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Improvising Ballad Style, Exercise 4.
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Expanding the range of notes.
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At the minute, you've got your
Left Hand Ballad Style, Root, Fifth,
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back to Root, and
you've added the 2nd and the 3rd.
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So you're looking for
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safe notes that you know will
work over that left hand pattern.
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So because it's C,
you can add on any chord tone from C.
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All right, and
you've also added in the 2nd.
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The 3rd, fifth, root, 2nd, 3rd, 5th.
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Okay, so when you're playing in C, and
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it's a C major chord that
you're using in the left hand,
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remember just to go for
any note from C that you see.
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Okay, now if you can make
a pattern out of this,
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some basic balance there 2nd,
3rd, 5th, root.
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Move the whole shift down to A minor,
so the root of A minor, 5th,
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back to root, 2nd, 3rd, 5th.
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Okay?
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Root, so look at A minor,
and A minor backwards.
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All right, with the 2nd, and
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F, root, 5th, root again.
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Okay, so look at F, backwards.
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And the chord of F, the 2nd.
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Up to G, root, 5th, root,
G backwards with the 2nd.
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Okay, experiment with these
extra chord tones, and
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there's a few ideas on the following
page to help you get started.
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Exercise 4, number 1,
Straight up and down.
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So your left hand plays the balance step,
and you're just going straight up and
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down with those asterisk notes.
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Okay, number 2 Freestyle.
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So you're just going to play anything.
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Again, you remember before we played with
the top four notes, like on the bongos,
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you're just playing anything that comes
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Okay, number 3,
Downwards motion in the right hand.
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So you're coming down with those
extra notes and you'll notice on
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the page that the right hand and the left
hand are starting together at one point.
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Number 4, Up and
down by adding an extra D and E.
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So you can extend the pattern
up into the next octave, and
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that means you get much
more notes to play with.
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So just follow the same
chord break very carefully.
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And then you're going to branch out,
so you swivel and start again.
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So you move the hand up.
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And notice that the two
hands work together.
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