 Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel and in this lesson We are going to look at what I call as melodic arpeggios a technique to basically play arpeggios in a melodic manner or bring out The melody while focusing on the arpeggios sort of two for the price of one if you will and arpeggios normally will be chords which we move In a flowing manner in this lesson I've taken four chords Which I've done in pretty much a lot of the lessons in the past. We've taken E minor G major D major and a major so what you would normally do is you will be playing it as an arpeggio and I have done commonly used arpeggio patterns Which I've also covered and taught this video is about taking that to the next level Okay, and playing it in a very very unique and original flavor sounding way. So what was once? Something very common high middle low middle, right? You can now make it sound a bit more melodic Right something like that So I'm gonna the whole lesson is based on Starting with something we know an arpeggio pattern We already know and then figure out a way with just some simple Concepts to kind of bring out the melody line of whatever you want to play. So for this lesson We're basically going to deal with E minor G major D major and a major. I've used these chords a lot in the past, right? I like them. It sounds very brave and epic. So E minor G major D major a major you can play like this or like this and now what we do with melodic Arpeggios is we need to start with a phrase or start with a pattern which begins from the top note of the Arpeggio, so maybe create an arpeggio pattern which starts from the top for example high middle low middle or else High low middle low, what chord am I playing E minor? So I could do start like that High middle low middle high or else high low middle low High low middle low Yeah, get used to this And now we are gonna move things around so this is E minor, right? So if we just focus on E minor We could look at the top note and just keep moving it till wherever we can see I can't move it all the way I have human limitations. So I could do something like this So it's actually becoming very melodic right there because it's spelling out And What am I doing here with my left hand with my left hand? I'm doing something Really interesting, right, but very simple at the same time. I'm taking E which is my tonic in this case The scale by the way, I'm following an E Dorian scale, which is quite interesting Which is like an E minor with a raised 6th Right Okay, so if I start with something very common like high middle low middle What do I do then float the high note? So that's the high note and it goes all over the Bandwidth of where your hand can manage in the first place. So you go high High middle low middle and now start changing it F sharp I wish I could play that but it's too high and too difficult for me. So B C sharp a Company this with your left hand start with maybe an E base E What's nice about this technique You don't even need to play another chord you have enough of information because you're floating around the top note and The base note could also float for example Stay on E maybe play a C D A C it's just email E minor That's the power of the base So as you can see we've taken a very simple chord E minor Floated the top note floated the bottom note The left hand is also moved and we've created our song pretty much if you think about it So it's a really simple technique. You just start with a chord. Take the high note move it around as much as you can Start with a low note, which could be the root of your song in this case E or E Dorian And then move it around and see what options you can come up with and Look at the story. You're also trying to tell in your composition. So now this particular chord progression has More chords there are still more chords. So we have E minor G major D major A major so you see how the sky is the limit here, right with just E minor you've done so much and If you watch some of the earlier lessons on our arpeggio Techniques you are unique arpeggio techniques. You'll find that we've looked at accents. We've looked at clave We've looked at the Latin rhythms. We've looked at subtraction arpeggios where you look we looked at pattern arpeggios We've done quite a few unique techniques for arpeggio playing But if you bring all of that into this super unique technique You get something which has to be your very own sound Right while playing arpeggios and that's really what I want you to gain from this lesson So if I take let's say an accented phrase like a 3 3 and a 2 with E minor Okay, maybe change it But the whole point of this lesson is just to see what we can do with one chord and then you can do it for the other chords so Okay What did I do there? I took high Middle low the same Movement 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2, but the high note kept floating It's still 3 3 2 isn't it? Immediately you create a melodic phrase So what have I done there I've taken 3 3 2 I can do it with accents I can take I can do any of the Any of the patterns which I've mentioned in the earlier videos which you should check out if you haven't already and Use that in a melodic context. So if you take just this one chord E minor, there are so many Opportunities right so let me just have some fun for a few seconds and just play this and you'll observe The top note floating around. I'm not giving you something exact to play But I'm just giving you an approach so the general approach if you have to recap will be the top note starts the arpeggio so High middle low or High low middle focus on that top note. That is your melody line That has to be spelled out for your composition The low note in the left hand can just be can start by playing the chord root to the chord root of E minor is obviously E Right and then you start floating the left hand as you wish Diatonically of course, you don't want to play random stuff and then you float the right hand as you wish Diatonically of course so you go Even if you change just the bass Can be quite interesting Now float the high note Right make it rhythmically interesting with some accents You can do a lot of stuff So I'd advise you to practice it in a way not to perfect the music or the job at hand But practice it with a keen sense of wanting to make something happen wanting to make Music wanting to make a song right and it'll be great if you can right guys again This is Jason here from Nathaniel. 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