Here's a simple playing pattern with multiple variations that you can apply to a bunch of other songs. Three songs are shown as examples, with playing styles ranging from simple/beginner to more intermediate.
Confession: My pro playing style is nothing but a collection of playing patterns that I switch between. This video explains one of those patterns, with 8 variations you can do with your right hand, and 4 variations you can do with your left hand. For beginning piano players this style of playing sounds more advanced than plodding through basic chords and it's also easier! (That's a win-win.)
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0:00 Intro
1:22 Basics of the Playing Style using With Or Without You
2:15 Adding a Sus2 chord
2:27 Pattern Variations: Arpeggiate up, arpeggiate down, mix it up, pulse
2:47 Playing with those added pattern variations, adding octaves in left hand
3:33 How to build intensity
4:26 Adding octave note in right hand
4:53 Pattern Variation: Playing the 5-note with your left hand after the 1-note
--- ADD 1 2 3 4 5 explanation of the chord scales?????
5:48 Song example #2: Superman, by Five For Fighting
7:05 Song example #3: And She Will Be Loved, by Maroon 5
7:30 Increasing intensity
8:00 Nerd Alert: Understanding why the ringing notes sound good over the chord changes
9:09 Pattern Variation: Alternating 2 & 2 of the 4 right-hand notes
9:39 Pattern Variation: Play an octave higher
10:08 Experiment yourself and impress your friends :-)
10:30 Subscribe for more, for goodness sake, ha ha :-)