 Hi guys this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this lesson we are going to learn how to develop hand independence or hand coordination as well as improvise on the piano. So a lot of the times we do hand coordination or hand independence workouts they are always portrayed as exercises. So in this particular lesson I hope to give you something creative and not only give you something which you have to play with me through the lesson but also hopefully motivate you to create your own concepts or your own structures or your own patterns and phrases along the way. So the primary creative goal for you would be to explore your right hand and the left hand is going to hold like a chord pattern a very simple chord pattern. So without any delay let's get cracking how I normally like to teach my lessons is you need to get your pianos out keep it on keep it ready be as loud as me or around the same volume and if you can all of these exercises all of these patterns as we flow through the lesson are notated for you and waiting for you on our patreon page head over there it's a lot of notation so it might help for you to read it and play along it's just a five dollar per month subscription and that doesn't only give you this lesson it gives you everything we've done before in the past and whatever we are going to do in the future and it'll be awesome if you can hit that subscribe button and that bell which will give you like the regular notifications and updates for our lessons and if you like the lesson at the end of it all do consider giving the video a like and leave us a comment with anything you'd like us to teach you in the future and also what you thought about this particular lesson right guys let's get cracking so in the left hand for the entire lesson we are just going to play a good old D minor chord just taking D minor I quite like it so you go in this particular arpeggio style so it's D A F A D A F A D yeah so the way I'm counting this arpeggio pattern would be L H M H L H M H and we are playing it in eighth notes where the beat is being divided into two units so one and two and three and four and so L H M H L so this is going to be or this is going to serve as the foundation for all of our efforts on the piano and the right hand is going to be creative so throughout this lesson I'm not going to be talking much I just want you to follow along and I want you to play along with me as I tell you what to play try to play and don't feel disheartened if you're not getting it with me there is definitely going to be the notation available and you can rewatch the video or you could just take a chunk out of the video there will be chapter markers so you can use that to kind of help you or hopefully that motivates you and pushes you to do all of the variations which I have for you don't miss out anyone so the left hand is sorted and until the end of the video the left hand is just going to play D minor which is DFA in the L low H high middle high fashion L H M H L that's pretty much it okay so now the right hand is going to go follow me you can sing along if you want the intervals are one two three in the D minor scale play along that's one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four okay now that we are acquainted with that let's go so we have so far now let's do then again now let's come down and then maybe let's keep fooling around let's repeat those things now starting on the F don't stop your left hand now descending la da da la da da and maybe now let's come a bit down and go something like this okay so that's two bars so that's a minimum in the beginning and then two quavers quaver, crotchet, semi-brief, two three four hold that and it's a semi-brief hold it down for four now you play along with me play okay one more tune coming your way la la la la la la so that's one and and three and come on don't lose your left hand another one don't worry too much about your fingers maybe you could start with the index slide down or maybe with your middle would work better on second thought if you want to assign a note to every finger come on or cross one more time don't forget the left hand is just doing this right okay come on one more so no one one so it starts on the two one two and three and four and one and two and three and wait one slightly tricky where the phrase is not at the one so here we go one more time simple notes okay so keep that going don't don't lose your left hand okay now we are going to get a little bit more tricky la la let's break down only the right hand so one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four so I'm dividing by four in the earlier instances I was just dividing by two because the melody didn't go into those one and a sixteenth note divisions right so the dotted quaver that dotted crotch it right one and a two and a one and a two and a dotted quarter note so one and a two and a three and a four and one and a two and a three one more time see the notation one and a two and a three and a four and if you don't read it's okay follow along please one and a two and a three and a four and one and two and only the melody without me mumbling okay only you sing along sing and play no no no no if singing is tough initially you can lose the left hand and get the singing to align with the right hand no compromises you need the left hand you need the singing and you need the right hand think of the right hand as the fruits or the flowers of a tree wherein you don't get those fruits or those flowers unless you have a strong foundation okay that's the left hand and that's singing with a lot of purpose so let's do another one this is a bit easy you you kind of skip three beats and go one and two and three and needs a little bit of discipline to not play the one so one and two and now da da da da da da that's that's so one again now so we can play the two melodies which we just recently learned we could call them as Dorian melodies because they go over the D Dorian scale kind of like playing C major but starting on D you get that very brave I love this scale anyway coming back so that's what we learned earlier and now and if you're finding it a bit overwhelming just play a single D but hold the pulse D four one and then the counter almost like a Q and A like a question and answer thing question and then the answer and you can have like the same answer if you wish repeat that's two answers to the same question like now this interests me so that answer maybe the call or the call and response question and answer the call could kind of be the same like you know and then you could have different answers or you could do a slightly different call or a slightly different question maybe maybe that so the original question was da da da da da remember that and the original answer was which came in at the three of the bar let's do that once more you play along I'm going back to my arpeggio answer okay now I'm messing with the question how did that change now C B A B C D C B A B C D so earlier it was C B A B G A now so notes are changing slightly at the end it's a minor change but it makes the melody speak out and carry forward you know a communication or a story and we are retaining the same rhythmic patterns you don't have to worry about the rhythm the rhythm is pretty much the same same as don't worry too much