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Today, we will continue where we left off in making piano accompaniment for choir.
The new pattern we are looking at today in Ab major, chord I, Ab C Eb, left-hand plays an octave Ab and right-hand plays chords, crotchet and quaver. A little emphasis on the crotchet and a bounce for the quaver.
Incorporating this pattern into hymn no. 112, the first line will be like this:
When we arrive half way through 3rd, here, the harmonies change every beat, so we will opt for single quaver chord and resume back to the former pattern midway 4th bar and thereafter.
Second line, same again,
changes every beat in half way through 3rd bar till the end of 4th bar.
Line 3 chorus, remember when this tutorial series started, we use a bass note and chords on the left hand to accompany the right-hand melody?
Bar 9 > Same idea, if the choir can stay in tune and in time, take out the melody, left-hand plays the octave bass and right-hand plays the chords like this:
Bar 10 > there are 2 chords, so back to crotchets.
Bar 11 > also has 2 chords, we could carry on with crotchets as a choice.
However, if we look at the melody, each note is repeated 3 times, we can try vary the pattern. Play together with the first note, allow the remaining 2 repeated notes to carry on, and fill the remaining quaver space with a chord. This will create movement and feel of moving forward onto the next beat.
Bar 4 > same again, we could use what we have done on the first bar.
Quite often if the line finishes on chord V and the next line starts on chord I, we can link a descending scale from V to I. The left-hand can first play a minim follows by 4 quavers,
or a minim tied to a quaver follows by 3 more quavers may be more effective.
The whole of line 3 will now looks like
Line 4, we can do the same as line 3 for the first 2 bars. As there are more changes in harmonies towards the concluding 2 bars, we will revert into using what we did on line 2. The whole line will now be
After going through what we can do to each line, the arrangement will be like this:
Hosanna Praise 