 Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel. In this lesson, we're basically going to look at a 16th note independence exercise which I have presented for you in a lot of versions. So we will do this in different parts, if you will. The first part is going to essentially include a melody in the right hand following a 16th note time field and once you get a grip on the melody, you will then bring the left hand into the play to play four really nice sounding chords. Okay, so let's first break down the melody in the right hand. It's basically on the G minor scale, right? So that's G, A, B, flat, C, D, E flat, F, G, G, F, E flat, D, C, B flat, A, G. I'll play you the tune. Okay, so how do we count this or how do we make it easy for us to count? The first thing is imagine this in a time field or a grid of basically a 16th note division set where every beat is divided into four equal units, right? In some cases you divide it and you swing it but in this exercise we'll just try and do it in a very even kind of split. So how you're going to count it is 1, E, Anner, 2, E, Anner, 3, E, Anner, 4, E, Anner. So 1, 2, 3, 4 represents the beat numbers E and Anner represent the off beat numbers so 1, E, Anner, 2, E, Anner, 3, E, Anner, 4, E. Those are your ease. 1, E, Anner, 2, E, Anner, 3, E, Anner, 4, E, Anner, 1, E, Anner. Those are your an's where you divide it exactly at the 50% mark and then you have So I have created this melody using 16th note beats or 16th note divisions and I have not played all the divisions. I have not played something like I am not doing 1e and a 2e and a 3e and a 4e and a 1e and a 2 because that starts sounding very cluttered I guess and you have too much going on. So generally the logic behind playing groovy music or dividing the beat in general and then composing would be divide of course, divide more but play less. You don't want to over crowd it once you divide it because you have so many possibilities right. So divide more but play less that's basically the order of business for you all. So coming back to the melody and how we can count it. So I have a very handy shaker which I use very often. So the shaker will basically play 1e and a 2e and a 3 basically I am playing all the divisions with this. I'd suggest that you pick up one something similar you even get it in an egg form which is quite cool that's called an egg shaker they say okay. So you go 1e and a 2e and a 3 and a 4e right keep that going and let me build the melody for you right slow that down 1e and a 2e and a 3e and a 4e and a 1e and a 2e and a 3e and a 4e and a 1e and a 2e and a 3e and right there are your hit points goes on up to speed which for this composition I have set to about 96 BPM you can go anywhere between 90 and 100 beats per minute that will be an awesome speed for the drill. There we go now we cannot leave an exercise unfinished with just the melody on the piano right who does that we need the left hand to come into the play and generate the pulse so that's where this becomes a really nice independence exercise where I have four really awesome chords which I think you'll enjoy and those chords are not played in such a fancy manner with all these off beats they're basically going to be at the down beats so that'll be 1e and a 2e and a 3e and a 4e and a 2e and a 3 just at the on beats and the melody in the right hand so before you actually get the melody in the in the right hand I would suggest that you actually practice singing the melody with the left hand playing the simple chords so what are the chords you have G minor first chord I like this I like the suspended chord which I've added in here Fsus4 so G minor Fsus4 what is Fsus4 Fbb C so those are the first two chords G minor Fsus4 and then it goes to what is that it's a four-note chord which I quite like it's an Eb major with an added C okay that's your third chord that's your D minor seventh which is DFA plus that minor seventh C so let's go through the chords again that's G minor Fsus4 Eb major sixth D minor seventh okay and now our final mission play the melody in the right hand and the chords in the left hand so that'll go now you could play the chords in the left hand twice that'll make it pulse like that'll be one two three four one two three or you can attack the left hand only at the ones in the threes of the bar which will be one three poses its own sound and its own challenge of course so you go with the pulse one two three four one two three four one and keep that shaker which we learned earlier sort of at the back of your head so you don't lose timing in the right hand yes you can always read this stuff and play or yes you can also do the math and see where the right hand and the left hand align with each other but that's not the most organic way to get this done you have to get it done with the pulse felt by the body and then the music comes along with that pulse having divided the beat into four units in this case in this lesson we are dividing the beat into four units so keep that shaker going in your mind right to keep that in your head with the chords you're gonna keep time for sure what I like to do with my voice you know is just try to sing one note start with one note you don't have to do it in this weird howling falsetto of mine but you can do it just try one long note maybe the G or the saw of the scale you know just go with that hold something with your voice see the problem there is now I'm singing something and then my melody gets disturbed a bit which is cool which is fine it's nice to be a bit adventurous and explore a bit but you want to try and have some kind of consistency and also have a lot of fun and be really creative in this ecosystem okay so it goes so I'm doing and so on and so forth now you could also use the hit points which I mentioned there one E and a 2 E and a 3 E and a 4 E and a 1 E and a 2 N 1 E and a 2 E and a 3 right you can use those hit points and build your own melody on your own scale on any chord really I've just looked at this exercise as hopefully a template or a jump start into this process of counting and feeling 16th notes and thereby also improving your piano hand independence so you can explore same hit points end on that G major chord which sounds a little bit cool I think at the end of the passage of music right guys so this was exercise one on how you can develop independence of your hands in all sorts of different ways in this case using a 16th note time feel the melody played in the right hand and very simple but beautiful and colorful chords played in the left hand so I'm going to conclude this lesson by playing whatever I played really slow so you can follow it rather than having to keep rewinding and fast forwarding in YouTube let's watch and follow along and play along if you can let's let's get rolling hope you're going to practice this hard on the piano do let me know your thoughts your comments and as always share the video give it a like if possible subscribe if you haven't already etc etc and I will see you in the next part where we are going to explore hand independence and melodic versus harmonic and rhythmic independence and a lot of other kinds of independence over the 16th note time feel in the future videos stay tuned