Two Handed Accompaniment

Lesson 2/45 | Study Time: 5 Min

Course: Country Keyboard

Two Handed Accompaniment

When playing in a band or accompanying a singer, one of the most common accompaniment styles of Country keyboard playing is to use alternating bass notes in the left hand part while playing chords with the right hand. The following example demonstrates the chord voicings you have learned played by the right hand.

In the next two examples the left hand plays the bass notes and the right hand plays the chords. The next example uses only the roots of the chords, while the example that follows it alternates between the root and the fifth of each chord.

Here’s one using the same style in ^ time. This time the chord is played twice after each bass note. The bass note is on beat one and the chords are on beats two and three.

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1- The Chords C, F and G 2- Putting it all Together 3- Grace Notes 4- Sixteenth Notes 5- The Major Pentatonic Scale 6- Bass Runs 7- The Key of G 8- Using Seventh Chords 9- Seventh Chords 10- 3rd Intervals 11- Blue Notes 12- Swing Rhythms 13- The Triplet 14- The 12 Bar Blues 15- Using Keyboard Voices 16- INTRODUCTION 17- Using Chords for Accompaniment 18- Chord Inversions 19- Left Hand Variations 20- Alternating Bass Style 21- Two Handed Accompaniment 22- Eighth Note Rhythms 23- Notes on the Keyboard 24- Chord Diagrams 25- Broken Chords 26- D Major Chord Inversions 27- G7 Chord Inversions 28- Syncopation 29- Enharmonic Notes 30- The Shuffle 31- C Major Chord Inversions 32- Chord Charts 33- The C7 Chord 34- The Blues Scale in G 35- G Major Chord Inversions 36- Easy Chord Table 37- F Major Chord Inversions 38- The D7 Chord 39- The F7 Chord 40- Minor Chord Chart 41- Dm Minor Chord 42- F#m Minor Chord 43- Seventh Chord Chart 44- F#7 Seventh Chord 45- New Topic

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Two Handed Accompaniment