about fingering you can land at it somewhere and then original then and then maybe the answer could be instead of you can even climb there if you wish so we have then let's put that together a lot of options as you can see even if we retain the rhythm pattern a lot of options now hi sir do that again sir okay so that could work one question another kind of question what were the original ones again then it changed to stuff like that and then original answer another modification okay let's try a few more options this is getting to be a bit of fun so quite like that I'm just on the scale just messing around with different note combinations same rhythm flat seventh if you like now you have to figure out fingering I would play that way and the earlier one which I came up with you need to cross to the G or the F the third flat then maybe that's quite easy so different question different answer slightly even another one there we go okay let's change this let's play something else try and follow along okay that's one tune and that's a small modification F G A F C A F G A F D A so let's keep it simple first with just quavers or eighth notes let's not do any dotted we'll try and modify it shortly there will be a lot of variations there are a lot in my head so let's see what comes out it's also quite natural even for me doing this lesson come to think of it so okay play that so that's one two and three and four and modification the modified modifications are C A or D A Neepa or Sapa Haissa now let's mess with that check this out so I'm taking my C at the end of the bar at the forehand of the bar that leaves me to play that A at the one of the next bar I'm not anticipating it like how I did earlier like earlier was and two and three and four and four and and it ended and then I held it on hence the tied note now one and two and three and four and one same thing with a higher D that's a dotted at the C or just before the C rather again and speed it if you wish or slow it down if you wish let's do another variation okay that's a bit weird let me count it for you one and two and three and four and one and two so it's the end of the next bar not on the one on the end it's slightly trickier because your left hand does not move and two and three and four and one and two two of the ends let's do it with the D none and two and three and four and one and two and three so we've come a long way so far I think three and four and one and two and three one more time let's come up with another variation I think one and two one and two okay I like that quicker semi quaver one and two and a three and four and one and two two of the ends okay one and two and a three one and two and three you still keep the ends one and two and pretty much it one more time slowly one and two and a three and four and one and four and now okay now let's like kind of bring it all together and do something like this one one maybe three counts of the first note one so at the four you're gonna have a four semi quaver cluster and two do it with the D so just get the fingering of what I'm doing clearly one so I'm just moving my pinky up so let's try one more variation this is gonna be fun one let me come up with it first one so that's like a dotted quaver at the beginning one and like a thresio one and that rhythm slightly tricky and the gap is important I've kept the gap so that your mind can kind of refresh itself and you know prepare for the next one otherwise if there are too many notes I think it may get cluttered if you're new to this stuff keep that one and a two and a three and a four we've come from there to maybe something like you can even do like a takita takita junu takita it just helps with the counting process don't lose the left hand and now you can create your own variations right so just that can give you a lot of time on the piano I feel so in conclusion with today's lesson I thought we'll bring in all or some of whatever we've learned so far melodically with these short phrases and just move the left hand a bit so the left hand chords I have for you in this lesson are well I'll change it around a bit D minor play that twice each chord twice then you can do this chord so all I'm doing is I'm moving my pinky to the C then C second chord third chord that's B G F G B G F G third chord and the fourth chord then you could drift towards B flat there so D A F A D now bring your pinky down now pinky even more down and the thumb comes to G this is like a G seventh over B and then I love this chord this is like a B flat major sixth just dropping the B to the B flat let's do that again D this is my left hand D minor F major B flat major sixth one more time play along with me slow sorry that's F major and now G over B B flat major sixth and bring in some of the old melodies remember this maybe this one then maybe variation and then bring in the answer make it more epic with the chords build up your dynamics get a bit louder let's do whatever you wish and if you're not following this improvisation or if you want to go through it a bit more there's a midi file available of pretty much whatever I'm playing so you could import it you could import it into your computers or your midi player app and see how it goes play pretty much the same melody okay so let's just have some fun with this for a few more seconds remember my left hand is playing the chords if you can shift to play these chords well and good if not just stick with our good old friend D minor okay and the basic tunes I think we've crafted throughout the lecture is you know right then we have that and then this one so you could kind of play around with that as well as the old melodies which I gave you in the very beginning which is like stuff like that simpler stuff so go through it in a sequence maybe later just gonna fool around for a few more seconds and see if you can sing a phrase a few ways to fool around well on the piano would be to maybe sing a phrase and then try to copy it on the keys so even though I left the scale I think it's fine sometimes you may not get it or just fool around without singing right so that's about it guys so like I said in the while I was talking at some point even I got lost and carried away here and there so like I said at the beginning or during the lesson all of the notes are available on our Patreon page and in this lesson we have notes which I have staff notated for you it's available as a printable pdf there's also midi files so whatever I played now is available as midi if you're interested if you want to like brainstorm it or scrutinize it further it's available for you as a downloadable thing on our Patreon so that's about it so I hope at the end of this lesson you have the you you you gain some confidence to improvise and coordinate your hands and also have a reality check this is what I can do at the moment as a piano player and this is what I need to do because you can't just play the right hand without the left hand on this instrument impossible you'll have to kind of choose another instrument then like the voice or the violin so try to improvise with always with something in the left hand or if you want to improvise in the left hand with something in the right hand right guys thanks are done for watching the lesson again this is Jason 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