 Hi everyone welcome to another lesson on arpeggios and in this lesson We are going to look at what I call as pattern arpeggios or arpeggios built using rhythm devices In this lesson, we are going to basically look at a time field or the way the beat is Divided the beat could be divided by two units by three units or by four units And then we look at the entire division system create a permutation And that becomes an arpeggio, okay? I'm going to break this down step by step for you And this is part of an entire series which we are doing on how to make arpeggios sound unique cool refreshing and Original if you will right so we have four chords in this lesson. I've used these chords in other videos as well We have E minor We have G major D major and Finally a major part of a Dorian progression if you will Very epic rock sounding Right so commonly used arpeggio patterns will end up being that LMHM just something everyone plays Right in fact, I've done a lesson on three of the most commonly used Arpeggio patterns should check that out as well if you're not too sure if you haven't played arpeggios that often I'd suggest you watch those videos Okay, so those are common patterns. You just start from the bottom Or you start from the top And you get patterns right so what we do with rhythm devices or Pattern pattern based arpeggios will be let's say I'm now going to divide the beat by four So I go Dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba one E and a two E and a three and a four E and a Now if you want to play a note for every one of those sub beats you'll end up with Which is very common. It's very redundant and everyone plays this right if you'd Yeah, it's not very unique So one E and a two E and a dozen You can just sort of clear the way or cut through the bushes if you will by not playing one of those sub beats Maybe I would like to cut off the E of the bar. So what happens there? It'll be one and a two and a three and a four and a So you essentially need to keep that pattern going so we've taken a beat beat one Knocked off the E So what was once one E and a two E and a three and a four E and a will now be One and a two and a three and a four and where the E is silent. So what was once? all the divisions played can now be one E and a two E and so So it creates a very interesting groove. I would perhaps call this like a gallop rhythm, right? Dumptom Can imagine a medieval movie where someone's on a horse and galloping so you go Right, so if you get used to this technique, you can use this whenever you want You know in a song or you can use it in combination with something common or redundant for example, if I take That which is common which is just what we play I Combine that with the gallop Gallop Right, so with the gallop you're doing you keep that rhythm in mind You keep one motif if you will in mind tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup, tup Either play that that sounds quite interesting on its own or combine it with something else you would combine it with something like the original commonly used pattern or Right, you're combining it with something which you already know which is But to break out of that to break out of that monotony you can go Either do the the boring normal one and then the gallop Or do the gallop and then the normal one like And There are so many rhythms you can do right there are a lot of permutations It's just you have to ask yourself the question where to play and where to not play So for example, if I want to create an arpeggio phrase by not playing the one itself, right? Dad dad dad dad dad dad dad dad dad that e and e and e and so you're not playing the one one of the bar, so I like that Cuz anyway the 1 2 3 4 could come from the base from the left hand it creates a nice compliment between the two hands Also gives the music a lot more air to breathe as opposed to playing something like Sounds very jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj and music So, you could again combine that rhythmic phrase with the everything or the common one or play the X tick tick tick or the off, on, on, on and then do everything. Now, what if you could take two of these unique phrases, let's say tick, X, tick, tick, that is play, don't play at the one, play the and play at the don't play at the E. So, there'll be dub, dubber, dubber, dubber, dubber, very Gallop like. So, you could combine that maybe with dub, dubber, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh. So, tick, X, tick, tick and then X tick tick tick, right? If you look at the visual. So, it'll be tub, tubber, tubber, tubber, tubber, tubber, immediately I'm enjoying that let alone an arpeggio. I am imagining it as anything, it could be a drum groove, it could be a melody, it could be a riff, it could be a lyrical thing you are writing, whatever it could be. But right now we are playing arpeggio, so let's do da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da-ba-da. I'd encourage you to vocalise it first before you execute it on the instrument. So da-ba-ba-ba-da-da. So you can do so many things when you divide and then remove one out of the divisions. So when you divide by four, we've got so many options to play around with. I've shown you a couple, you can also do this by dividing the beat by three, which is also really cool. So how do we divide by three? You can say one and a two and a three and a four and a one and a two and a three and a spirit. Da-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. So that's your triplet world. Let's be in this world and first let's play a triplet arpeggio itself over the progression. Sounds nice, right? But again, it sounds common. It's something people play. So the first thing you can do now is not play certain things. For example I can not play the middle beat so it will be like a swing rhythm or a shuffle rhythm if you will. So it will be swinging or you can play the one and the end so one and two and a. Let's see how that goes. On its own it may sound a bit confusing but then if you combine it with a few other rhythms like maybe the swing, da pa da da, da pa da da, da pa da da, da pa da. What did I do there? Tick X, tick tick tick X. So that will be if you are playing like Eastern folk music or a lot of the Indian music which we have I think this rhythm will work quite well. So tick X, tick tick tick X or feel it once you have mapped it out feel the rhythm. Of course I am getting carried away but you get the idea. The whole thing is get two of these permutations together, two unique rhythmic devices like tick X, tick meets tick tick X or else do tick X, tick meets tick tick tick meets everything the normal version something like that. Even that sounds quite cool. So essentially permutations. So if you have a division of three that's going to be two raised to three that's eight permutations you're going to have eight unique rhythm or eight rhythmic motifs if you will to express yourself as an arpeggio in this case. If you divide by four you have a lot more you have 16 permutations of which a few are going to be really simple and maybe boring but there will be a lot of interesting rhythms you can create using this. So rhythmic devices or pattern based arpeggios again in a nutshell let's recap. You're trying to divide the beat either by four or you're dividing by three. If you divide by four one anna two anna three anna four anna don't play everything it'll sound very monotonous. So you do bump para bump para bump para bump para bump para bump para bump you get a very unique groove right there executed on the piano as an arpeggio then combine that unique flavor the gallop with something common and unique meets common will be unique because it is starting with something unique then yeah you can also divide by three get into the triplet world knock off some beats develop all your permutations combine those permutations together and you get an arpeggio which is going to hopefully be timeless which you can use hopefully in a song which you compose and hopefully people will remember the song because of the arpeggio pattern and not only because of the words or the melody or the singer's voice which are obvious right people should remember the song also because of what the piano player is doing that'll be quite cool so have fun with this lesson as always this is Jason here from Nathaniel like share subscribe comment anything else you'd like to do nice with this video and I will see you in the next lesson cheers