Sir, now you can take your seat. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. And this is with particular reference to the Faculty of Tetsuo College, the students of Tetsuo College and any other participants that we have out here. I just wanted to tell you how much of a pleasure it is for me to reconnect with a larger body in Nagaland after my departure in 2013. Yes, I have been in connection with individuals, but this is the first time since I left that I'm having the opportunity to speak to a larger body like this. And for that, I need to convey special thanks to Dr. Anirudh for having given me this honor. I am at a premium, so let us begin. I would like to start by saying that when we are studying the relationship between two nations, you know what is happening today is visible and probably all of you are current with it. But to be able to look at how we have to assess the situation and how we need to go forward, there is a need to look at what is it that China represents. You know, in the Army, whenever you talk about an operational plan, the first and foremost thing is what we say, getting to know your enemy. Now out here, in case we are looking at a certain equation, a certain relationship with China, it is very, very important to understand the country. And particularly China, because you can see a consistency in certain objectives and the manner in which the nation has been conducting itself.  The first point I want to convey to everybody is, I'm sure many of you would have heard it, of China considering itself or calling itself the middle kingdom. What does it imply? You know, the interpretation of the earliest Chinese and here we are talking about, it started, the records are say from 2050 BC. So the first dynasty that is referred to called the Chu dynasty, had set up or dwelled in the plains of the Yellow River and their interpretation was that anybody else outside this domain of ours is of a lower culture, a lower status and they even refer to them as barbarians. And with the result, they took it upon themselves that there is a need to integrate all these communities and to kingdoms and bring them into our elevated or higher culture. So over time, you had constant conflict. The dominant kingdom in conflict with the others trying to integrate them and in this process, sorry, you had a total of 13 dynasties in China. The dominant clans have changed starting with the Chu like I mentioned, subsequently at some stage you have had the Mongols in governance, you have had the Manchus who hail from Manchuria and more recently or presently you have the Han clan that is dominant in China. Now the point I'm trying to highlight is the kind of conflict that people have gone through. The last dynasty that was overthrown in 1912 was the Qin dynasty, Qin pronounced with a Q that is Q-I-N-G or sorry, spelt with a Q. Now in this last 19th century is when significant changes took place. Till then it was by and large an internal affair of the Chinese only, but Western traders had started now after India reaching out further east and you have the record of the Portuguese having reached their first and occupied the island of Macau. Subsequently almost every European country has come in there and landed up in China. The items for trade from China were primarily silk, ocelain and tea. Now this was huge earning for China because China for the first time was being paid in silver and this was very soon a trade imbalance where the western countries were suddenly suffering a very negative imbalance. To be able to get over that negative balance of trade the British had introduced, you must have heard of the opium wars so they had introduced opium into the trade. Very soon the ill effects of opium were visible to everybody and China started regulating and controlling the trade of opium. That is what resulted in the opium wars of the first and the second there were two wars, the first one which ended in 1842 and the next one in 1860. What is it that has happened during this time? China was made to make plenty of concessions where trading was taking place from one port. You suddenly had about 15 ports that were opened up to the western traders. Hong Kong was ceded to the British. Now why I mention all this is it was also the cause for a lot of internal turmoil in China and gradually the Qing dynasty started losing its hold to the extent that you then had the Japanese invade in 1895. The reason for mentioning this is what the Chinese even today fall back upon as unequal treaties. That is how there is a great resentment against what they term colonialism which is even today influencing behavior in a big, big way. So I made a mention of two things till now. First was that we are the middle kingdom and everybody around us is a barbarian. They need to be integrated and here you have the negative impact of colonialism which they refer to as unequal treaties. This is the backdrop of people's minds. It influences generations even today. Come into the situation of World War II where China is with the Allies, Japan is defeated but then comes the after Japan has been defeated with the aid of the Allies. You then have the internal dissension that takes place between the nationalist party of the Kuomintang against the communist led by Mao Zedong. Finally, you would all know that the nationalist party had taken refuge in Taiwan and you had the Republic of China being established in 1949. Initially, their huge neighbour Russia and China were in alliance. Both communist countries, one Marxist, one Leninist. But after the demise of Stalin, when Khrushchev came into power in Russia you suddenly had a conflict here amongst the communists. This became a motivation for China and Mao Zedong to try and take a leadership role as a communist model and bringing out the third aspect of this historical perspective that you're looking at. And that was first what they called the great leap forward. This was Mao's idea of bringing in communist principles into life where people were being herded into communes. It coincided with the famine. The figures of the number of deaths in China range all the way from 10 million to 40 and 45 million. Those are the kinds of figures that are being quoted. Again, try and understand the kind of mentality where even when deaths are taking place in such a large scheme you can have a statement by the head of government to say that in a crisis like this some people need to eat, others may have to be sacrificed.  It was a better experience. But once this finished you suddenly had people who were in leadership roles actually who saw the negative effects of whatever happened now contesting or at least questioning authority. It resulted in after that what they called the cultural revolution started in 1966. What was it? Just a message out to a lot of the youth. These were essentially students who got together and formed the Red Guards. They went on a rampage where they were all being encouraged to get rid of the bourgeois, the educated, the more privileged. So reports are that even those who dressed differently from the traditional Chinese attire were picked up on the road and beat up and again the number of deaths range all the way from 5 lakh to 2 million or so. Those are the kinds of figures being quoted. But it was a manner of Mao Zedong re-establishing his authority. Now when you think of all of this, try and look at how so much of it is also being played out again and again. Anyway, to get moving forward Mao Zedong passes away in 1976. With a brief interim, you had the great reformer Dinsio Ping come into power. Now he is the person who has actually set China onto the route, onto the agenda on which it has been for a long time. Which was what he called the Four Modernizations and which transformed China and China continues to thrive as an economic power. Now that is the kind of country that was created but let me tell you again to fall back on whatever I talked about till now. Even a great reformer like Dinsio Ping did not hesitate to launch an attack on Vietnam in 1979. He came to power in 1977 to launch an attack on Vietnam because Vietnam had invaded Cambodia ruled by the Khmer Rouge who were a Chinese puppet. In 1989, because with the reforms there were problems in terms of corruption, people getting very wealthy, many being left out. And it created a kind of a student movement against the government. It was actually triggered by the death of one of their reformers. Now he did not hesitate to send in the army and there were huge massacres for which there are no accurate figures also. Now this is the kind of mindset that we are looking at and like I said a consistent mindset that continues even today. Now Dinsio Ping moves out of the scene but remember one very significant directive that he had got recorded was that every leader, every Communist Party leader, every president would spend only two terms in power. Five years, five years, maximum of ten years after that you made way. So after Dinsio Ping left the scene in 1989 you had between Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao coming into power and then in 2012 comes Xi Jinping. Now you see a different kind of a China manifesting itself for which you can fall back on what I spoke about in history. A dominant China economically rising to great heights number two only to the United States. Anybody who is inclined and has the time please go through a book called Rise and Fall of the Great Powers written by Paul Kennedy. In this book he assesses regimes all the way from what he has called the modern era that is from the Ottoman Empire onwards. Talking about how any country that grows economically extremely powerful automatically builds up an armed force to be able to protect that economy. And the moment the size of those armed forces reach a certain state it has invariably resulted in conflict. Where will that conflict be? When will that conflict be is open to question. But this is the kind of China that we are facing. Let's come to the other side and look at India. We had a colonial past but India achieved its independence through a nonviolent movement. The difference I want to draw here is massive rebellion, killings, death had very little effect on people when it came to moving forward. A very different situation here where at independence the leadership here was you could call in the socialist mode a little bit of a pacifist nation. Looking at peace not wanting conflict. I think your concept paper has already brought out commands by Dr. Mbedkar. Similarly the Home Minister then Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. There were apprehensions about China. But the fact is that you were suddenly coming out of a colonial time. So probably we'll all have to put our hearts and minds into what people felt at that time. So there was a constant attempt or effort to appease China in the hope that things will be quiet. 1962 is history. What happened for all that appeasement is now well known. With the rise of the economy. Now everybody, I mean most of you would know that in 1971 China, sorry, the United States looking at China as a huge market had taken the initiative and it was Pakistan who introduced China to the US, opened them up. And during Deng Xiaoping's time there was no stone left unturned to be able to get the maximum out of that relationship in terms of technology education. And they use that opportunity to great effect in terms of establishing universities, not only facilities and there has been a lot of espionage to be able to get hold of the technologies that they require. So what do you have? A massive armed force. You have reached a stage where they have started imposing themselves on the entire neighborhood. So when we talk about problems between India and China, we need to look at this even in a wider context. Because you have got China reaching out into the South China Seas very arbitrarily laying out a complete area that is meant to be their area of influence. Island territories are being built upon, air bases coming up, oil exploration by other countries being prevented. An air exclusion zone having been declared. You look at the kind of pressure that is being put on Taiwan. Short of physical movement into Taiwan, most recently large numbers of aircraft flying through Taiwanese airspace. The kind of market that China offers people, nobody, no other country is prepared to even establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. And now the relationship between India and China over time, some amount of this friction on the borders have been there, but it has been managed. Of late there was a speech made by Xi Jinping where he has given a direction of fortifying our borders. And that is when you suddenly see the kind of incidents that are taking place now in Ladakh. This is the situation, the way we see it. What is it for the future? We've got eminent speakers coming up. I will look if there are questions and answers to take on later because I may be taking too much of time. But I just wanted to say one thing that we have to look at the response both at the strategic level and at the operational level. We have to recognize that there are certain equations between two countries that we have to be conscious about. And today as far as an economy is concerned, we are barely a quarter of the size of the economy of China. So with that, when you look at the armed forces, again we have a massive differential. So managing localized situations, not an issue. You saw certain initiatives taken or you must have heard about certain initiatives taken recently because now everybody has got to know that there is a huge lack of trust. Why do I say lack of trust? When I talked about the declaration of the South China seas as their own, there is a United Nations response to a complaint filed by the Philippines, wherein China has lost out on that, you know, they're declaring that particular area which they call the Nine Dash Line, which is checked by the United Nations, but it has not had any impact on China. You look at the agreement signed with the UK as far as Hong Kong is concerned. Signed in 1997 where an assurance of 50 years of one nation, two systems was committed, that has been abrogated. The number of agreements signed with India starting from 1993 to 1996 to 2003 to 2013, there are many of restrictions imposed on armed forces across the border in movement in terms of deploying, all of that has been thrown to the wind. So this is the kind of adversary we are looking at and let's make no bones about it. You know, over time we've had discussions of, no, we don't call China a competitor. We, you know, we look at collaboration and stuff like that. Let's face it, we have an adversary across the border with us. The question is how to address it. So when I was referring to the strategic level, you may be hearing in international fora as to a kind of a mobilization of democracies. Because across the globe, people have realized as to how China with its Belt and Road Initiative, with the kind of establishments of ports, what we have been referring to as the string of pearls, starting from Hambantota in Sri Lanka to Gwadar in Pakistan to Djibouti towards Africa. Now all of these ports are being gradually militarized. Djibouti where they constantly said that it is only a kind of a place to monitor their commercial traffic through the Indian Ocean. A garrison has been established out there. So that is the reality and the rest of the world is seeing it. So everybody is talking now about alliance of democracies to contest China. The strategic level with diplomacy, with the kind of joint exercise that you may have heard about between Australia, Japan, the United States, India, all of these measures are on. What is to be happening at the tactical level, I will leave out for now. I don't want to dwell on that, but subsequently if there is anything that is okay to speak about, I'll speak. I would like to end with this purely to have put a perspective into what I presume will be complimented by the subsequent speakers. Thank you very much.


From Mountain View, California, it's theCUBE, covering the 15th Annual Grow Awards. Brought to you by ACGSV. Lisa Martin with theCUBE on the ground at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California for the 15th Annual Grow Awards for the Association of Corporate Growth in Silicon Valley, ACGSV, that's a mouthful. I'm here with one of the ACGSV board members, Zach Matru, the District Sales Manager at Inspirity. Hey, Zach, it's great to have you on theCUBE. Thank you so much, Lisa. I'm pleased to be here. So before we talk about what you're doing here at the 15th Annual Grow Awards, tell our audience about Inspirity. I was reading, I love taglines. And I see on your homepage, Inspirity is obsessed with delivering HR mastery. Wow, obsessed and mastered those two words just jumped out. Tell us a little bit about what you guys do. Impressive, isn't it? Well, we actually just adjusted our tagline to HR that makes a difference. And that's really what it's all about. We feel like companies that are growing, if they're going to make it from good to the best, it has everything to do with the people, attracting the best people and keeping them, developing them over time. And that's exactly what we do with our clients. So Inspirity has been in business since 1986. And if I think of today's modern workforce, highly mobile, distributed, there's the whole on-demand industry. You guys have seen a tremendous amount of change that now can be massively influenced and your customers can using technology. Give me a little bit of the historical perspective on Inspirity's inception and today's workforce and how you're helping them attract and retain the best talent. Oh, absolutely. Well, when the company started, you know, it was in a maybe 200 square foot room with one telephone between the two co-founders. There's no such thing as email. So absolutely, there's been immense technological changes and there continues to be. I think that's one of the things that has been responsible for Inspirity's success is its adoption of technology. And today we are as much a technology company as we are an employee benefits company or an HR consulting company. It's really about creating a positive experience for the employees. That's part of being a competitive employer. Well, it has to be a positive experience, right? For your customers because acquiring great talent is one thing, retaining them is another. And I want to kind of pivot off the retention there for a second as the district sales manager was asking you before we went live. Tell me, you know, maybe one of your favorite stories. And you said, well, one of the great things, you guys are coming up, great growth and FY18 revenue growth. One of the great things that Inspirity has been really successful at is customer retention. And that's hard. You're proud of this. Tell us about that statistic that you mentioned and how it is that Inspirity is evolving and innovating over the last few decades to keep that retention number as phenomenal as it is. Well, Inspirity has been named one of the most admired corporations in the country, actually five years in a row by Fortune Magazine. And that's the kind of press that you can't buy. One of the accolades that I'm most proud of is that in the past year, our own employees named us one of the top 100 companies to work for in the United States, which is, I think, the proof that we really know what we're doing with our clients because there are a lot of different companies out there, various competitors, and almost none of them are on that list. So it's living our values and expressing through our service team or extraordinary service team that I think keeps our clients coming back to us year after year, about 85% renew. That's been consistent high level of client retention for the past three years. Even more extraordinary is that we've been growing both top line and bottom line revenue at the same time. So there's just a testament to our leadership, to our co-founder and CEO, Paul Servati, and to the rest of the team. But it sounds like there's a lot of symbiotic relationships between the internal retention and Inspirity that is maybe leading through to your customer seeing, hey, there's not a high turnover here. These people are doing, they love what they're doing. They're working for a good company. So there's probably a lot of symbiotic... Well, that's exactly right. I think you really hit the nail on the head. It's about culture. It's a culture that starts from the top with leadership and it filters down throughout the organization. And we're not looking to do business with every single company. We're looking to do business with the companies that believe the things that we believe. That is companies that have high levels of commitment, trust, communication, they do better financially than companies that don't have those things. And along those lines mentioning, just before we wrap here, we are at the 15th annual ACGSV Awards tonight where they're honoring two award winners. The Outstanding Growth Award winner is Arista Networks and the Emerging Growth winner is Adesto Technologies, excited to talk to them later. But I wanted to get a little bit of perspective on you've been involved as a board member of ACSG since last year. Tell me a little bit about what makes ACGSV worthy of your time. Oh, absolutely. Well, that's a great question. It's just an extraordinary community. I think the top leaders in Silicon Valley come together, the monthly keynotes, add a lot of value, it's an intimate setting and there's real conversations that are taking place on topics that are relevant to today's professionals. For me to be able to engage and hopefully add some value as a board member is a privilege. And you can hear probably a lot of those conversations going on right behind Zach and me tonight. Zach, it's been a pleasure to have you on theCUBE. Thank you so much for giving us some of your time. Oh right, thank you, Lisa. For theCUBE, I'm Lisa Martin on the ground. Thanks for watching.


Do you want additional 200 points in your comprehensive rankings course system to get permanent residency to Canada? If you do, then please watch this video till the end because it might be very interesting for you. So, when I talk about an additional 200 points, I'm sure it makes a lot of sense to you in getting a knock double O for which you get 200 points to Canada. Now, in today's video, I'm going to tell you about this program called the Intra Company Work Permit, a very famous program, very, very much viable program for people who are into, based into either a skill, they have special skills related to their companies or they are the executive managers of their company. So, today I'm going to discuss about the nitty-gritty of this program, what we look for, what is my basic assessment of the client and that's how we will roll out all the information to you. I'm Shreem Kapoor, a Canadian immigration lawyer and here today I'm going to talk about the ICT program, which you must have heard through different various channels and now it is absolutely a very famous program between amongst the working business class. So what exactly is the Intra Company Work Permit? Basically what happens is that in a lot of countries in the world are part of the GATS agreement, which is the general agreement on trade and tariffs. Because of this, Canada is also a signatory to this, 194 countries are signatory to this treaty of United Nations and because of this, there is a program called the International Mobility Program in Canada, which has a number of LMI exemption codes in it. So, one of the LMI exempted code is the C12, also very famously known as the Intra Company Work Permit. But who qualifies, what are the criteria that the government is going to look at is another, this thing, information that you need to know in order to understand whether you qualify or not. The first thing that you have to understand is that who can apply for this program. Now, the first, the main reason for this program was to develop was that the parent companies, wherever they are strong based in UAE, based in India, based in Pakistan, wherever you are, you can have a branch office in Canada. Now, what happens when you have a branch office in Canada is that you are able to transfer senior managerial executive of your company, a person who's who's performed duties, who's maybe the owner of the company, maybe the senior most person, or somebody who's got specialized knowledge expertise, somebody who's a technical guy in your company and you want to transfer that person to the parent, to the branch company in Canada. Either it can be a branch or it can be a subsidiary or it can be an affiliation. That is when we look at your papers and we look at your corporate structuring, we decide what kind of structure will work for you in Canada. So, once you have that particular reason out in front of you, once your person has gone to Canada and the person reaches Canada, the program can get you an additional 200 CRS hike in your score after one year of experience in Canada. Now, why? Because this is an LMIA exempted, so you do not get immediate points like an LMIA approved work permit. But what does happen is that the parent company will open the branch company as a senior most executive person of the company, you will go into Canada and establish your business there, run yourself, run your company there and be eligible for Canadian permanent residency in a matter of say one year, which is like really nothing compared to the other programs that are available. The good thing about intra company work permit processing is that it can sometimes in most of the countries it falls under the global skill strategy because it is LMIA exempted. Now, what do I mean by saying global skill strategy? If we give every document, pick and span to the immigration qualities along with your application when we are filing for the first time along with all your requisite details, requisite documents of your company, Canadian company, Indian, the home-based country, the parent company, every document reaches them, then you are maybe you are eligible to be assessed in a matter of simply two weeks. So we've recently got approvals also in less than two weeks and believe me it is very much possible that the intra company work permit can get you that fast processing of work permit including you and your dependents. Now where and who which companies can do it, it is very important for you to understand that one year of relationship between you and your company needs to be there between the employer and the employee in the parent site. That is only when that is only possible either you are the owner or you have your form 16 or you have your other particular proof documents in place. Now this we will have to assess country by country in whichever country you are like Dubai does not have tax residence so the salary certificates are not there but there are certain things which are possibly the tax papers are not there but there are certainly things which are possibly there in which we will see what are the alternative routes to establish that. The second thing is that a lot of people ask me that does the branch company have to do the same work as the parent company? So it is my suggestion to you that the holistically the principally you remain the same policy wise you might vary in terms of the product, in terms of the trade you are doing you can obviously expand but all in all your whole business looks the same because obviously a parent company running out to opening and expanding operations in the different companies because the parent company's work is doing pretty well and it wants to either increase its import, export or other things. Now a lot of people also have this particular query about intra company work permit is that when exactly can you land in Canada on that work permit? Now what happens is when you get an approval the work approval letter is given to you you will go to port of entry you will submit all your documentation again there and I'm sure your consultant or lawyer can help you with the port of entry interview if it if at all it is is that you will reach their submit your file everything is going to be there they will reassess they might just ask you a particular question might not ask you a particular question you have to be really lucky and they will issue you a work permit then and there that is the time period on your work permit from which your one year period starts. Now if you after one year still do not after 200 points also do not qualify for a Canadian experience class by all grace because the intra company work permit really does not need any education not much isle score is it's like there is no such formality which is required right like in the other programs so if you reach there and even after one year you're not able to pull it off the PR file through then there is alternatives of getting a PNP or there is an alternative of extending your work permit which can be extendable up to seven years so in my whole file preparation and in whole diligence of the documents and whenever we prepare the file my goal is to understand the goal of the client now why is that important because if your goal is to establish your branch or establish some business there you want to bring in your investments to Canada you want to bring in your funds to Canada you want to actually get permanent residency to Canada international mobility program does has things that do not you do not need to get into the labour market and intra company work permit is one such beneficial route now if you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact us reach out to us on our link in the description box and I'm sure you will get the answers to your questions and if you have not watched our webinar on buying a business in Canada the link is in the description box do check it out and thank you everybody for attending the webinar it was a great pleasure we keep we plan to keep hosting those webinars regularly and stay tuned to our channel and social media handles for everything thank you


Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel. In this lesson, I want to talk about syncopation and how you can first of all create a syncopated rhythm. The definition is of no great significance for me. It's more how you can use it on the piano in the most organic way possible. And today will be about chords using syncopation with chords and getting both your hands to kind of evenly groove together. And the way I understand syncopation is from a percussionist's point of view. Whether it's a drummer or tabla player, a mridangam player, whoever it might be, I'm sure all percussionists agree that groove or rhythm is created when the low chats with the high or when the low drum or the kick drum or the bass tabla will have a conversation with the higher instrument or the snare drum. So the groove I made in the beginning of the lesson, you observed it perhaps from the point of view of me making it on the body, something like this. So that was my rhythm. And then I executed it on the piano and it kind of sounded at least to my ear or to my view pretty much the same as what it was on the body. So versus if you bring that, so the whole lesson is going to be about taking, or first of all, creating a rhythm organically and then bringing it on to our piano.  And I we should always believe that when we play an instrument, it is an extension of our personality in a sense. So when someone hears you playing the piano, it should just sound like you, right. So moving forward, I'm going to show you a chord pattern, a very simple chord pattern. I've made a note of all the inversions as well. So you can play it with whichever styling you would want or whichever shape you'd like. And then we'll get into how to play it on the piano, what should the left hand play, what should the right hand play, we're going to do ghost notes, we're going to talk about that a bit, because that's important for groove. We're also going to look at a bass filler, a couple of these bass fillers. We'll also look at right hand variations with the chords. And then there's going to be a bonus. So make sure you hang around till the end, where I'm going to show you a bonus way of playing this. I don't know why they call it bonus, even we've decided to call stuff bonus, which is the last thing we do in the lesson, which will be very cool. Okay, so let's get cracking. So the first thing is the rhythm pattern. So how I created this rhythm pattern, if I simplify it to maybe most more easier rhythms, like maybe everyone's favorite. We will rock you. If you take a rhythm like that, or if you take a thresio, something like, you've created it, but you've created it with pitch, with a pitch difference between the low and the high. So for me, the low I'm playing here, I generally prefer to play it on the chest. It gives me a nice deep sound, also gets me to feel the pulse some in some way, or maybe it's just me and maybe you can hit something else. Yeah, if you have a problem or a medical issue, please don't hit your chest. Just I'm just doing it. It's also easy for me to explain it in a video like this. You could also consider, you know, using a bongo, a bongo like this would be helpful. This will give you the low pitch and that would give you the high pitch. So bongos are equally useful and it's a great simulation for the piano. So we've looked at, we will rock you and the thresio, very common rhythms. We will rock you was kick, snare, kick, kick, snare, kick, kick, snare. While the thresio was boom, that's left, right, right. So it's pretty much your hands. So you tell yourself, what should my hand pattern be? So if you have this sort of a rhythm, that's left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, and so on. Now you can do these patterns pretty much on your own. So just let your mind free, let loose if the, as the phrase goes and see what you can do with your two hands. Think of a genre like reggae or maybe something Indian. And just see how your hands interact with each other. So create your own grooves. However, for this lesson, I've prepared one for you, which I like, which I use very often. So let me do it on the body and explain it. I'll play it first. So if you only isolate the left, it'll be do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, and the right. So you have four beats here and you have four beats here working together in eighth notes. If you count it one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one, right. But a boring way to have done it would have been, well, it's not boring, it's just common. People have heard it before or even more boring would be to maybe do it together. You won't find anyone whacking both tabla's or both the kick and the snare together, maybe in heavy metal music, but yeah. So the rhythm I have for you is a kind of juggle between the two hands in an irregular way.  It's the two hands having an equal say in the conversation.  Higher pitch is my snare. So only my kick. The snare. If you're getting confused with my strange vocal syllables, I would suggest to just look at the notation which is prepared for you. So go through the notation and also if you don't read notation, it's okay. You can see the hit points which we've laid out there, which shows you one and two and three and four and to a point that you can see, okay, this hand has to come in at the end of the two and once you get it, get it very, very naturally into your system and it should eventually be smooth. You should be able to do this rhythm wherever or whenever at different speeds perhaps. You could also, what I do is I sometimes hit the kick as a slap and sometimes like this. Like we do on percussion instruments. So you get that sort of a, so you get different textures which you anyways will get on the piano, right? We have not come to the piano yet. So there we have it. Try it as quick as you can or as slow as you can. Same. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, bass. Right. Snare. And I'm kind of deliberately doing the bass with my left hand on a bassier sounding part of the body like my chest while I'm doing the treble deliberately in my right hand on a more treble part of the body, which is my leg, right? So that kind of gives you a very good simulation of what's to come on the piano because the right hand hits are going to be what you did on your leg. While the left hand simulation would be what you did here. So becomes pretty much the same correlation, right? So now let's bring in those chords. You cannot play the piano without those fancy chords. So D minor, first chord, G minor, second chord. Come back to D minor. I've kept it very easy for you guys. So D minor, G minor, come back to D minor and then end with A major. I'm using these inversions.  Depending on which flavor, which style you like of each chord. Okay. Follow my inversion chart as well. I've given you with unique colors how you can move from each triad or each chord to the next chord in the most efficient way possible. And if you're new to the subject of chord inversions, we've prepared a neat playlist called chord inversions. So check it out all the way from the very, very beginning. And there are lots of exercises even for advanced people. Check out the playlist of chord inversions after the lesson. First finish this lesson. Okay. So you go this is my pattern. Let me play it on the piano so you can internalize it and then let me break this all down. As you can see the same pattern is getting moved for each chord. D minor, G minor, D minor, A, D minor, G minor, D minor, A minor job. So it's the same. Pretty much the same pattern, the same pattern actually. So in your left hand, right now I would advise you to start off the process by playing single octaves that would be D and the thumb on the octave, whack together and the right hand playing the chord in whichever inversion you prefer. I'm going with A, D, F. So I'll only do D minor. Practice it on your drum or body percussion as well to and fro. Sometimes it's very important if you're struggling to get this rhythm. It's always very important to focus on some simple things like focus on your breathing, breathe easy, relax. Take a few breaths if you can while playing, play a bit softer. You could even consider closing your eyes. That helps me a lot. It allows you to be one with the music and you don't it's looking at the piano sometimes is like going to like the 50th story of some building and looking down is really scary because there's so much going on with the 10 fingers. So sometimes you can take a step back or in this case just close your eyes or focus on more bigger picture things like breathing comfortably while you play. Just closing your eyes and enjoying your own music which you are producing. So those are a few tips to nail it to really nail the syncopation. Also when you close your eyes and when you focus you'll also improve your dynamics like you can play softer, get louder or maybe make some chord hits longer, legato and some staccato. Very different flavor right? There we go. Great. So let's make the left hand a bit more interesting. Now you've learned the pattern. I hope you can play the pattern, could even pause the video at certain times and practice and then hit play or whatever. I'd like to now dissipate the left hand instead of doing with root and octave played or whacked together. I would say go. Okay. Okay, so that's root, octave, octave again and then the fifth. Okay, slower. So root, octave, octave back to fifth. These are also what we call ghost notes which are a bit more softer and a bit more staccato. And make the music a lot more interesting because otherwise it was both root and octave together. Sometimes very forceful in the bass register. So the right hand is still going. With the chords D minor, G minor and I've made it easy. Come back to D minor. That's the syncopation. Once you get it, develop some confidence, played a bit slower if you want, focus on your dynamics and so on. So once you've got cracking with this rhythm, I've also introduced a nice bass filler which you could try. Let me play it and then teach you. This is at the A chord. So G minor, D minor, A, A, G, F, E, A, G, F, E, D, A, G. It kind of goes nicely back to the root and it recycles, making the pattern I guess less monotonous because you're adding that bass flavour at the end. So I'll only show you over the A. It's designed to come back to the D. So Okay. This has all been notated for you. So do check out the notation if you read notation. Otherwise, you can just follow along. Let's do the whole thing. Eat, recycle, put some dynamics. But it all came from, just came from that simple groove which you could have come up with on your balcony or wherever you would, wherever you felt the inspiration from, you know. So let's do something in the right hand as well which I do quite often. So I've looked at a bass fill. Now the right hand could go, check that out. Nothing great in the right hand, the same hit points but with inversions. So root, first root, next, it's not going to be root of the next chord rather just figure it out based on the very next inversion. So if you're having an issue with this chord played this way, or you can ignore it for the A because you're doing the bass filler at the A that may be a bit tricky. So with the right hand inversion options, so that's without inversions. Now there we have it. That's your D minor, G minor, D minor. Right, so we've looked at pitch variations in the left hand, we've looked at pitch variations in the right hand, inversions there, ghost notes here and we've looked at a nice, that nice bass filler you have there. Now what I'd like to do is showcase a few approaches which I do very often to a rhythm I have created. I'll try and think of the rhythm in two different ways and these ways are going to be very, very helpful and I would encourage you once you've made a rhythm, once you've played it on the keyboard, try to think of the rhythm in these two perspectives which we are calling as our bonus tips. Very, very important I do this all the time. The first thing is, are you playing this rhythm staccato? The answer is a yes, isn't it? So think of the opposite of staccato. What is the opposite of staccato? Lagato. So a great way to develop lagato would be to hold down your pedal and play the same music. Immediately the pedal just changes the mood. The fact that it's brought out the lagato just makes it a lot more serious and a lot more journey-like, you know, as opposed to the earlier version which is more dancy. I guess staccato had all to do with that while the non-dancey version with the pedal held and also legato fingers with a lot of dynamics. This is the lagato. So try it. Of course now I'm getting carried away but the same rhythm. Now staccato and play around with both. It's the exact same rhythm. Lagato with a lot of dynamics. Staccato. There we have it. That's very very important and you could even do it in the same song perhaps. It depends on what you enjoy but when you make a rhythm, remember it can be presented to the listener or depending on what story or what theme you have for your music, plate, lagato or else staccato. So the last bonus tip which I'd like to leave you with in this lesson would be swing. So let's swing now. So you take the same rhythm pattern. Now this is going, it's going pretty much on a straight field. What you could consider is swing it and see how that sounds. Completely change the vibe of the whole music. So straight. Swing. Same tempo. The body wants to move this way as opposed to straight I guess for the straight version swing. Maybe that's why they called it straight or swing. I don't know. Please that's how I move. How do you move? Let me know in the comments. Okay. So these are some of the bonus ideas which I thought I'll share with you as well. So let's summarize everything so far. We took a very, very simple syncopated rhythm pattern with our hands on the body or you can do it on a bongo or something. Then we looked at analyzing that over a chord progression. The chord progression is D minor, G minor, D minor, A major. Then we played the pattern in a vanilla style. Just left and right hand. Then we looked at ghost notes in the left. Then we looked at inversion movements in the right or before that we did the bass filler in the left. Right. Then we looked at some inversion movement. Right. In the right hand. Then we looked at embellishing it legato staccato or revisiting it in those two different styles of flavors. And lastly I talked about the difference between straight and swing music. So you can pretty much make anything which was straight swing or anything swing which was once straight. Right. So we've also done a YouTube lesson on straight versus swing. You should check it out. It'll cover a lot of examples which we've come up with. So make sure you watch that if you want to gain the difference between straight feel and the swing feel. Also on ghost notes, bringing ghost notes into the party, we have a nice lesson on ghost notes. As I said earlier, chord inversions. If you have any kind of doubts, perhaps you could go over our playlist on chord inversions. Right, guys. Again, this is Jason here from Nathaniel. I hope you found the lesson useful. And I hope that you can use this approach with a lot of your own personalized chord patterns. Again, this is Jason here from Nathaniel. If you haven't already, don't forget to subscribe to our channel. And if you have subscribed, hit the bell icon for regular notifications. Whenever we release a new lesson, you will not miss it because we release a lot of content on YouTube. So something which may have been released, let's say last week, you may not have even seen it because of you have not hit that button. Right. 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