two different styles of voicing

[playhear]

Why is the style you chose easier for you?

These two styles have vastly different sounds.  Maybe one of you pros can explain the most effective times to use a certain style.

[ferrente]

I have about the same comfort level with both styles. I will explain how I use both styles.

If I were to play a Classical style of music:
I would use this style:  chording with your left, playing melody notes with your right


When playing Gospel I would use this style:
 chording and playing melody with your right, playing simple bass line with your left.

But, with the bass line I would  2 of 3 finger notes for the bass line to have a full sound.
This can be done on Organ, Piano and Keyboard.

[elio]

When I'm playing by myself I tend to play full chords with my RH, and accent the melody notes. This is slightly easier than picking the inversion that keeps the melody on top. With my LH I play octaves, fifths, thirds or tritones - hardly ever full chords. I think I do it because my RH is stronger than my LH and I have better control over it  .

When I'm playing with a bass player (and they know what they are doing) I try to move up an octave and not play the root. I end up playing my favourite inversions of two-handed chords.

I need to improve on this...

[sjonathan02]

When I'm playing by myself I tend to play full chords with my RH, and accent the melody notes. This is slightly easier than picking the inversion that keeps the melody on top. With my LH I play octaves, fifths, thirds or tritones - hardly ever full chords. I think I do it because my RH is stronger than my LH and I have better control over it  .

When I'm playing with a bass player (and they know what they are doing) I try to move up an octave and not play the root. I end up playing my favourite inversions of two-handed chords.

I need to improve on this...

I do this, also. My LH sucks, big time. I'm trying to get better.

[playhear]

Playing LH chords is easier for me.  I'm practicing playing the other way because the other way sounds fuller when playing solo.  Also, playing RH chords, you can turn a sheet music page without too much interruption in sound.

I think LH chords are easier for me because that's how the cat who first taught me how to play something showed me.  So, I was practicing LH chords from the get go.  Now, I'm working on the other method.

When playing left hand chords, it works best with a bassist and not playing the root.  Or, even if playing solo, I prefer playing the LH chords toward middle C and up.  Else, the full LH chord sounds muddy in the lower registers.

[Spiritfingaz]

I switch back and forth because I have syncopation problems with running bass lines with left and chords in the right hands. For whatever reason it feels more natural to do chords with my left and chords in my right hand that follow the melody or to switch it up and do chords in the left with octaves of the melody in the right, I can syncopate my rhythms that way, but if I try it with straight chords in right and bass in left its too plain for what I like to do. A lot of times though, since chords in the left don't always fit for what the song is trying to do I'll do a chromatic movement with left and right so things are still full and you feel a bass line, but its not your traditional bass line. I gotta work on the other method though…..