Hi, I'm N.P.I. Hi, I'm N.P.I. brought to you by Digikey this week, so it's NXP. What is the new product of the week? Okay, yes, from NXP. This is their first load switch. I was like, oh, maybe they have stock other ones, and this is just their latest. Nope, this is their first time getting into this market. This is the NPS 4053. I was anxiously waiting until this was in stock. And it's now in stock at Digikey, so I feel like it's time to highlight it. So this is a 5.5-volt or 5-volt load switch, 55 mOhm. It's, you know, are on resistance up to 80 mOhms at VIN 2.5. And basically, it's what it sounds like. You have an input voltage and output voltage, and you want to connect the input to the output, you know, so that you can power a sub-circuit, turn it on, turn it off, have current limiting, have undervoltage lockout protection, have short circuit protection. It can be used for a couple of different reasons. One can be used to turn on and off a circuit to reduce power or to protect against, again, like short circuits like you have. In this case, the example for the application is USB or USB device malfunctions. You don't want to take down the hub and the computer, so you would be able to disconnect it cleanly. And this is just a very nice all-in-one integrates switch that does a lot of things.  We have circuits, and I'll show it in a little bit on, like, a metro, we use a mechanical switch to, sorry, on the BFF lipo for QDPI. We actually just use a mechanical switch to turn things on and off. The switch is rated for the amount of current we need to pass, so you just, you know, toggle it left or right, and on or off, or here's an on-off mechanical switch that's designed to carry, you know, up to 5, 10 amps of current. But, you know, that's mechanical.  You can check out those videos on when you can use an SSR. These are also great, very high currents, very fast, you know, have not mechanical disconnection, but good electrical disconnection between input and output. But these are really big. They're meant for, like, extremely high currents and extremely high voltages, you know, 200, 300 up. So, this is, you know, an example of a mechanical switch that we've used. It's really simple. You want to either connect the VBAT voltage, the battery input to the 5-volt power line or not. You have a mechanical switch, you flick it to connect, you flick it to disconnect. In this case, it's a DP-DT, and I kicked it in parallel to get twice as much current rating. I want to make sure that the 5-volt doesn't feed back into the battery, and so you'll see that diode. And, like I said, this is a mechanical solution. It works fine, but it tends to be for either, you know, either you have a small switch in its low voltages and current, or it's a very big, very expensive relay or SSR or switch. If you want to do it electrically, so you have a voltage controlling whether something is connected or disconnected, another common setup is the PFET. So, T2, the transistor in the middle there is a high current P type MOSFET, and I think it can pass like 4 amps or so, and I think it's good up to 12 volts VDS and VGS. I do have a switch there, but you can wear that. That switch is just, you know, if you want to also connect it electrically. And PFETs do quite well, except there's a couple of downsides. This is a high side PFET. So one is if you want to control this from a lower voltage, you'll have to have another N channel or NPN type transistor because you see the gate is pulled up high to the input voltage, and so you don't want that to go into your microcontroller. So you'd have to have a separate transistor just to switch on and off the gate. The second thing is that you see in the symbol for the PFET transistor, T2, there's that little diode that's pointing back. That's the body diode. And in this case, what would happen is that if you, you know, had a separate power supply or maybe some leakage into the VIN voltage, it could go back into the power supply, which is not good. You don't want to have bidirectional switch current. You want to have no direction at all, like neither from input to output or from output to input. Sometimes you can, from this case, I put in another diode. You see D1 and that makes sure that there's absolutely no way for any backfeeding or sometimes people use back to back transistors, but now I have two transistors and you have to switch both of them and it gets a little more complicated. And, you know, you need a couple of passive resistors as well to do the pull ups and downs. So this is a common, you know, way to do load switching, but there's a lot of downsides. There is not true disconnection. And another thing is, you know, I've used this in, a feather design once to switch on and off an I2C power supply to, you know, turn on I2C sensors and it worked fine when the I2C sensors were 5, 10 milliamps, but when it hit 50 milliamps, because turning on the MOSFET is like instantaneous, there was a huge current spike as it powered, you know, some capacitors or some high-powered electronics on the output side and it would brown out the input because of this like kind of instant fast rush of current. And so there's no current limiting here. You could add a crowbar circuit, but now, now it's getting really complicated. It's getting to like 10 components just to turn on and off some circuitry. You know, another solution that you could do is have a separate regulator in this case. You know, this is another design type