 Hi guys, welcome to part 2 in this lesson where we are trying to figure out interesting ways to play any scale be it major or minor or anything ascending and descending and train our rhythmic sensibilities and our year and our musicianship while doing so. So the second way involves different compartments or different groupings of notes. So normally when we play a scale going up or anything for that matter when we divide beats we tend to divide either by 2 or by 4 or by even numbers. So that's pretty much our mindset while doing stuff. So if we go G major now 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and you pretty much dividing by 2 but you could try dividing by 3 or working your way with triplets and not altering the movement of your hand. It just keeps going up and down but you're trying to do or feel 3. Let's see how that sounds and then I'll break it down. 1 triplet, 2 triplet, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3. It almost feels like a completely different melody right? Just because my mind is thinking 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3. Of course it'll be more obvious if I do but I don't want to make it this obvious because it should also be an exercise to kind of hold your ground with the scale you know just not change that or not alter that pathway. So you go 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3. You could count it in triplets and perhaps play 1 of the 3 in your left hand and start with a simple note like the G which is the root. 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3. And it doesn't really resolve or sort of recycle very soon. It's going to take a long long time for it to actually come back to where the starting G with your thumb was in fact at the 1 of the bar which is quite cool. So 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2. Finally ended there and yeah you could do some chords. Right so that's a triplet feel and you could try all sorts of other groupings if you want to try groups of 5, 2 3 4 5, 1 2 3 4 5, 1 2 3 4 5, 1 2 3 4 5, 1 2 3 4 5, 1 2 3 4 5. You can do all these groupings and try to hold your shape. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or you can even count 5 as 1, 2, 1, 2, 3 or 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, right, to break up the 5 even further, right, so the second way which I wanted to mention to make this major scale a lot more interesting just in that ascend and descend is to do it over different accents and you have a ton of opportunities in the left hand if you're a pianist to kind of embellish with chords, chord changes at the accent points which would have otherwise been at very different points, otherwise we think in even numbers like 2s and 4s, so you should definitely start off by doing it with triplets and then try out other accents as well and see how it goes and hold the same shape, you're still going pretty much up and down, that's pretty much it, right guys so moving on join me for part 3 where we are going to discuss a few, join me for part 3 where we are going to discuss yet another really cool way to play your major scale or whichever scale up and down and have a lot of fun while doing so