 Hi guys, welcome to this next part on how to make your arpeggios shine out sound a lot more organic Have a natural flavor be played with a lot of dynamics create a storytelling environment And more importantly sound a lot more human and a lot less Programmed or robotic if you will so I'm doing a few very very basic things with the arpeggios We learned in the earlier lesson. Let's first recap what we did in the earlier lesson We took E minor G major D major and a major and then played them in a flourishing manner using arpeggios LMHM Low middle high middle then we looked at high middle low middle Then we looked at high low middle low Now I'm just gonna give you a few tips and a few approaches to just make this sound a lot more professional and Put you in a elite group of people in an even playing field of everyone knowing this same stuff How can you be in a complete different league from these people? So the first thing I'd like to focus on is volume control or dynamics in order to do that You take the same arpeggios and you need to create a volume wave Sort of like a person moving on a journey in a like a hill environment you go up the hill It's a little bit more louder and then you go down the hill It's a little bit softer right then you come all the way down and you're very very relaxed because it's sort of soft And then you go all the way up and it's at the peak of the volume So you need to try and do this in order to take your listeners on an experience or on a journey If you will while they are listening to your song. So this performance May not sound as good as maybe this performance Right It has a lot more character This has a lot more intention a lot more purpose This would work if someone gives us lyrics to have a song over we can play with the lyrics We can play with the singer. So one way to look at dynamics is just that you just follow the words of the song Or your vocalist depending on how the vocalist performs with their emotions Maybe in the chorus you could play louder. Maybe in the verse you could play softer or follow your singer Maybe in a line itself the singers getting louder very important approach towards developing dynamics is to just let your breathing Take control over the sound by that. I mean if you breathe in For some reason it's tightening the muscles and the volume appears to be getting will get rather a lot more louder So this really works for me and a lot of the students. So I've taught over the years. So I'm sure it'll work for you So as you play the arpeggio Breathe in and just see what happens And now I can't breathe in anymore. So I start breathing out As you breathe out The volume appears to relax itself and get a bit softer So just follow your body and play as natural as possible, right? So breathing will really help take your playing to the next level. Of course, you have to control your breathing Musically and also not lose time. So it requires a little bit of practice Perhaps you could do it with the metronome running By your side. So that is one great way to improve the professionalism while you play arpeggios on the piano Moving on another great way to look at arpeggios is to play them with the sustain pedal on so with each chord See what's happening the sustain pedal is on so So what that does is it not only sustains the sound but it also adds additional Overtones which the sustain on a real piano Physically does you know with the mechanics or the way the sound harmonics are created the overtones actually add to the sound and create like a very Nice warm layer a pad like layer along with your chords along with the actual piano sound. So without the pedal Even though I am playing it nice Doesn't sound as full as with the up with the pedal With the pedal And pedal with volume control Pedal with dynamics And volume goes up, right So just these two things alone, you know can just take your playing to the next level However with the pedal comes another Responsibility wherein you have to lift it before you change to the next chord. So if I do E minor I Can't hold it like that All of the overtones are just fighting with each other. They are all coming to together So well, you the only way to overcome that is lift the pedal you're lifting the hammers off the strings Lift just before the next chord or if you're not so certain lift it a beat before two and three and four and one Right and three and four and one and two And you have to lift it at some point. You cannot hold it you yourself are gonna figure out that the sound is wow It's a bit scary because everything is being heard and the sustained pedal needs to be lifted primarily when your left hand starts Going deeper and deeper which you want as a piano player, right? So these are the two tried and tested ways which I would say professional pianist do the last way Which I wanted to share with you while playing your arpeggios to make it more dynamic Is to follow the drummer of your band and more specifically Wherever you feel the snare drum is going to strike. So if I go So wherever the snare drum is hitting you could perhaps accentuate that you could play that a little louder, so maybe This work great for rock songs So soft kick loud snare, so you have to imagine the drum groove playing, right? And so on Now if you reorder the arpeggio if you do high middle low middle Four so generally the snare hit points will end up being at the two and the four of the bar So if I counted out for you Every two and the four you just accentuate right so in this lesson We've looked at three ways to make your piano arpeggios a lot more professional a lot more elite and a lot more Organic and human sounding what is the first method to just breathe in and breathe out you breathe in things get louder you breathe out things get softer and also follow your vocalist and Dynamics in a nutshell the whole approach the first suggestion was all about dynamics Then it's about using the sometimes forgotten sustained pedal press it lift it press it lift it And then follow the drums more particularly the snare drum at the two and the four So these two lessons the earlier one and this one if you haven't watched the earlier one That'll give you a perspective to do this one a lot better I'm sure and head over to the next videos as we do them We'll be doing a lot more ways to make simple arpeggio patterns a lot more interesting a lot more Compositional a lot more unique and a lot more cool again Jason from Nathaniel do subscribe to our channel turn on the bell for notifications and keep rocking cheers