I use. So instead of a PFET, I use a separate regulator and then the enable pin is tied to an IO and then you can turn on and off. This works great as long as you have a higher voltage with enough dropout that, you know, when you have that current rush, it doesn't affect the other power supplies. But, you know, you don't always want to have a regulator for each one. You know, you have to add more capacitance. You have to pick one that doesn't have, you know, feedback voltage from output to input. Sometimes you don't have headroom anyways for an LDO. You know, you maybe have a DC-DC power supply that is providing a lot of current to multiple subsystems. And also the regulator could be kind of big because it's also doing regulation when you really just want to enable or disable it. So thus, the NXP NPS 4052. So here it is. It's a two millimeter by two millimeter package. So it's nice and small. It's very simple. You have the input and the output. You have the logic switch on. You have a flag output. So that is something that tells you when then there's an error. If there's a short circuit or undervoltage or overvoltage or whatever. I limit, which is kind of neat. The resistor can be used to limit the current to convert from constant voltage to constant current. And there's a duplicate output because, you know, you want to have a, sorry, there's the output voltage. And then there's a ground and thermal pad. So very simple. Only six pins required. All of them do something. So this is like bare bones. I will say that, you know, the one thing to watch for, this is designed for three to five volt logic input. You know, it's, you saw the example was to use it for USB, but it does do up to two amps output current, just quite a bit. So this is good for high power switching on and off. You can set the limit to anywhere between zero to two volts, sorry, zero to two amps, but yeah, you can't really go above 5.5. And honestly, I would stick to between three and five volts for this. One of the nice things is you can see, you know, you turn it on, it has this kind of the slow start is what they call it, where you have a slow ramp up, which is often better for electronics. They kind of want the power to slowly ramp. They don't want it to like go up, ring, you know, go up and down. And then also in turning off, it's instantaneous. So you want like slow start on and quick start off or quick off. It handles transgences pretty nicely. You'll want, of course, capacitance on there. It reacts to short circuits very quickly.  Here's just a short circuit protection that they talk about. What is nice is that when the short circuit goes away, it does recover.  Some voltage regulators and switches latch on or off. And then finally, there's the fault output flag kind of handy. So it tells you over temperature, I think under voltage, over current, et cetera. And then of course the enable pin can be controlled. If you have a five volt power supply, you can control it with a lower voltage. I think the neat thing here is the constant current can fill the, it's really nice. You just pick a resistor and then you can limit the current and it will automatically convert from constant voltage to constant current mode, just quite nice because it means, you know, if you have something that's taking a little bit too much current and like a fuse, which will just instantly cut it off, you'll just, you know, slowly reduce the power and maybe you have a chance to recover. And they're in stock and you can see 3000, like a full reel. They just came into stock today. So you can pick these up. That's a very nice first load switch available from NXP. And we have a video. We're going to play it. Now let's take a look at some of the key product features that the MPS4053 has to offer. The input operating voltage range for the MPS4053 is 2.5 to 5.5 volts. At 5.5 volts input, the RDS on is 55 mili ohms. This allows for lower power dissipation, lower voltage drop across the pass-fet in greater thermal performance. The maximum continuous current that the device can withstand is 2 amps. This is the amount of current the device can sustain indefinitely, whereas peak and rush current is only sustained for a short amount of time. The MPS4053 also features a precision adjustable current limit that can be programmed with an external resistor from 110 milliamps to 2.5 amps. This device also features an active low fault pin, which asserts low under an over-temperature, over-current, or reverse voltage condition. One of the unique features about this device is its I limit pin protection. This means the device will continue to operate normally if the I limit pin is shorted to ground or open and will continue to regulate current normally. This device also features active reverse voltage protection, which means the pass-fet will turn off if the output voltage exceeds the input voltage by about 75 millivolts typical. Lastly, this device features built-in soft start, which allows the output voltage to be applied smoothly and gradually to the downstream load to prevent the instantaneous delivery of power which can damage the load. Next up, let's take a look at the MPS4053 versus the competition. The MPS4053 offers best-in-class on-resistance, maximum continuous current, I limit pin open and short protection, reverse voltage triggering threshold, current limit accuracy, and all of these devices offer over-current protection over-temperature protection. Looks like an MPI. Hi, I'm MPI.


