 Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music and in this lesson We are going to look at how to play arpeggios on the piano arpeggios are the most popular and most common ways to play your chords very different than just Wacking them all together you play them in a nice flowing manner almost melodic manner if you will Where each note of the chord is played one by one in this lesson We are going to look at three of my go-to arpeggio patterns for anyone playing the piano from myself to you Maybe a beginner an intermediate or an advanced player these arpeggio patterns are going to work really great So let's get started right away and in this lesson. I'm going to choose four chords for pretty much the whole thing We are going to do E minor G major D major and A major Okay, I repeat E minor G major D major and a major and as you'll observe we are playing these chords as Inversions in order to shift well and in order to voice lead well so that the movement between each chord is nice and smooth So you go E minor to G like this why You'll observe that G is the common note and B is a common note between the chords So why change the common notes? You could do E minor and G major like this and then when I want to do D major which is next I find that D is in common, right? So we go D F sharp a Okay, and lastly a major you can either go down here or You can go up here, right? Again a is in common, right? So try to play chords close to each other in simple words You can watch a lot of our videos which we've already done on chord inversions Which will help you shift between chords a lot more quicker on the piano a chord is not just E minor played like that you can play it like this like this Or like this you have so many ways of playing a particular chord So it's important to have these options at your disposal before you play chords or arpeggios or anything to do with harmony Okay, so coming back to the chords E minor G major D major a Major you could play like that or I would prefer something easier Can play it like that e ac sharp so I'm calling it out in order e gb dgb df sharp a e ac sharp This is also what we could call as a Dorian chord progression because one might argue That this follows the e Dorian scale however, the e Dorian scale will be Derived from the D major scale the normal D major scale. We call it the second mode We will definitely do a video on mode shortly, which you could follow. Okay, so E minor G major D major and a major very popular chord progression I'm sure you've heard it in green days boulevard of broken dreams or imagine dragons is radioactive and Mad world, you know, so there are a lot of songs which use this now coming back to the point of the lesson The point of the lesson is to show you three very very tried and tested go to default great sounding arpeggio techniques and all of this revolves around you taking the chord and playing the notes one finger at a time and Seeing which one you like best and then trying to Emote it and try to play it with as much feeling and expression as possible. So if you take the e minor chord Instead of holding it down with all the three fingers and arpeggio could be made by just playing the notes one by one So I go one two three Four and generally when we play arpeggios at the bare minimum, they are played double of the pulse so If this is the pulse we need to play double one and two and three and four and so tongue tongue tongue So this is how your hand is going to move while this is the pulse pulse means this is how you count to the song This is how the audience is going to move to the song and so on so I'm just going to show you all the three arpeggios on just the e minor chord and then we'll get cracking. So the first arpeggio is starting from the low note the middle note The high note and then coming back to the middle note. I call this in simple abbreviations as l m h m so Or left middle right middle if you want to look at it in directions. So l m h m l m h m l m h So get used to this and move it to the pulse. So one and two and three and agreed one and two and three try to play along with me two three four one and two and three and four and Two we are going to choose the other chords very shortly. So hang on Let's first get e minor going and in the left hand you could just play e or the name of the chord, which is e in the case of e minor e minor e minor Okay, and this is the moving chord in the right hand a moving chord which I which we also call as an arpeggio So the other arpeggio pattern. What have we looked at so far? We've looked at l m h m So the other arpeggio pattern would be H m l m you just start at the top Go down and then go back up and then you create a loop of four notes Or a repetition or a recurrence of four notes High middle low middle high middle low, okay high middle So with high middle low middle and even low middle high middle What's happening is the first note is something you could consider to sustain with the finger. So if you are doing high here It's a nice practice to hold your finger down for the high if you're a beginner on the piano It's okay. You could just go and lift it no problem, but you may not want to play it like Like this this is not a great tonality because it sounds very staccato and choppy if you will So another a good way to see if you're doing it Well is to look at your fingers and just make sure a few things are in order One is the fingers are not randomly in the air your fingers don't Drop down, you know a flatten itself out They should generally be healthy like this and keep them all touching the keyboard surface. So you go And try to avoid dropping your hand and try to avoid Lifting your fingers Basically make it look like any pianist which you follow like anyone who you think you like or is professional They'll generally play like this Okay, if you can hold the high so what have we learned so far low starting on the low l m h m Then starting on the high Right another pattern which I wanted to sneak into the lesson would be where you started the high note Which in this case is b Go to the low note e middle note g And come back low This is one of my favorites So again hold the high if possible And try out different finger combinations. It's not mandatory that you use a specific finger ordering See how it goes because finger combinations are dependent on the next chord So we have to see what the next chord is and then our fingers will be customized accordingly Okay, so let's now do this for all the four chords of the progression This epic rock dorian progression if you will so we go e minor I'm showing you with the low note starting l m h m What's the next chord g major which I am playing like this. All you do is move your thumb down e minor come down to d g b g major third chord d major d f sharp a and slide up Slide the thumb up keep this on a use your ring finger for the c sharp Let's do it again e minor g major d major last chord e major e major And two ways of playing a major. I guess you could stick with that. So Let's bring in the left hand now the left hand basically plays the name of the chord the root of the chord Which ultimately gives you the purpose or the sound of the chord e for e minor g for g major D for d major a for a major. Let's see how it goes e minor g major g in the bass d major d in the bass a major a in the bass e minor e in the bass g major g in the bass d major d in the bass a major a in the bass and back to okay play along l m h m And once you're done and dusted with l m h m you could also do starting with the high which is h m l m starting on the b in the case of e minor. Let's see how that goes starting on the high of each chord with the bass h m l m h m l m h m l m h m Play along So Keeping the left hand nice and simple just playing octaves of each note No great rhythm with the arpeggio. Let it do its thing at least in this lesson the last one high low middle low Let's see how that goes high low middle low and always when you practice these arpeggios do it slow with the pulse and then develop a nice mechanical motion which kind of gets registered by your subconscious mind So you can play this anytime of the day Even when you just about wake up or just about to sleep you can still play this arpeggio, you know That's high low middle low high l m l h l right, so Right, so let's recap the lesson guys. We have four chords e minor g major d major a major and we are playing this really really popular epic rock progression on the dorian scale if you will And used in a lot of songs strangely enough We think that the one five six fours or those things are more common That's more in pop music or electronic dance music and stuff like that But in rock songs, this is more common if you think about it. So it's good to learn this you can play a variety of music Right, so the three arpeggio patterns are l m h m It's just an ordering of notes the next arpeggio pattern will be h l m l And the last arpeggio pattern will be h l m l And while you practice this I would encourage you to try and hum something Sing a melody compose a melody sing an existing song. There are so many which work with this Also try to play the arpeggios with a lot of dynamics And character right guys. Thanks a ton for watching our lesson in the next lesson We are going to look at a lot of ways to make the existing arpeggio patterns l m h m h m l m and h l m l A lot more dynamic a lot more organic and a lot more human and less Robotic and programmed if you will so work on this lesson really hard get used to your chords the changing inversions And also just coordinating your two hands what to play here and what to play there And then head over to the next lesson It's very important that you watch the next lesson Which will take the arpeggio playing to the next level if there are x amount of people in a playing field Playing these arpeggios. 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