 Hi everyone this is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music. Welcome to part five. The last part in this series on how you can make a rather boring major scale pattern a lot more interesting. So we've done how you can add the timing of one note making it a lot more interesting and memorable. We've looked at accents using things like triplets and quintuplets where you divide the set by five or by three. Then we've looked at swing a very important jazz and blues performance methodology. Then we've looked at them all important clave. We've looked at the song clave and a few others in part four and now it's just pretty much an open playing field in this part where what I am proposing for y'all to do is you take a beat of music and divide that beat because any beat with the concept of time can be subdivided into endless amounts using just simple maths. We musicians tend to focus on division by two or three or four. If you divide by two it'll be one and two and three and four and divide by three one and a two and a three and a four and so those are the the mnemonics we use you divide by four one and a two and a three and a four and so essentially the speed of each beat remains the same speed whatever the tempo was maybe it's 80 bpm or 60 bpm while the division makes more options exist because you can pretty much divide time by anything. So if you take one beat in a time feel as I call it so let's say you're dividing by four and you go one and a two and a three and a four and a and you observe one of those beats you don't have to play one and a two and a three and a four and a one and this feels a bit too cluttered up there's like too much happening it's not very musical so you know as the great Mozart said music is the silence between the notes so let's put some silence you can do one e could be silent one e and a the and could be hit so one e and a two e and feels like a kind of a feels like one of those cartoon network shows right like a gallop like some horse is moving you know forward it's like nice music for a horse I guess so if you imagine that and vocalize it perhaps it's like a play a don't play and two plays in that space of one beat so it'll be maybe start with just one note right you could call this the gallop and you go you'll find it weirdly way more challenging than doing you know just shredding the major scale up and down in fact I can sort of showing off right now that I can talk to you people while playing that particular thing but it's actually brainless there is no brain involved it's just mechanics you know so when you have to just remove one subbeat one little beat from the bigger beat from the main beat it really plays with your mind and it really forces you to practice and respect time which is very important for rhythm so you go pump you'll have to slow it down now what if I combine the gallop with just something very mundane and normal like what did I do now one e and a two e and so two e and I just didn't do the ease and the ears making it less energetic and it's just the main beat and the half beat at halfway point beat you'll observe one thing very cool even though it may be easier to play it's a lot more interesting to hear right if you try playing this for your friend or someone at home I'm sure they like this a lot more with some chords so it's just automatically a way to make melodies or it's like a universal set of options where you go up and down the entire scale so melody for all we know has a lot of rhythm going on for it and you just have to possibly not go all the way up and all the way down create a few sub variations or smaller subset movements and you may like what you play and you could use it in a song I hope okay and that was about the division by four time feel you could also do over the divide by three time feel which is a triplet so instead of doing one triplet one triplet one which we did in part number two if you followed right hopefully you guys have watched all the four parts it'll be nice if you have coming then to this part which sort of concludes it if you haven't already do check out all the links in the description with triplets what can we do we can do something like da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da ba ba ba ba ba you have all these different interplays of triplet permutations and again you hold your shape you don't you don't alter the motion ascending and descending you know as opposed to what you may be wanting to do now you may be wanting to have more fun melodically but the fun of of this exercise or the challenge of this exercise is to hold your melodic ordering while adding the flavour of rhythm to the entire equation and thus really conditioning your ear and hopefully improving your rhythmic theory and also improving your technique because you will have to really think with which finger you are playing. It is no longer a mechanical pattern so to speak so something like I quite like just playing with triplets you know and improvise and see where it goes. So in a sense there is a lot of improvisation going on. It is just that there is no improvisation of notes because the note choices are fixed. There is a ton of rhythmic improvisation going on here. So that is another very important thing I wanted to convey in this series that improvisation is not about only the chord tones or the modes or the fancy tensions and jazz embellishments and stuff. It is just also about rhythm. In fact rhythm is the foundation of it all. So you saw what we did. We went from which cannot be used for anything, anything musical to something like. Right everyone hope you found our five part tutorial series interesting. If you did please share the video and our channel with all your musician friends. Turn on that bell for notifications whenever we release a new video or perhaps a riff. 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