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Arpeggio practice, minor and
diminished chords.
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Once you have practiced
with your major chords,
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You can attempt the minor chords.
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Basically you just do the same practice,
but with the minor chords,
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rather than major.
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A fun exercise later will
make this more interesting.
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So you'll start with C minor.
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And you want D flat minor,
so you just find the chord.
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And D minor.
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And so on.
But
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now let's look at diminished arpeggios.
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It's good to know these because
they're very simple, but
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they're also very effective, and
they add into your improvisations.
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They bring a lot of
color to a progression.
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You may remember in book five you
played an A ballad style left hand,
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you were playing a G half diminished.
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You started on the B flat.
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So you created a really nice thing,
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just with the use of a diminished
arpeggio in the right hand.
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So look at the three different shapes for
the arpeggios.
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So you remember that they're
very distinct shapes.
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[SOUND] Let's play it
in the left hand first.
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[SOUND] That's your first shape,
very symmetrical.
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[SOUND] Second one there,
similarly symmetrical,
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in reverse almost, black,
white, white, black.
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[SOUND] Third one symmetrical but
sort of the odd one out.
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[SOUND] So
in the right hand you just follow that and
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follow the fingering.
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One, two, three.
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One, two, three, four, [SOUND] okay?
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Second one.
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And third one.
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So they're not too difficult,
so learn them,
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there are only three of them,
very simple, and
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it's a great way to sound very
professional with a minimum of effort.