Root, flat third and fifth. The minor arpeggio is the skeleton of every sad song solo you love. Every marked note below belongs to the arpeggio, anywhere on the neck. Root notes are orange.
An arpeggio is just a chord played one note at a time. When you solo with these notes over the matching chord, you literally cannot miss, because every note you play is inside the harmony. That is why arpeggios are the fastest shortcut from "playing scales" to "playing music."
Start small: find one root note (orange), then walk to the nearest tones around it and back. Two strings and four frets is plenty. Once a little cell feels easy, connect it to the next root up the neck. Speed is a byproduct, not the goal.
To go deeper, grab the matching shapes in the Scale Library, check which scales fit your whole progression with the Scale Finder, or hear the chord itself in the Chord Library.
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