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Left Hand Comping
Topic Started: 10 Jul 2009, 11:31 (1,163 Views)
jhugner
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hi,
i love to play popular music but i can only play with sheets. Some songs sound perfect on the piano, but many songs have very little notes for the left hand. On youtube i found very good arrangements of these songs, like
"time after time" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf52hf-jM-Q),
"the way i am" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgXf8-fJgY0)
and "i don't want to miss a thing" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGX6R6HOVeQ).
The chords played by the left hand don't look very difficult to learn...if i had the sheets.

Now my question is if there are some general rules which notes i can play with the left hand. Are there any sites where i can learn something about it. Often chords are written above the bar, but which notes of the chord can i play and in which order?

greetz mat
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yenzephyr
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Intermediate Pianist
when it comes to chords for the left hand, for example, C major (C,E,G) you can do arpeggios. you may also use dotted notes for a variation. of course, C is always the base. you may use the 1st interval if it's C/E. or the 2nd interval if C/G.
You are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.
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maxwell
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in some styles you can alternate a bass note and chord using sustain pedal or as in ragtime you don't need sustain pedal, so for example in a 4/4 rhythm, you hit a C bass note 2 octaves below middle C while using sustain pedal and then on the 3 beats left you just add EGC chord (CEG first inversion) right in middle keys and do the same with the other chords while playing in close range, which means the notes of the next chord have to be as close as possible to the notes of the previous chord, so if the next chord is F for example the base would be F and the chord notes would be in the same position of the previous chord (EGC) but this time playing FAC which is F chord root position and if the next chord is G7 u play G in the bass and add FGBD in the 3 beats left (FGBD is G7 3rd inversion) remember you should always move from chord to chord without being too far on the keyboard from the notes you just played
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lmcchesney
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Are you describing, "stride piano"?
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