Q: Do you have any advice for how to get from playing something like a 4-chord progression with all the chords in root position in just one hand to being able to voice them well across both hands like in actual songs? I've been having trouble trying to think of the notes of the next chord and then finding a good way to get to each of them from the notes of the current chord I'm playing quickly enough to not break rhythm
A: get some songbooks (with chord symbols in them). then go through each of the songs (at any speed. stop as much as you want). and make a rule for yourself, of your highest and lowest note that you will be using in the chords. Maybe something like the first G below middle C, and the first A above middle C. Also allow yourself a bass note in a different range, how about between 1 and 2 C's below middle C. so each chord will have 1 note in the bass range, and... about 3 notes in the middle range. you're allowed to omit the bass note from the non-bass range. Then just go through the songbooks and find all the chords, in these ranges. you'll get used to all the patterns very quickly. you'll also start to enjoy the music much more because it will sound better