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Standard Accompaniment Patterns

This document provides a list of simple accompaniment patterns for building accompaniment structures. It explains that accompaniment is essentially rhythmically displacing voices from the harmony. A variety of left and right hand patterns are listed, including blocked chords, bass lines, octaves, arpeggios, and percussive blocks. The reader is encouraged to think of their harmony first and then use these and other patterns creatively, building their own library of accompaniment styles.

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Standard Accompaniment Patterns

This document provides a list of simple accompaniment patterns for building accompaniment structures. It explains that accompaniment is essentially rhythmically displacing voices from the harmony. A variety of left and right hand patterns are listed, including blocked chords, bass lines, octaves, arpeggios, and percussive blocks. The reader is encouraged to think of their harmony first and then use these and other patterns creatively, building their own library of accompaniment styles.

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ACCOMPANIMENT
STANDARD
PATTERNS
This guide is not at all exhaustive but
aims to be an inspiration for you if you
feel stuck at any point. Use the short
patterns in here as components to build
bigger structures. Enjoy playing with it!

L E A N M U S I C I A N
Essentially all accompaniment is, is rhythmically displacing voices from
your harmony. That’s it.

Think of your harmony first (usually) and then think how you can use
patterns, voicings, rhythm & groove to make new patterns from the ones
listed below. If one of them doesn’t make sense, re-visit the video in the
course on udemy.com or shoot me a message over at leanmusician.com

The terms below are deliberately vague as to remain non-prescriptive. It’s


my hope that by looking at these (after you’ve gained some experience &
watched the course) you will get your own sense of what that pattern could
mean.

SIMPLE ACCOMPANIMENT
PATTERNS

Left Hand Right Hand


Blocked chords Blocked chords
Blocked chords
Blocked chords
Bass line root notes Blocked chords
Octave root notes Blocked chords
Octave & fifth patterns Blocked chords
Blocked chords Alternating blocked chord pattern

Octaves Two blocked voicings per chord


Blocked chords in clave rhythm Blocked chords in clave rhythm

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Octaves 6/8 Percussive blocks
Octaves (with grace notes) 6/8 Percussive blocks
Octaves (varied rhythms) 6/8 Percussive blocks
In depth bass line Percussive blocks
Walking bass (through all chord
tones) Syncopated block chords (swing)
Simple arpeggiation Octaves on chord tones
Bass line Simple arpeggiation
Simple arpeggiation (in octaves with Simple arpeggiation (in octaves with
RH) LH)
Simple arpeggiation (with RH) Simple arpeggiation (with LH)
Complex arpeggiation (with RH) Complex arpeggiation (with LH)
Simple arpeggiation (independent) Simple arpeggiation (independent)
Complex arpeggiation Complex arpeggiation
(independent) (independent)
Complex arpeggiation Complex arpeggiation with
(independent) elements of melody

I encourage you to continue building your list yourself, with your own
terminology so you know what you’re talking about. Watch and listen to
different piano players and ask yourself ‘what are they doing?’ and if you
find something that is not on this list above (very likely) - add it below and
start expanding your library of accompaniment patterns.

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Left Hand Right Hand

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