It is nothing short of unfortunate that the diet of the majority of Americans is influenced so greatly by the media, conventional wisdom, appeal to authority, essentially what we've been told our entire lives. I guarantee you that meat sales have gone down in flavor of plant-based alternatives, but they still need people to eat some meat otherwise their feedlot operations would go to waste. There were 10 articles yesterday on meat not being bad for you anymore. Really? The general consensus of these articles being that people should continue their current consumption of meat as the health impact of cutting back is non-existent and that it would be misleading to suggest people should avoid meat for health reasons. I'm getting sick of all this back and forth BS and figured this was an excellent opportunity to debunk all of the arguments commonly used against meat consumption.  The first and by far most popular argument is that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease. I think there are far too many arguments on both sides of this and we can fling epidemiological studies back and forth at each other all day. But the fact that there is evidence on both sides means that we should be looking at mechanisms, metabolic processes in the body as opposed to looking at these studies. The theory is that saturated fat increases cholesterol and that this cholesterol forms plaques in your arteries leading to heart disease. But the sole reason that cholesterol actually gets stuck in your arteries is because of linoleic acid. When you consume vegetable seed oils, any nuts or seeds high in linoleic acid, the fats in your body become the fats you are eating. In this case, linoleic acid is unnatural to our bodies in such high amounts therefore it is inflammatory and our body attacks it. This cholesterol gets attacked in our arteries causing blockages leading to heart attacks and stroke. And this isn't limited to heart disease. Linoleic acid causes damage in many cells and metabolic systems in our bodies. Of course increasing the amount of this inflammatory linoleic acid based cholesterol would be detrimental but if linoleic wasn't present as it shouldn't be, it wouldn't be an issue in the first place. Stop blaming the meat for what the soy and sugar did. Another popular concern is that carcinogens are formed when cooking meat. But these carcinogens aren't specific to meat. You have heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that are formed when creatine and amino acids in meat react with a heating element. But polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are also present in cereal, processed carbohydrates, vegetable seed oils, advanced glycation end products can be formed in our bodies from these carcinogens but only in the presence of high blood sugar. So the culprit with AGEs is the high carbohydrate consumption of a standard American diet. Acrylamide is another end product that forms when carbohydrates are cooked. French fries, potato crisps, coffee, pastries, breads. The point here is that all of the foods that we eat that are cooked are full of supposed carcinogens yet humans have been cooking food for thousands and thousands of years in perfect health before we started consuming modern processed foods, vegetable seed oils. Stop blaming the meat for what the soy and sugar did. That's going to be the mantra here. What about heme iron? Heme iron is a type of iron found specifically in meat and heme iron can actually oxidize fats in your colon resulting in a toxic environment allowing cancerous cells to thrive at the expense of normal cells increasing cancer risk. This ties back to the linoleic acid discussion we had earlier about heart disease. Omega 6 fats like linoleic acid are prone to oxidation especially because our body cannot utilize the high amounts we are consuming in modern diets. Stop blaming the meat for what the soy did. What's crazy about this is that iron deficiency is one of the biggest problems in the United States. Over 10 million people yet we are afraid of eating red meat because all of these studies are saying oh heme iron is bad for you if you chug down half a gallon of soybean oil a week. TMAO is trimethylamine and oxide, a molecule said to be linked to heart disease. It is produced in your body from certain substances contained in food such as carnitine in red meat, betaine in grains and vegetables, choline in eggs and vegetable seed oils such as soybean oil which we consume much more of than red meat, betaine nitrate is found in certain vegetables like spinach, lettuce, celery and beets. TMAO excretion in the urine is much higher when consuming fish compared to beef and known is going to say that eating wild caught fish is unhealthy for you unless they are a brain washed vegan.  