 Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel and in this lesson We are going to look at what I call as displaced octave arpeggios a nice technique to take some commonly used arpeggio patterns like This and make it sound very unique and develop a very original vibe If you will to suit like a hook which you could make in your song Okay, and make your arpeggios really stand out and be rememberable So this particular lesson is part of an entire lesson series If you will on how to make arpeggios unique original Professional and whatnot. So check out the description There's a playlist and a lot of links to show you other lessons which I have done on this subject I love talking about arpeggios and there are a lot of lessons Which we've done and which I want to keep doing, okay? And if you haven't already it'll be great if you could turn on that bell for notifications and Subscribe to our channel if you haven't already it'll be awesome to have you on board. Okay, so let's get started with displaced octave arpeggios So if you take four chords in this exercise, I'm taking E minor G major D major and A major okay four chords Now commonly used approach which you will find to play arpeggios would be just played in a cyclic loop starting from the bottom. It'll be something like In this case L M H M L M H M L M H M So it's a very commonly used arpeggios style, right? And I have taught the commonly used stuff as well in the check out the description and all the links are there for you to Watch. Okay. The whole point of this lesson is to make the arpeggio pattern sound unique and Original. So now if you take the same thing L M H M L M H M So what I mean by displaced octave arpeggios is where you take the bottom note or the top note of the chord and Instead of repeating it at the same point in this case the bottom point So that'll be L M H M Low middle high middle instead of repeating that again. We can keep it a bit interesting by Repeating it an octave above. So E G B G Instead of playing that E again We go an octave up. So E G B G E G B G It's still E G B G E G B G But E G B G E G B G That's a displaced octave as I'm calling it. So you have E G B G E G B G Yes, it appears as though there are four notes, but there are only three unique notes The fourth note is a repetition of one of the notes. So E G B G E G B G Why don't you play it along with me and keep four fingers ready for this arpeggio? You need four because there are four notes one got to be displaced here. So thumb index middle and the pinky thumb and the pinky are important while playing octaves of any form So you go L M H M L M H play along L M H M L M H M L M H M Okay, so that's E minor then we have G major which I'm playing like this using the inversion So that's D G B. So you need to again copy the D up top Okay D G B G D So let's do the two chords E minor and G major G major E minor again G major Get used to the grip and then change over to the other chord D major. This is the normal shape Okay, so if I do L M H M L M H M tends to sound a bit redundant or repetitive. So H M L M H M I play the top L, okay Lastly a major I'm playing E A C sharp and again take the low note find its octave E E and you get yourself a displaced octave arpeggio So let's look at all our chords again E minor Get used to the hand hold and the fingers G major I'm using my ring finger here G major Now D major A major Okay, so for some chords I need my ring finger for the third note for some chords I need my middle finger for the third note. Let's put it all together and play along if you can E minor G major D major A major G major A major little faster and count one and two and three and four And one and also put in some expression one way is obviously volume can keep changing Get louder get softer Also, you can use the pedal The pedal creates those overtones You could also highlight the drum kit you can look at accentuating the snare drum Play the snare hits whatever you imagine as the snares a little harder And yeah, I've also done a separate lesson on this on how to make your arpeggios go from nice good sounding to Pro level so check that out as well in the description Okay, so this is about an octave displaced arpeggio and we've displaced the Note at the low point or in the left or the bottom note Let's now displace it from the top note or the high note if you will so I need to re-angle my fingers a bit Taking B there and I can do start with the high note high middle low middle high middle low middle Now this sounds nice Doesn't sound very unique So to make it unique take the high note find its octave What is this note B find B here and try to? Displace the B every alternate time. So B G E G B G E G B G E G B G E G right another interesting sound Then and then Those are your cards, so let's try and play this up to speed Right so for the most part you could take one of the notes of your chord L and create a unique arpeggio by Taking that note and playing it up an octave or you can take the top note and put that down an octave right or if you just take the bottom note and take it up an octave and you know alternate that that itself should sound very unique and very interesting it creates a very guitar like or a banjo like or a finger style kind of chord arrangement pattern right because these instruments like the guitar or the banjo or a mandolin They have a lot of strings and people play them with three or four fingers And they are able to look at all sorts of finger permutations and when we play chords again, it's three or four notes So it's important to just get accustomed to things which you would find string players do and this whole technique Pretty much came from what string players do right you would observe guitar players doing this bread and butter for them. It's just a standard pattern and We just try to play it. We just try to follow them and create a unique sound and I think this approach is very logically Understandable because it's the same note is just copied up and that makes it unique because the pitch gets displaced Right guys again. This is Jason here from Nathaniel. Thanks a ton for watching this lesson And if you haven't already, please make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel turn on the bell icon for Notifications and share the lesson with all your friends. Cheers