we have a dim7th arpeggio moving in min 3rds. Those of you who dont know about the Dim 7th, they
can have 4 different roots. In this case we have a (F,Ab,B,D) Diminished 7th arpeggio.

In Bar 5 we resolve to the relative maj (Eb). Then back to the diminished arpeggios...

In Bar 6 we continue the diminished arpeggios but in a 4 note pattern up and down in min 3rd intervals until we
resolve back to Cm in Bar 8.

This piece is pretty much straightforward. The notes in this etude are based out of the C harmonic minor scale
(C,D Eb,F,G,Ab,B) and the C Min Scale (C,D,Eb,F,G,Ab,Bb).