Egg consumption has not been shown to increase TMAO levels and TMAO has actually been shown to reduce markers of heart failure, the opposite of what we are being told. MTOR is the mammalian target of repamycin, the MTOR pathway being a very complicated metabolic pathway whose function is in cell metabolism, growth, proliferation and survival. The argument here is that consuming protein, certain amino acids, is activating the MTOR pathway therefore accelerating aging as well as cancer growth. All studies done on MTOR were in the context of a fat restricted diet which puts stress on different metabolic functions as you are now getting imbalanced amounts of nutrients not reminiscent of a natural diet. A lack of animal fat and animal nutrients will increase appetite resulting in higher protein and carbohydrate consumption. High protein and high carbohydrate meals spike insulin much more than fat. Your meal frequency will be much higher as well resulting in blood sugar fluctuations plentiful throughout the day. This study supports my hypothesis. MTOR inhibition is associated with glucose intolerance, insulin resistance as well as unnaturally high cholesterol levels. We also see testicular degeneration, cataracts, inflammation of the digestive tract as well as impaired wound healing. It is safe to say that MTOR is a necessary cell process that we are looking at negatively. Would you put weights in your car because your brakes weren't working well? No, you would fix your brakes. But the way we are looking at MTOR is not fixing the root problem. Why are we trying to slow it down as opposed to fixing the possible negative inputs to the aging process? Linoleic acid, sugar, refined junk foods should all be removed from the diet before considering any of these things that are as crazy as taking a drug to inhibit an incredibly important metabolic pathway in the body. IGF-1 is insulin-like growth factor 1. A hormone similar to insulin plays an important role in childhood growth and has anabolic effects in adults. We see that high levels of IGF-1 can promote the growth of certain cancers, but men with low IGF-1 levels had an almost 2-fold higher risk of all-cause mortality. This is similar to MTOR, in a sense that we are trying to limit unnecessary part of human metabolism because we can't figure out why the metabolic processes associated with that necessary part of metabolism aren't working properly. Eating milk has been shown to boost IGF-1, and it's probably why the Masai tribe were one of the physically strongest groups of people. We can also credit the high dairy consumption in the Netherlands for the impressive height of the Dutch. Nu5GC is a non-human sialic acid sugar molecule. This molecule is found in most non-human mammals, but human genes mutated thousands of years ago, losing the Nu5GC gene and gaining excess Nu5AC, which is simply a Nu5GC molecule with oxygen added. So we don't produce Nu5GC, but can obtain it from eating meat from animals that contain it in their flesh. Nu5GC is found in higher levels in tumors, therefore it is believed to play a role in cancer. Sialic acids, Nu5GC, Nu5AC, have structural and modulatory roles in cells. They are a crucial component of the cell surface. Humans have specific antibodies to gather Nu5GC, but Nu5GC does get incorporated into tissue, so our body uses it despite not producing it anymore. So we know that sialic acids are needed in cells for important functions, but when cancer cells have higher levels of sialic acids, we view it as a bad thing. That doesn't make sense. If a cell was under stress, it would probably require more of the certain resources that it normally uses to function, so it's very possible that your body is taking the Nu5GC to the point of inflammation and trying to help. There are a lot of pieces missing to this Nu5GC puzzle, but it's safe to say that Nu5GC being a carcinogen is far from being proven. Some of you may be familiar with nitrates being added to processed meats, causing them to be carcinogenic. Nitrates and nitrites occur naturally in fruits and vegetables, but when added to processed meats, can react with other chemicals and proteins to form nitrosamines, the carcinogenic compound that we are worried about. The chemical reaction appears to be limited to dried processed meats such as cured meats, cooked bacon, not fat dry milk, certain cheeses. The direct fire drying process used here oxidizes the meats far more than other heating methods. Basically, don't buy cheap meat processed in a giant conventional factory. Naturally smoked meats, even with preservatives added, don't appear to be an issue. There are certainly concerns pertaining to hormones, heavy metals, other pollutants in meat and fish, but more so the food supply in general. If people knew the amount of antibiotics and negative substances in their water, they would probably find a clean river and build a cabin next to it. Whether it's estrogenic herbicides like actrazine in grain-fed beef, toxins in farm-raised fish, or glyphosate in grains, the way we are currently raising food is a concern. The solution being to support local farming, sustainable agriculture, natural ecosystems. And if humans lived as nature intended, I wouldn't be up at 3 am losing my mind making this video. So if you guys could please give me a like, subscribe if you haven't, definitely hit that bell icon. If you guys would like to support me further, please check out frankiesfreerangemeat.com. We have a local beef box delivered to your door for less than $10 a pound and by the time I post this we're probably going to be out of it. We have grass-fed wagyu on sale, off cuts, and honestly guys the wagyu is the best meat I have ever tasted in my life, bar none, at the hands of Chef Frankie Boy. You guys can also check out frankiesnaturals.com for minimal ingredients, minimally processed hygiene and cosmetic products. If you want to look like a Roman statue after not having slept for 3 days. Thanks again for joining me guys, enjoy the rest of your day. Before I forget, if you guys want to reach out to me for one-on-one health consultations, you can shoot me an email frankatufano at gmail.com.


