

Sign of Amateur Accompanist #2: Chording Right Hand These are the things high-level pros are constantly trying to achieve.

This creates much more resonance and motion and even creates a beautiful countermelody in the left hand. Try spreading out the left-hand accompaniment for a better sound, and incorporate other chord tones and passing tones You’ll have much richer accompaniment if you vary up the chord tones and possibly even add passing tones! In this example, we modified the pattern to the following formula: 1-5-3-5-2-5-3-5. While this may work for a little while and is a good place to start with in terms of left-hand patterns, it can easily become boring after a while! Amateur piano accompanists might be stuck on using the 1-5-1-5 pattern in the left hand The first sign of amateur accompaniment is a very vanilla technique of rocking back and forth on the root and 5th (and possibly an octave of the root) of a chord in the left hand.
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Nobody wants a monotone piano accompaniment on their song. Interestingly, many pianists fall under the same accompaniment traps, which in this lesson we’ll call the “ 7 signs of an amateur accompanist.” This is quite a common issue for beginner pianists and those early on in their musical journey. Do you ever feel that your piano accompaniment sounds repetitive or boring? Or maybe you feel your sound is missing something or feels amateurish compared to the professional recordings you listen to.
