Crossed hands today. I decided to play the melody in the lower register with my RH, and the LH crossed over for accompaniment above the melody. Then I decided to play something diatonic in Db Major.
The improvised song itself would probably sound more sappy or corny if I had played with my hands in normal position, but crossing the hands changes everything, and it would have been yet another outcome if I had decided to cross hands and play the melody with my LH and accompany with the RH. It's fun to experiment with this, and as I've said in an earlier post I want to get more fluid and fluent with these techniques. It's an instantaneous remedy for getting out of stuck patterns, until crossed hands themselves becomes routine enough. For me at this point it's as much of an attitude adjustment as a dunk in a cold pool would be!
The improvised song itself would probably sound more sappy or corny if I had played with my hands in normal position, but crossing the hands changes everything, and it would have been yet another outcome if I had decided to cross hands and play the melody with my LH and accompany with the RH. It's fun to experiment with this, and as I've said in an earlier post I want to get more fluid and fluent with these techniques. It's an instantaneous remedy for getting out of stuck patterns, until crossed hands themselves becomes routine enough. For me at this point it's as much of an attitude adjustment as a dunk in a cold pool would be!