A trademark of your playing, I would say, is your blazing fast and very musical arpeggios. Aside from the normal major and minor patterns, what other interesting sounding arpeggios do you like?
—Michal Laird
Hmmm. I enjoy whole tone and diminished arpeggios. Whole tone gives a sort of modern classical feel. Diminished, as we know, is pretty common with neo-classical farts. I also like sticking a flat fifth in major arpeggios. It sounds like a movie soundtrack. Also in that one I like replacing the major third with a second. So the notes, if playing in E, would be E, F#, Bb and B. Quite a stretch if doing three octaves. I like jamming sevenths and sixths in major arpeggios. I sometimes would take a pentatonic scale and leave out random notes. Those made for neat sounds. I would also put my fingers in random patterns. This is cool for sounding weird. I also was starting to do intervalic arpeggios thanks to Dave Creamer. I rarely did many jazzy arpeggios because I am not really a jazz guy.