 Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel, welcome back. In part two, we are going to basically take the same set of five notes. If you haven't watched part one, do head over and check it out. It's a very important exercise where I've taken a fusion scale and played it on pretty much all the keys, pretty much all the twelve keys. So you can go over there and watch it if you haven't already. In part two, we are going to talk about improvisation and very organic improvisation using just your voice and the piano of course. So what I propose you do now is practice your left hand to just go what it used to do in part one, up and down on this scale, which is Saga Mapa Nipa Maga Sa Flat 7 there, one, seven, one, three, four, five, seven flat, five, four, three, one. Now, how do we begin our process of improvisation? First we need to have the ability to play something in the right hand which doesn't interfere with that left hand, right, or doesn't stop the left hand. So start with single roots, maybe a semi-brieve, they all work. Try to stick on the scale, but start with simple notes. Try to sing that, can copy, paste that. Once you do semi-brieves, try to build it maybe to minims or half notes. That means one and two, two notes for every melody. What do you do after half notes, quarter notes, pulse, if your left hand is spinning, take a break from time to time, if your mind is a bit fried up, simplify the right hand. Whatever you want, develop the process organically, okay. So now, moving forward, also focus a bit on your lagatos and staccatos. So if you take like a long, long follows shot, still on the scale, also play the scale in different shapes, you could go start from the third, so that's the default. Start with this shape, start with this shape, from A, almost every pentatonic scale because it has five notes, it will have five positions. So that's another way to get your improv going. You can stay on the position and not play what the left hand is playing. Just think of that hand position and improvise only in that region. This is this shape, start with the G position, start with the A position. Before you jumble the notes, it's going to sound a lot better than the C position. So far, we've done two basic improvisation techniques and hand independence at the same time where you try to graduate your speed of rhythmic notes where long, shorter, shorter, like that, go to the pulse, then go sub beats. Then we looked at the idea of hand positions which are five for each scale, especially the pentatonic scale in this case. The next thing I'd like you to do is bring in your voice. So what I propose we do just for a few moments in this lesson is I will try and sing something and then we will try and play that together. So this will be a constant. I'll try and sing something and sing it for a bar and then play it the next bar. So if I do play, revise that on the key. Sometimes it's either your fingers acting up wrong finger position or the other concern would be you just can't get the rhythm of what you sang. So either the notes or the rhythm could confuse you. So it's a great way to get better as a pianist. See, I forgot what I just sang. So let me try and sing something else. Is this sound like that smoke on the water or something? Anyway, so if you like a rhythm or if you ripped off something really famous as smoke on the water, milk it for all its worth. See what's happening eventually is I'm singing and I don't even know what's coming first is becoming a chicken and egg situation between the voice and the piano. It's almost like given an option you'll sing with this voice or you'll sing with this voice. So you're trying to make the piano more part of you, you know, so sing, try to match that perfectly. It's not easy. So it's going to take you some time to match it first try and match what I'm doing. That's our memory also out if you ask me is my memory. Now I'm making mistakes because it's tough. I've slowed that down, right? See, I could get that in the right, but I struggle in the left so more practice got there. Some weird dotted stuff. You may be able to catch that but executing that with this left hand is the hurdle. That's why we are piano players, we have chosen this profession. So I like that rhythm for some reason so I'm going to now milk it so this process can go on and on. So I'm just going to do two things before I conclude the lesson guys for part one first of all we did all of our finger exercises and so on part two we looked at these improvised improvisation ideas first off playing long notes then getting into positions and then being able to sing and catch what you sing. So what I'm trying going to do at the end of this part is I'll just try and sing something and keep it as simple as possible and leave the space blank. So you will have to kind of fill in those blanks by playing exactly what I have sung. So yeah, you need to focus and you may want to rewind fast forward to that point even in a later stage and there is more. We have a Patreon page which has a lot of the assisting supporting media for all of our lessons. So what's going to happen is you're going to have those recordings waiting for you there. You're going to have the notation waiting for you there. You're also going to have the MIDI waiting for you there. So those are 10 fusion melodies which I've composed which will definitely help you. So I've taken some time I've composed it I've notated it and we've put it all on our Patreon channel. So two things to remember at the end of this do consider progressing this exercise on Patreon with more defined 10 fusion exercises and now we are going to basically copy what I sing. I'm going to sing then I'm going to keep absolutely quiet and then you have to play. 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