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ARPEGGIOS ON FOUR STRINGS

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ARPEGGIOS ON FOUR STRINGS

major and minor in one position · exactly an octave, one note per string

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Standard$1.50

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Formats
A4 · A3 · A2
What you get
Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
music · beginners · memo · music room

The filled dot is the root and the figure inside each dot is the degree of the triad. The dots are calculated from standard tuning; the sheet prescribes no left-hand fingering.

FOUR STRINGS ARE THE ONE CASE WHERE EVERY STRING GETS A NOTE

An octave of an arpeggio is exactly four notes: root, third, fifth, root again. There are four strings, so each gets exactly one note and the hand never makes two moves on the same string. Neither five strings nor three work out that way.

The shape is not straight, though — it leans back. The root sits at fret 5 and the upper root at fret 3. The tuning is why: the fourth and first strings are 14 semitones apart, an octave and a tone, while an octave needs exactly 12, so those two extra semitones have to be given back by stepping two frets down.

That is how the four-string arpeggio comes to be first in every sweep-picking exercise: one stroke per string, a four-fret window, one finger per fret.

On the sheet

  • The filled dot is the root and the figure inside each dot is the degree of the triad. The dots are calculated from standard tuning; the sheet prescribes no left-hand fingering.
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 12 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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