accordion and simplicity

[andrewjohnsson40]

Hi!
I'm not sure where to post this but anyway...
So some month ago I was talking with a pianist on how he played his traditional/folk melodies and comping on the piano. He told me he took the simple accordion comping style and played it on the piano. To my knowledge it's not easy to play this comping on the piano unless you know stride.
I'm just wondering if you had any ideas on what this guy said. Have youhad any experiences with this?

 

[JEBrown]

I play accordion and I play piano... as you say, unless he means stride, or a simplified version of that, then I'm not sure what else he means. Unless he's just talking about using the chord names and making a rhythm something similar to what you might use on an accordion?

 

[donn]

Simple accordion comping style must mean

1. structure the accompaniment as a chord sequence
2. play the root of the chord on primary beats
3. play the root, 3rd & 5th on other beats (or root, 3rd and 7th), ideally an octave higher

... where the exact rhythmic structure would of course depend on the type of tune.

According to the wikipedia, stride:

The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats. Occasionally this pattern is reversed by placing the chord on the downbeat and bass note(s) on the upbeat.

I guess that sounds like it could be similar in principle, but as its a jazz form, in practice the rhythmic character might be somewhat novel in the context of just any traditional folk tune.