Hi guys, this is Jason Zak from Nathaniel School of Music. In this exercise, we are going to develop country piano techniques which can be very useful for not just country, also to play folk music, gospel music, some traditional stuff which you would find out there. And the technique basically will involve what we call as walking up or walking down, that's what it's kind of officially called. And it makes a very simple chord progression, something like or a chord pattern, something like this, which sounds very pop-ish or very standard, you know, and the technique which I teach you will make it go from there to something more country. So we are going to go in a very sequential manner. I am first going to talk about the scale, the essential theory, how we are building this technique, the chords, the notes of each chord and all the notation and my handwritten notes will be available and waiting for you on our Patreon page. So if you'd like to pause the video and get yourselves a copy, that will be awesome. It'll also support our channel or else you can just follow along with the lesson. And before I start, it'll be awesome if you haven't already do consider hitting that subscribe button and there's a bell somewhere there, it'll be nice if you can ring the bell. So let's get cracking. So the way I approach the intro of the song, very similar to Nora Jones's Turn Me On and so many other country gospel songs, you'll be able to play so many songs with this technique. All you need to do is know the one chord, the four chord and the five chord of your respective scale. And just for making the lesson more interesting, I'm going to take a scale which is not C major as most of the tutorials tend to do. So we'll try and take B flat major. So B flat major has two flats, namely B flat and E flat. So what's the scale? B flat, C D, E flat, F, G, A, B flat, coming down, B flat, A, G, F, E flat, D, C, B flat. Now the one chord built out of the one, the four chord built out of the fourth degree, then the five chord are all going to be major chords in the major scale as the rules of chord theory are one, four, five is major. So you have B flat major, E flat major and F major which is your one, your four and your five. So the progression we'll deal with now just so that we can get the one, four, five chords going together will be one, four, one, five. So that'll be B flat, E flat, B flat, F. One more time. B flat, E flat, B flat, F. So you could play this progression however you wish. The traditional patterns could be maybe four hits per chord, stuff like this. And I'm also playing some nice inversions in the right hand to make the shifting process a lot easier. You could also do arpeggios. But this exercise will involve a very traditional country walk up, walk down routine over the same chord progression one, four, one, five and to make it very old school country let's do it in three, four which is the waltz kind of time signature. So you're going to want to count one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three and try to count it the way I'm saying it one with some emphasis, two, three, three to drag back to the next one. So one, two, three, one, two and we're doing three with some swing or you can straight it. So by swing and straight I mean how you're subdividing. You could go one and two and three and one and two and three and one and three. Which makes it very swing. You could go one and two and three and one and two and three which makes it more straight, very folk, very perhaps even rock like, in nature. So the run of swing versus straight will sound like this. while straight would be and so on. So we'll start in a very sequential manner. First we'll begin with the bass, the left hand and here's what you do. So what am I doing there? I'm doing root of the scale. Climb to the 4 of the scale which is E flat. Climb down to the root of the scale which brings us back to B flat. Root to the lower 5th which is F. F to the root. Root to the 4th. It's important to know these intervals as later on in your own journey you can transpose this to other scales. So root. So the roots of the chords are going to be emphasized by playing them as dotted minims. That would be 3 counts each. So it goes 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1. So the climbing notes would be the same root of that chord but then it's almost like a ladder. How do I go from B flat to E flat safely? Well it has to most likely be diatonic which is within the scale. So the diatonic ladder like motion or the climbing stepwise motion would be B flat, C, D, E flat because B and C sharp are not part of the scale. So B flat, C, D, E flat. So we are counting it as dotted minim or 3 counts. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. If you would like you can lift your hand at the 3. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. So first off we are going from the 1 to the 4th. That journey would be 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, the 4th. Now we do the climb down motion ladder down which is 4 down to 1. Again we wait on the 1 for the dotted minim and then 1 down to 5. For variety we are just going down to 5. So up to the 4, down to the 1, down to the 5 and now back to the 1. The whole story. 1, 1 to the 4 chord E flat. So if I just play the chords in the right hand to showcase this journey. 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, E flat has now come in. 1, 2, 3, back to B flat. 3, 1, 2, 3, 5 chord. Back to B flat. 1, 2, 3, E flat. 1, 2, 3, 1, back to B flat. 1, 2, 3, 2, the 1 and then we loop it. So the country technique will now be you play B flat here as always. The same line in the bass and you harmonize it in the right hand with what we call as upper thirds or you can just say thirds. So you take B flat, its diatonic third would be the D. So you build this kind of set of thirds which are all diatonic. So any time you see B flat there I want you to whack D. Any time you see C there you whack E flat. Any time you whack D you whack F. Any time you play E flat you whack G. And what's nice is you can see the chart we have for you which shows you pretty much all the thirds and also the shapes of the thirds.  Is it black to white?  All those permutations visually it will be very easy for you to imagine the interval or imagine the combo of notes and then play it. So now we add the thirds to our normal bass line which we developed earlier. So that will go 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1 and watch my fingers. In my right hand I am doing thumb, middle, crossing and then index. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1 coming down. 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. You can already make it a little country by sneaking in this. You can glide to the D if you can. Then instead of just going to G you can do. If you are not getting it nicely enough or confidently enough don't bother. So coming down, back to the 5, up to the E flat. Back to B flat which is the root. And remember we are keeping that walls 3 by 4 going. So 1, 2, 3, 1. Bother so much about fingering because the next techniques are anyways going to force 1 or 2 notes to be tied up to 1 or 2 fingers. So let's move forward. So the next addition to this country walk up walk down technique would then be to add the root. So that's B flat. The root of the scale not the root of the chord. So you are doing B flat with... Well you could do the root in both hands. I am just going to do it in one hand for now. The right hand up top. Not here, here. What's the root of B flat major? B flat. So 2, 3. Pretty much every note you are going to play in the lick or in this run or this climbing technique will be complimented by the root note on the top. 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. And now when I drop down to the F because I am approaching the F and also my hands are going to get very, very stretched out. I am going to choose another anchor note. So these anchor notes as I am calling them are the root of the scale and the fifth of the scale. So you could use either of them to kind of thicken or enrich this particular base movement. So I am using the root up to the 4. I am still keeping the root because I am going... And now when I go down to the 5 I am adding the fifth of the scale which is F which is easy on the fingers and also a much more pleasant sound than retaining the root for that A because for the 5 chord when you land there might as well play the 5 of the B flat scale. So follow. The pretty much the same third movement going on except for that additional note on the top register of the performance. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2. Now you want to cross up, cross down your fingers and then to allow you to keep F on the bottom and keep the F going as we climb back to the root of the chord. So whole story... 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2. F. 1, 2, 3. 1, 2. Going up. 2, 3, 1. Now back to the B flat. 4, back to the third root. Okay, so now the next variation or the next addition to this whole party would be to add pretty much the same anchor note as what you are doing in the right hand but by playing that anchor note at the subdivisions or at the off beats, not at the 1, 2 and 3 of the 3 by 4 but at the ends. So first off let's look at a straight performance that means 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and where the thumb of the left hand or the topmost voice of the left hand will be playing this upper B flat. Let me demonstrate and then show you. So you have this B flat at every and 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3 1 and 2 and down, 1 and 2 and 3. Remember there you have to change your drone or your anchor to F in both hands at the upper register. So whole story, 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 