 Hi guys this is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music. I teach piano at the school and in this short lesson which I plan to divide into two parts. The first part well both parts essentially focus on how to make a simple arpeggio pattern more foxy or folkish. I don't know what the right word is but you get the idea to sound like a folk song okay. So the first technique involves you playing the arpeggio with your left hand and jamming with the right hand. The second technique is a flip where the left right hand does the arpeggio and the left hand creates the folk effect. So both arpeggio hands are going to play something you probably already know right. So if I take let's say a D major chord in my left hand I'm sure you've used this pattern a lot. So it's a very nice pattern but in a song where there's already a singer and you don't need to play a melody line per se you can use your right hand and literally any finger any note in the in the diatonic to the key and get this sort of an effect. Keep the chord going. The way I'm counting this is if these are eighth notes if you don't know what an eighth note is even that is fine just count with me 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and so the and essentially divides the beat by 2. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and however I can also divide the beat by 4 right. For example 1e and 2e and 3e and 4e and 1e and 2e and 3e and 4e and 1e and 3e and so on. So the ease and the urge or the 25% division of the beat and the 75% division of the beat could be implemented or could be captured in the right hand because it's not being captured in the left hand. The left hand is playing eighth notes straight eighth notes. So if I count 16s 1e and 2e and let me get the urge 1e and 1e and 2e and 3. You know I do it all the time actually even all the times on school but perhaps you can let it go for beat 2 hit the ear of the 1 and hit the ear of the 3. Let me count it with you 1e and 2e and 3e so this is the feel and you can add your right hand creativity alongside this groove to popular songs as well or any such thing I mean there's just a trick to to just get anything to sound a bit more focused and yeah or a bit more eastern well not entirely eastern this could even be like a bluegrass song so artists to listen to you should definitely listen to this band Bela Fleck and the Flecktones he's an incredible banjo player and I think this entire technique is influenced by that band and his style of playing and listen to their songs and watch their stuff on YouTube and another band which you can check out is Mumford and Sons which also has that that bluegrass kind of feel and you can also listen to some of my songs there's I'll put a link up in the comments it's called the Sun Rises in the autumn sky so that's a song which pretty much has the same pattern and I keep using the same pattern and in a lot of my music so again let's see the pattern once more take an arpeggio low note high note middle note high note that's the pattern l h m h perhaps hold the l with the pinky and find the uh one e and a two don't hit all the us so you could also focus on the ease maybe an e and an uh so you take the e I think the urs are more popular the bands I suggested are all pretty much on the urs of the beat I don't see why you can't use the e it has the same vibe okay and in the next short lesson we're gonna talk about the other way around where the right hand will be playing the same a similar arpeggio and the left hand's going to groove on the e and the ur which I'm sure you already pretty much know but we'll try and do it with a swing groove so it's a little bit different for you guys when you practice right again this is Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music and if you like the lesson make sure to subscribe to our youtube channel and enable notifications which is that bell button for a lot more lessons coming your way and do share our videos with your friends as well cheers