Just learn to control your volume. :D A common mistake most of us accompanists make is making our accompaniment too heavy... but as speciesofspaces said, edit on the fly and/or improvise in terms of volume/playing as you see fit (but not too much
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A lot of times, people would ask me to accompany them and would assure me that the piece "isn't hard" and "it's so easy". This is rarely true, but the more often you sight read things, the better and better you'll get at learning pieces quickly, so take whatever they throw at you
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Well, I can easily say I'm in a similar situation- there are about 400 music majors here, of those, 20-30 are piano majors, and of those, only a handful are proficient enough to accompany
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Good points by everyone above. I started out accompanying as a volunteer, though I encourage you to charge at least a small fee so people won't expect to get something for free every time. Right now I do it as part of my scholarship. My advice is to get into it gradually and don't take on too many people at once. Try it with just one. I feel that it takes me a significant amount of time to learn the music, though some people can just sight read it and be OK. Make sure they get it to you in plenty of time with any changes marked, especially tempo variations. The professionals charge for rehearsal time too. I don't; I encourage the person to get together with me and practice. I have to practice it and so do they - might as well do it together, and we will get more used to each other
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