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--- before +++ after @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +# Piano, electric piano and organ (hands) + +## Registers + +| Hand | Usual region | Comments | +| --- | --- | --- | +| left | C2 to C4 | bass notes below C3 are single notes or octaves, not thick chords | +| right | C4 to C6 | melody in C5 to C6 sings; above C7 only for effects | + +Electric piano sounds best between E1 and E7; organ between C2 and C7 and +prefers held chords with no octave doublings. + +## Hands + +- Five notes per hand. Span an octave for anything that moves, a ninth for a + held chord. No hand crossing. +- A hand stays over five to eight keys for at least a bar; shifts happen on + long notes or rests. +- Both hands must have the same number of bars. Pad the quieter hand with + rests, not silence. +- Chords with a wide gap between two notes in one hand (a thumb note far + from the rest) are fine if the total span stays within a ninth. + +## Left-hand patterns (pick one per example) + +- Root and fifth in half notes (folk, pop ballad). +- Root-fifth-octave broken in eighths (rock, boogie). +- Alberti bass (low, high, middle, high) in eighths (classical). +- Stride: root or tenth on beats 1 and 3, chord on 2 and 4 (early jazz). +- Walking quarters (jazz), roots and chord tones with one chromatic approach + per bar. +- Shell voicings held for the bar (root and 7th, or 3rd and 7th) while the + right hand plays the melody (jazz comping). + +## Right hand + +- Melody with occasional harmony notes a third or sixth below on strong + beats; full chords on phrase ends. +- Fast passages stay within a five-finger group or a scale pattern; a run of + sixteenths that jumps a sixth on every beat is unplayable at tempo. +- Two-hand comping: right hand plays 3- or 4-note voicings between C4 and + G5, left hand roots or shells; rhythmic hits on offbeats with rests, not + every beat. + +## Avoid + +- Both hands in continuous sixteenths. +- Left-hand chords of four or five notes below C3. +- Octave runs in both hands at fast tempi. +- Changing the left-hand pattern every bar.
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