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Play a chord with both hands

https://www.pianochord.org/two-hands.html

Playing chords with two hands has two reasons:

 It can be necessary for when the chord include many notes


 It can create a richer sound for other chords that also can be played with one hand.

Usually the left hand will play the Root and the Fifth.

Open voicings such as these will in general sound better when the notes in the bass isn't to near each
other.

Extended chord mustn’t be played with two hand because there are possible to omit notes and use
inversions.

Nevertheless, playing these chords with two hands will often fulfill the potential of colorful sounds.

There are many possibilities of chord forming with ten fingers available. As said before, try to have
some distance from the first bass note and any if many notes are needed near each other they often
sounds best when in the middle part of the chord construction.

Exemple:

1. A two-hand version of C major can be played with the left hand playing C - G and with the
right playing E - G - C on the next octave.

2. The G7 chord can be played with two hands with left hand playing G-D and the right hand
playing F-G-B on the next octave.

A few ideas of left hand notes:

 only the root


 the root and it's octave
 the root and the fifth

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