what am I supposed to do with my left hand when playing piano? I know some options are "play a deep bass note" or "play a bassline" but I'm more interested in what people are doing when they have both hands in the middleish range of the keyboard and are playing more than one note in the left hand. Is that just a means of playing wide chords?
i doubt it. there's hardly even room for 2 hands in the real chordal zone of the keyboard. if someone else is playing the bass, AND someone else is playing the melody, then what i usually do is tie my left hand behind my back. if you are supposed to play the melody and chords both on the instrument, then you're gonna have to put chords in left hand and melody in right hand and to be honest i don't have a lot of experience doing that. if you have chords and no bass player, and you are singing the melody, then i think you definitely are going to want to take care of the bass in the left hand and chords with the right. so as you can see, the piano is like a banquet table. it is used in all different ways depending on how many and who the guests are and make sure you don't put 2 whole turkeys in the exact same spot