3 and down, climbing. You could also do B flat up here and you could do F here pretty much any of the anchor notes which are B flat in F and 2 and 3. I quite like that as well. So that's straight eighths. You can also swing it 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3. Swinging. It's just this one thumb note which is giving you that element of swing or a straight feel because that's the only note or the only finger playing a note which is in a subdivision. The rest are all 1, 2, 3, 1, 2. All are on the beat. 1, 2 and 3 and 1 and down, down. So that's pretty much the technique guys and you can use it for well turn me on would work good. You can use it for a lot of other tunes. You can use it for maybe a gospel song like Amazing Grace. You just have to play it around depending on which chord. That's F. I went to the 4. Maybe an overkill of the technique but you get the idea. What about something like this? You can modify the tune or I went to the 5 by mistake but you get the idea. And yeah you can do it with maybe folk songs, gospel songs as I showed you, rhymes, explore the technique and you could also just try to sing your own melody as you walk up or walk down. So that's the idea behind the technique. It's just a nice way in a nutshell to kind of describe this when a chord is very lazy or very boring you kind of juice it up by pushing it to the next chord. So it creates this harmonic movement. The harmony is not just the chords, it's how you glide or how you move from one chord to the other and that's the beautiful essence of country music and folk music in general because they take simple 1, 4 and 5 chords and make magic out of that because of these bass movements. And in a way even blues music has a lot of this climbing up walking bass, even jazz music has it. So a lot of these genres rely on the bass to create that movement between the harmony to project the chord a lot better for your brain. And just to conclude the lesson I'd like to just show you a few embellishments which I just keep doing or I keep itching to do, I can't help it, it just happens so I'll definitely gonna walk you all of that. That may not be in our notes but the rest of this entire video, the notation, my handwritten notes, planning, preparing for this entire activity are all waiting for you as booklets on Patreon, you'll also get a midi file so you can see the notes using any virtual midi player of your choice. So let's get to some embellishments. So I'm going, so I'm doing this, instead of just doing G when I land, I'm doing a, I can either do a fast glide or a fast grace note as it's called or a slow one, I can do, so I could do the slow version, the fast version, I could do a nice turn there, a chromatic movement where F and G are ringing but this F sharp is a very sneaky addition, it's very soft so 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, you barely hear it, so you don't want to, you don't want to ever highlight that F sharp, that'll be a counterproductive thing, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 coming down, okay, I could do a little flick of the semitone after G, mind you some notes sound a bit awful but some sound really nice because that note gives you that mixolydian modal change which is a nice embellishment in your performance, so whole thing, so it's almost very vocal like it's something you would also sing as a singer, that sort of thing, so you don't want to overdo it but you get the idea, okay and you can also play a few things staccato and legato that adds to the dynamics, you know, legato, softer, maybe staccato, legato, things like this will add a lot of impact to the song especially if you're following the lyrics of the song in a very musical way, so that's about the lesson guys, so this was a country piano exercise to practice walk ups and walk downs on the piano, very common technique used by all instrumentalists not just piano players, even guitar players do this stuff a lot and hope you found the lesson useful in the description, we'll leave you some more videos which you could check out around this technique, a few more country lessons and for those of you may not know, I release daily riffs on a separate website which allows, for those of you don't know I release daily riffs on a separate website even though those are YouTube videos, we filter them really well with emotion, with genre, with time signature, time feel and a lot of other things, so we leave you a link in description to head over right there and listen to some of my country gospel compositions which you may find useful or hopefully it will inspire you, you can also learn the riffs by going to the end of the video where I played very slowly, you can also download backing tracks for each of these riffs, midi files and all of this will be available waiting for you on the website, have fun with the lesson, hope you enjoyed it, catch you in the next one, cheers.