arpeggio

And with a sparkling arpeggio, we find ourselves suddenly in E-flat major, squinting in the sunlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She came up with a swirling arpeggio effect, which Britell turned into a motif for the “memory of trauma.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

Details are fastidious; in “I Drink Wine,” she sings “I’m trying to keep climbing up” while her voice rises in an upward arpeggio.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2021

DaBaby and Ricch’s “Rockstar,” Billboard’s official 2020 Song of Summer, was the most bewitching of the bunch, built out of a moody guitar arpeggio gentle enough for a country record.

From Slate ● May 1, 2021

They conduct the genome, thereby playing out its music—activating the viola at the fourteenth minute, a crash of cymbals during the arpeggio, a roll of drums at the crescendo.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Dancing on the Ceiling” does the opposite, starting with very verbose Art Tatum-style arpeggios in the verse but then mellowing out in the chorus, and quoting “All This and Heaven Too.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

It’s synthpop swells and arpeggios feel like a pure-white LCD sunrise over a William Gibson landscape.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

When Berry implored the band to rock out again, the group switched gears and made 1994’s “Monster,” in which Buck ditches his arpeggios for power chords run through a distortion pedal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Quasi-Baroque keyboard arpeggios pace a track that holds back, recognizes that “Time doesn’t stop for a sad little girl” and surges as she decides, “This time I think I’m found.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

That learning about the Pythagorean theorem and arpeggios and dissecting worms is the only thing that could keep her mind off it.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy