All right, thanks for nodding your head because I wasn't sure which note we're going to stop on but when Todd dropped his head then I knew right signal So when you're just starting out with guitar or piano, it's a great instrument to play in a duet, they're both, they both can be accompanying and they both can play melody you can sing, it offers so many different possibilities. It's one of my favorite duets to play is like piano, just piano guitar. It's really, really fun. So when you're very, very first starting out what the example we just played, we stuck in one with not just one key but one chord, we just decided to play on a G chord. So a G chord is one of the first chords you're probably going to learn on the guitar. So you can just strum it and play with your fingers explore the sound and on the piano, you can kind of do the same thing.

And then as you feel a little more confident, you can move to some of the different notes I would recommend on one of the higher strings like the E string or the B string, just explore some of the sounds, or some of these are thinking about him. Well in this in this song, you know, it's quite easy because I'm just thinking of G and I don't have to move to another chord. So I started out with two of the notes from the G chord, the B and the D. running running pattern, but really, we were just I was focused mostly on being relaxed and staying in aware of my breath so that I'm not holding my breath or that my shoulders aren't creeping up like that. I'm just trying to stay in a calm and confident yoga pose, you know, because really, our bodies are the first instrument that we have.

So I know if I'm in a good state, then I'm gonna have the best chance of playing music that's in a good state. So in this example, you started out with playing some notes, or some chords actually so I was I could focus a bit more on on simple melody patterns and just playing a simple job. And when it comes to making up your own thing and improvising you don't always have to use if you've been taught us particular fingering pattern, you don't always have to stick to that you know, you can Just go to back to one finger if that's if that's what makes sense for your brain because no, I would start with playing a note and singing it. Mm hmm. And then from there, I can hear if I want to go higher or lower. So I'm just I'm just really focused on being still breathing and listening to myself and listening to what you're doing as well.

So part of what we're creating is something that would be called a soundscape which you can think of as, it's like making a painting that's very abstract. So we're coloring outside the lines or making some shapes or maybe painting with both hands at the same time. And just not judging what we're doing. We're making sounds and reacting. And if you think about when really really little kids are starting to speak, they hear the grown ups talking and they look and they sort of just mount sounds that match the the emotional tone that's going on. And at this stage, that's kind of what we're doing.

We're just we're exploring, and he's making a sound and I'm making sound We're both listening and reacting back and forth.