 Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music in this lesson. We are going to basically develop hand independence and using very real-world musical examples a Composition which I have created with some nice chords. So first off, we'll have a melody in the right hand which you heard in the intro video And then we are going to add a lot of flavor in the left hand to support the melody in the right hand With chords with chords with a very unique rhythm pattern We are going to have all this notated for you. It will be handwritten for the most part We'll also notate it wherever we can and it will be available on our patreon page patreon.com Slash Jason Zach and on that you will find all the handwritten notes of this lesson stuff We've done in the past there are quite a few hundreds of lessons which are waiting on patreon and Also stuff we are going to do in the future will continue to be on patreon So do consider being a member and you have different tires there to choose from as well if you'd want to Upgrade it and so on and so forth. So let's get cracking with the exercise guys before we do It'll be great if you could subscribe to our channel by hitting and hitting that bell icon for regular notifications Let's go. So let's learn the melody first. I've chosen it on the D minor scale Okay, and the tune is very simple in the right hand we can learn it together It'll be nice if you could if you don't have a keyboard with you right now Perhaps pause the video get a keyboard practice with me And stay till the very end because you'll have to keep growing and after the lesson is over You can kind of adapt this on your own take your own time do it over a week or two or more At your own leisure, but try to get the exercise done. So as I'm explaining it will be good if you practice along so melody So you could play it like that Could probably bring back your middle finger to the G or cross your thumb like this right so or Bring back your middle like this That's your melody and we will make we won't change the melody throughout the lesson now coming to the left hand The first thing I'd like to do is just introduce Just this three minor cluster three note minor cluster Can play it even lower that'll be nice Okay, just D ENF But before we do that it'll be nice So I'm gonna develop stages of your hand independence in this lesson and if you're used to our channel You will find that we've done a lot of videos on hand independence It's the most important Subject if you think about it for a piano player because everything else is data information and Stuff you concepts from a theory book which you execute on a piano like how to play a chord But hand independence is something you just have to keep doing and that's why on this channel we focused a lot on this on the concept of Getting one hand to do something and the other hand to do something else and the best way to improve your mindset With regards to that is to practice hard or at least practice one hand really hard and then the other hand can kind of Think and be creative while the hand which has practiced hard can kind of be an autopilot mode so The left hand. Let's first start with a pulse Just a root of the scale so There we go So assuming the right hand is playing eight notes for the most part Except the last one which is a 16th Now the left Just start with the root playing pulse Now with the pulse you can kind of also grow this by doing root and octave toggle that would be nice Pushes you to think a bit more right Now you can even toggle with other notes like the fifth Or what I like is the is the third the minor third since we are on minor All on the pulse by pulse I mean crotch it's quarter notes or the way the head of the Listener and the musician you playing it would move right your head goes Whether you like it or not so that's what you need to first execute in your left hand to develop hand independence And now moving forward you can also try doing eighth notes in the left hand That's quarters That's eight so eights are almost the same as your right hand Quavers As they are also called Toggling with the minor third And you could toggle between quavers and crotchets or quarter notes and eighth notes if you will so Pulse Then it's quavers Dividing the pulse by two Now back to pulse So that's the first thing you need to practice the pulse and then the speeding up pulse and Don't don't forget to also practice the pulse, but played a lot slower. So that would be Minims or half notes For some reason that can be a bit tricky as opposed to Quarters which are quite easy actually Once you get it Half notes take a little bit of thinking So you could actually toggle between all these levels of beat division You're going on the beat the way the listeners head is moving one two three four Then you're dividing the beat by two Quavers or eighth note that ten two and three and four and longer than the pulse which goes one two three four one two three four, right? So you could start with that and then now Let's do a few rhythms Instead of just doing toggling we can just do one two three The one the major two and the minor third in the left hand so And the rhythm I have for you is first of all Two quavers and a crotchet So Now you could do this with Sarega or one two three flat or One three flat and a five which is essentially a minor chord played as this bass line so one and two and three and four and one and two so at two you play a crotchet and Two and three and so one and and three and will be quavers or eighth notes and the two and the four will end up being crotchets or pulse notes or quarter notes and The note choices you can do would either be one two three One three flat five or you can even expand it and do