Module 8 — Piano Accompaniment Patterns: Turning Chords Into Music

Up to now, you’ve learned how to choose chords. In this module, we make them sound like accompaniment rather than a chord exercise.

The central idea:

Chord symbols tell you the harmony. Accompaniment patterns tell you how that harmony moves in time.

We’ll use one progression for most examples:

C → Am → F → G7

and later:

Dm7 → G7 → Cmaj7