Unknown arpeggio shape sweep

[Vai the god of Sound]

Is there anyone that can determine this arpeggio shape? I've been looking over it through the form and can't seem to find out what it is...it seems like a Dom7 type of sweep...but I'm not sure;

E--------------12h15p12-------------|
B----------13-------------13----------|
G------14---------------------14------|
D--12-----------------------------12--|
A---------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------|

From the C major scale minus the root note its: 2 6 8 10 12

[Vai the god of Sound]

Nevermind, I just figured out it's an Am/D arp with a hammered G.

[nvn]

You could call it that I suppose, but I'd rather call it a Dm11 (without the third).

[BrianH]

if you are keeping this in the context of the C major Key, then this is a C6(9). It can't be minor at all??? However it might have been meant to be a D dorian sweep I could tell more if I knew either the bass line or chord strummed(riff played) underneath this arpeggio, if it was based on an arpeggio at all. Therre are many other ways you could look at this 'arpeggio' but its context would help give it away, hopefully

[nvn]

I find this very interesting. When I read the sweep, I got the sound of d dorian in my head - although neither the minor third nor the major sixth is present. I'm such a sucker for the dorian mode so I probably tend to interpret everything on that basis, hehehe. Like you said, the context would help give it away, but right now the context is all in the head of the reader...among with the rest of the musical universe. And I spontaneously feel an urge to put Zappa's "Yo' Mama" on the stereo.