Two Handed Accompaniment

Lesson 2/43 | Study Time: 5 Min

Course: Country Piano Method

Two Handed Accompaniment

When playing in a band or accompanying a singer, one of the most common accompaniment styles of Country piano 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. Example 13 uses only the roots of the chords, while example 14 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- Other Keys, 16th Notes, Putting it all Together 2- New Rhythms, Chords and Sounds 3- The 12 Bar Blues 4- The Triplet 5- Swing Rhythms 6- Blue Notes 7- 3rd Intervals 8- Seventh Chords 9- Using Seventh Chords 10- Basic Country Sounds 11- The Key of G 12- Bass Runs 13- The Major Pentatonic Scale 14- Sixteenth Notes 15- Grace Notes 16- Putting it all Together 17- Notes on the Piano 18- Inversions and Arpeggios 19- Using Chords for Accompaniment 20- Chord Inversions 21- Left Hand Variations 22- Alternating Bass Style 23- Eighth Note Rhythms 24- Two Handed Accompaniment 25- INTRODUCTION 26- The Chords C, F and G 27- The C7 Chord 28- The C Major Chord 29- D Major Chord Inversions 30- Broken Chords 31- Syncopation 32- Enharmonic Notes 33- The Shuffle 34- C Major Chord Inversions 35- Chord Charts 36- Easy Chord Table 37- The G Major Chord 38- The Blues Scale in G 39- The D7 Chord 40- G Major Chord Inversions 41- The F Major Chord 42- The F7 Chord 43- F Major Chord Inversions

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Two Handed Accompaniment