 Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel. In this lesson, we are going to look at how you can build up your hand independence over a 16th note time division or time feel by playing two things or two different things rather in both your hands. So both your hands are going to do something different but both together will serve the chord progression of the song which is rather easy come to think of it. The right hand is going to play a chord rhythm pattern or a chord groove with a little bit of funky vibe if you will. This is used a lot in funk music while the left hand is just going to hold its ground by playing pretty much what a bass player is going to do. So let me just play you that a little bit more and just break it down from there on. So these are my two chords over a 16th note time feel, how am I counting this, one E and a two E and a three and a four E and a great way again is to use the shaker, one E and a two E and a three and a four E and a one E and a two E and a, so if I just do the right hand, you see what's happening there right in one bar I'm actually squeezing in two chords, what are the two chords, G minor 7th and C dominant 7th, how am I voicing it, G minor 7th played in the normal position, G Bb D F while the C dominant 7th in order to keep it close to the G minor 7th we use its inversion by playing G Bb C E, so we go G minor 7th and then C dominant 7th, G Bb C E, how am I playing the pattern, what did I do there, one E and a two E and a, so at the a of the two or just before beat three we are drifting towards the next chord which in this case is C dominant 7th, so it goes one E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a, what did I do at the a of the three, the on of the four and the and of the four, at the end of the cycle basically I didn't play the chords together, I think that would sound very aggressive and maybe a bit forceful, so what I did at the end of the bar is I broke up the chord like this, let's do that again, important to keep the pulse while you do this, so one E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a right, two, three, four, little difficult to count, you don't have to count it but at least feel it with the other hand, the key towards independence is you need to have the pulse running with you all the time, right, you can even practice this exercise in the shower or somewhere away from the keyboard and you get pretty much similar results, see I still have the pulse, so you go I'm breaking that C 7th chord at the end, so three stabs of G minor in the beginning, then two stabs of C 7th, let's do that, and then what happens, G, the remaining three notes of the C dominant 7th chord, B flat C E and then come back to G, so that creates a nice broken vibe which is great when you're playing faster stuff, so all together. So that's pretty much what you could do for pretty much the exercise, I'm going to also include two flavor chords at the end of the lesson to kind of just give you a turn around just to break the monotony of what's going on, I'll give you the turn around chord, so again, right, so let's look at the left hand now, whatever I did with my snaps as you see here, I'm going to try and execute in the left hand by playing a simple bass pattern akin to what a bass player in a group would do, so what would a bass player end up doing, so let's just do it over the G minor chord, G minor 7th chord and one E and a two E and a three and a four E and all the pulse notes which are the one and a two E and a three and a four E, right, two, three, four, pretty much just this on the pulse but don't just do G, G, G, G, you want to do G, D, G, D to create a very bass guitar like motion, it's exactly what a bass player would do in a group, okay, so this has to happen over the chords, again you need to get this as comfortably as possible or as independently as possible, this in a way is actually building up independence, you know just talking, checking your cell phone, reading your news feeds or reading the newspaper if you're more old school but yeah, whatever be the case, you need to be able to do other activities while focusing on the pulse, keeping the steady, steady, ostinato or unchanging pulse and now you have the ability to play the right hand pattern, this is not really a pattern, it's just a drone pulse, so you go, just do it over one chord for a start, G minor, remember at the end we break up the chord, right and keep it a bit staccato in the right hand and very legato in the left hand, that actually is another layer of independence, right, if you're able to do it great, it'll really enhance your playing, make it a lot more professional, if not just figure it out or just do staccato in both hands, that would also be great, so you go legato left and see I have a control over my right, I know what I want to play, I want to play the first one legato and the second two stabs staccato, so and then another legato somewhere there, right, so with the changing bass now, the bass will change as per the chord, so I go G, D, C, G, G, D, C, G, what happened there, the G is the root of the G minor 7th chord, D is the 5th and then C and its 5th which is who, G minor, C major, G minor 7th, C dominant, get it to tempo, very funky, right, try to sing something and when you're done with that or when you get a bit bored of just playing G minor 7th and C dominant 7th, you have two chords at the end or even one chord at the end which you could use as a turnaround, so you can go with an E flat dominant 7th, which I think is very bluesy so probably you'll do G minor and C, C major for three rounds and the fourth round you do what we call as a turnaround which is just something refreshing and something new and something which creates a nice running loop, so it goes three of these, G and C, G minor and C dominant and now, so what was that, that was an E flat dominant 7th with a F on the top, so that makes it a E flat 9th or an E flat 7th plus a 9 there, I think it makes it very bluesy and really nice I think right, but you could even do it with a stop and stop there, that's hit, hit, hit, hit, four hits of that last chord, stop and then back, recycle the job and turnaround and what was that chord again, E flat dominant, very mystical if you ask me, so another thing you can do if you don't want to stop with the E flat 9th chord is you could add another flavor, you can add the dominant chord of the progression which is basically the fifth in this case D, so you could either do D 7th or D 9th which is nice or what I like the most is to do like a flat 9, so how do we build that, D in the bass F sharp A C makes it a D 7th along with D flat 9 which I quite like, so it goes so the same thing with those new chords, what are they now, E flat 9th and then D 7 flat 9 or you can just do a D, D 9th but I kind of prefer the flat 9th sound so the last bar or the turnaround bar will be, again let's keep looping that and what does the left hand do, as usual root 5th, root 5th of each chord so the whole thing again, third time, last and loop so I've pretty much done with the lesson but what I'd like to do is play the whole thing really slow so you can follow along before I do, it'll be really awesome if you haven't already please subscribe to our channel do leave us a comment for stuff you'd like to learn, give the video a like, give the video a share to your individual profiles if possible and keep watching our channel, we'll be doing a lot more videos coming your way so I'm going to now conclude the lesson by just playing this riff really slow and what is this about again, what is going on, we're doing a pattern in the right hand the chords being G minor 7th and C dominant 7th with the turnaround remember being E flat 9th and then you end with a D 9th or you do a D 7 flat 9 or you can just do E flat 9th and stop there, we've looked at a few ways of doing it at the turn so let's just do the whole thing really slow, follow along, try to play along and I will see you guys in the next video