18) Making an accompaniment - Left Hand Patterns (part II)

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[Post #18] We concentrate now on the "discontinuous accompaniments" as we called them in the previous post. These accompaniments do not present a continuous flow of notes of the same duration along the whole bar.

You can use these accompaniments or the continuous one, there are no rules, it depends on personal taste, inspiration, music, etc. 

Here are some examples of discontinuous accompaniments. The patterns with a red mark on the left side are the ones I recorded. I choose only a few of them because I think these patterns (and how to create our own) should be now pretty clear:
Discontinuous accompaniments in
major key (part 1)
Discontinuous accompaniments in
major key (part 2)

Discontinuous accompaniments in
major key (part 3)

The same things are valid for the minor mode, here are some examples:
Discontinuous accompaniments
in a minor key (part 1)

Discontinuous accompaniments
in a minor key (part 2)


Finally some patterns in different musical Tempo:
Accompaniments in 3/4
Accompaniments in 6/8

In the next two post, we will learn how to analyze the structure of a piece of music and how to choose the best structure for our compositions. We will then make a short analysis of a famous song for piano "River Flows In You" by Yiruma. We will see that the knowledge of some of the techniques, patterns, progressions, etc that we learned in the previous posts are essential to creating a successful composition.



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