one five What I like to do what we call is spread chords Which is one five and flat three on the top so So practice all three or at least the first two if you can which is chord Spread chord There we go Now we can progress from this rhythm One and two two the end of the two and later on the end of the four so pump pump You're trying to squeeze three notes basically into four four subdivisions. That's one and two and Four sub beats. You're trying to squeeze three notes So one more way to create a permutation would be And so practice Now you feel the independence being a bit more tricky right so you want to get this first Should be at the back of your head. It should be like very very subconscious one and so Spread God What are the other options? You don't have to do one and two or two and you can do one two and one So Another another challenge for you on the hands in fact when I started talking you saw I made a small mistake there So it's not very easy. You need some practice There we go and Certain points of the exercise will be tricky because the melody is fixed your left hand is not fixed. It's changing so One two and three four and there we go So again, we are starting on the one And we've pretty much covered all we don't one and and two. We've done one two and And of two we've done one and in the end of two as well Then you can always challenge yourself further by doing one and two and three and four And you can do start the next one at the end of the three one So you're kind of doing it differently one and two and four and There we go Mix mix it up as well. See what you can do, right? So this is all using pretty much quavers or eighth notes to build up your hand independence now I have a couple more variations before we are done with the lesson that will you may be guessing it use 16th notes instead of quavers or Eighth note so with 16th notes You're gonna count one e and a two e and a three and a four e and a one e and a two e and a right Four e and a one e and a two. So if you want to catch stuff You're gonna access more subdivision so one nice thing to practice is the thresio Very famous salsa or a Latin pattern which goes something like this It's a two beat phrase so One e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a one e and a two e and a three so So if you want to get this independence gonna take you some time one thing I would suggest is See if you can sing the melody which you're eventually gonna play in the right hand so And so on right Apologies for my sore throat, but I think you can do this much better than me at least at the moment so Once you finished singing it with the thresio pattern in the left you could attempt playing it playing and singing would be nice, you know, so forked God Dry in the left and spread this is the pattern quite groovy on its own Anyway that's the thresio so I have one more 16th note pattern which I Ended up coming up with the excited So, I have one more 16-note pattern which we'll sign off the video with which goes 1-E & 2-E & 3-E & 2-T & 2-E & 2-E & 2 You're on of the 2. This is the deal. Very different than playing 8th notes. There we go. That's how it sounds in isolation with the chord. Spread. So these are pretty much the patterns and one more variation if you like to do. Instead of starting it, repeating or copy pasting it, you can do it at the E of the three. One E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a one E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a. And I'm ending with a five with an A just for fun. So a few melodic and harmonic embellishments we can do or just to close out the exercise and make it sound musical, make it something like you could play at a gig hopefully. So first off in the right hand you could do stuff like you can do thirds, you can add some harmony. If you want to play the natural minor you could end on C. Harmonic minor you could end on the C sharp. Harmonic. Natural, right? With the rhythm in the left. So that could spice things up. You could also add like a chord progression in the left hand. Like B flat. C major. Stuff like G minor. B flat. Major. C C major. C major. With the spread versions of the chords. Do the tressio if you want. You can kind of improvise. Improvise on the notes but don't change the rhythm structure or the rhythm pattern. If you can, right? And feel free to also transpose it to a few scales. If you're working on your piano transposition skills, feel free. Like you could do or try to fool around and move it to different scales. So we've added some harmony in the right hand. The potential to transpose it. Different chords. So you can find some of this stuff. A lot of this stuff. Most of the stuff in the notation which we have for you. My hand written notes on Patreon. And like I said at the beginning of the video we do a lot of videos on hand independence. So do consider checking out a lot more videos on hand independence. And I'm sure in those videos my voice won't sound this bad. I was very excited to do this lesson. Didn't want to take a huge break. So you'll have to deal with my sore throat throughout the lesson. But yeah, do check out some of the other hand independence exercises. And if you'd like more structured learning at our school, you would consider filling up a form or going to our website, Nathanielschool.com and accessing our video courses for a one time fee. You can get structured video lessons. And you can also learn with me in person. We have virtual courses where you can choose an hourly or a set of hours over six months and join our school, not just for piano, even for vocals, guitar and more. Right guys, thanks a ton for watching the video. Again, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel. Cheers.