Picking Up the Pieces: A Piano Practice Journal

In any song I write, I have what I'll charitably call "my signature sound." I wrote about it a few weeks ago . It's the repetitive, broken-chord sound, root-fifth-root-fifth-root-fifth pattern, ad nauseam . I know it sounds crazy, but I never could figure out what else to do with my left hand. So anytime I played anything where the music wasn't dictated to me on a page, I would fill in the accompaniment with this signature sound. A few days ago, I posted a tune/accompaniment that I came up with while working on major severth chords . I didn't realize it until a day or two later, but it's kind of a big deal this little song uses block chords instead of the old broken-chord signature sound in the left hand. This is huge! I'm choosing not to kick myself for not getting to this point when I was in my teens. At this point, I'm just happy to be returning to the fundamentals and filling in the gaps that have held me back all these years. I don't hate ...