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      • Red River Valley
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      • I overlooked an orchid
      • I recall a gypsy woman
      • I walk the line
      • Me and Bobby McGee
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      • Moon River
      • Old flames
      • Rambling Rose
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      • Roses are red my love
      • Send me the pillow ...
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      • You're my best friend
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      • My grandfather's clock
      • Oh, what a beautiful morning
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      • Star-Spangled Banner
      • Streets of Laredo
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      • This land is your land
      • Wabash cannon ball
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      • Wildwood flower
      • Worried man blues
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      • You are my sunshine
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      • An old Christmas card
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      • Jingle Bells
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      • Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
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      • Beautiful Sunday
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      • Love me when I'm old ...
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      • How beautiful Heaven must be
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      • Just a closer walk with Thee
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      • Kum ba yah
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      • Mine eyes have seen the glory
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      • Shall we gather at the river
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      • How great Thou art
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      • Spirit, Open My Heart
      • Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness
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      • Be Thou My Vision
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      • Jesus loves me
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      • Take time to be holy
      • Trust and Obey
      • We love the place O God
      • What a Friend we have in Jesus
      • Will your anchor hold
      • Wonderful_words_of_life
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      • Away in a manger (WJK)
      • The First Noel
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      • Go, tell it on the mountain
      • Hark the herald angels sing
      • I heard the bells (Marks)
      • I saw three ships
      • Joy to the world
      • Mary's Little Boy Child
      • O come, all ye faithful
      • O little town of Bethlehem
      • Silent Night
      • When a child is born
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      • Lord, don't give up on me
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    • BINGO
    • (My Darling) Clementine
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    • If you're happy
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    • Mary had a little lamb
    • Pop Goes The Weasel
    • Twinkle little star
    • Where has my little dog gone
Button-Accordion Tutorial  Project

(Dual-row A-D, D-G, G-C or C-F, with Accidentals)
Based on  tunes2play4fun.com  &  Facilitated by ZOOM
​


Advanced Tutorial Materials for Individualized Session
​

An Overview of Harmonic Matching

Between Bass-end Chords & Treble (inside-row) Notes


Tutorial Slides with Comments & Explanations
​
(If you are not ready for these materials, that is OK.  We'll return to it later
in BA1 & BA2 instructional sessions when you have had more experience.)

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Zoom Slide 1

This slide set has been prepared for participants who would like to add chordal harmony (outside & inside bass-end chords) to  melodies (played on the inside treble row).

​Use as much or as little of this as you find useful at this time.

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Zoom Slide 2       

Summary:

​Consonance sounds great.

​Some dissonance can add interest.

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Zoom Slide 3
​
Summary:

Music can affect our emotions, with a whole range of feelings from "joy" to "tension".



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Zoom Slide 4 - Labelling CHORD
               
    buttons on the bass-end:

Outside bass row
Buttons   ob1 (push)  and  ob1* (pull)
Buttons   ob3 (push)   and  ob3* (pull)

Note that
:      ob1 (push) = ob3* (pull)

Inside bass row
Buttons   ib1 (push)  and  ib1* (pull)
Buttons   ib3 (push) =  ib3* (pull)
The next two "consonance-reference" tables are borrowed from Unit 4 of the Intermediate BA2 mini-course, and represent one listener's conclusions about the consonance matching between each note (on the the inside treble row) and each of the chords (on the bass-end).   Other listeners, with different accordions and listening skills, may draw different conclusions, and that is OK.  Trust your own accordion and judgement.

Table 1 (below) shows that, for one listener at least, on the PUSH, the outside bass-end chord button ob3, provides great (or at least good) consonance with the treble inside-row buttons 2 to 9, but only fair with button 10.  The blank spaces show matchings with significant dissonance, usually (though not always) avoided.
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Zoom Slide 5 - Consonance Table 1

For bellows PUSH:
​
Playing individual treble buttons (2 to 10) on inside row  ...

along with the available bass-end chord buttons.

Referenced here to a G-C accordion, but ​the button numbers (treble & bass) apply to all such dual-row accordions.

​Table 2 (below) shows that, for this same listener, on the PULL, the outside bass-end chord button ob3* provides great consonance with the treble buttons 3* & 6*, and good consonance with buttons 2*, 4*, 7*, 8* and 10*, but only fair consonance with buttons 5* and 9*.
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Zoom Slide 6 -  Consonance Table 2

For bellows PULL:
​
Combining the individual treble buttons (2* to 10*) on inside row  ...

with the available bass-end chord buttons.

Referenced here to a G-C accordion, but the matching button numbers (treble & bass) apply to all such dual-row accordions.

For this listener, on the PULL, a great consonance can be achieved using the bass-end inside-row chord button ib3* with the treble buttons 4* and 8*, and a good consonance with treble buttons 5* and 9*.   

This inclusion of ib3* with treble inside-row buttons 4*, 5*, 8* & 9* often (though not always) represents harmonic improvement.   For reasons that we will get to in later BA2 instruction sessions, there are tunes where other bass-end chord buttons may be preferred.
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Normally at this stage you have a choice of

  •         EITHER a brief tap of the indicated chord button for each treble note,
  •         OR pressing and holding each chord button for the length of each treble note played.
​
        Some tunes may sound better one way, and some the other.   

        HERE, I'm encouraging you to use the press & hold method, playing the chord button for the
        same length of time that you play each treble button.  That is, you play them both together.

The practice melodies that follow are given with two versions for playing bass-end chords:

                  Version 1 features only the bass-end outside chord buttons o3 and o3*.

                  Version 2 features o3 & o3*, and also the inside chord button i3*

​
                   Each is first illustrated in the next slide with a single line in two tunes.

You may observe that:
                     the melody (treble) button-notes are shown above
                                              the lyrics, and
                     the chord (bass-end) buttons are shown underneath


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Slide 7 - Chordal Accompaniment

Version 1:  For inside treble row, our
       our main (most often used) bass-
       end chords are on buttons ob3
       and ob3*

Version 2:  Improved consonance
      by playing inside chord ib3*
      with inside-row treble note 4* (on
      pull)




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Slide 8 - Chordal Accompaniment

Version 1: Use only chords ob3 & ob3*

Version 2:  Improved consonance by
​       including inside chord ib3*

On way of proceeding: Do version 1 for all the tunes;  then do version 2 for all of them.

Alternate:  Do version 1, followed by version 2, for each of the tunes.

​Your choice.

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Zoom Slide 9 - Practice
​
Version 1:  First verse of This Land is
      Your Land.

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Zoom Slide 10  - (Optional) Practice

​Version 2:  First verse of This Land is
      Your Land.

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Zoom Slide 11 - Practice

Version 1:  First verse of Jesus
        Loves Me.

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Zoom Slide 12 - (Optional) Practice

Version 2:  First verse of Jesus
        Loves Me.

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Zoom Slide 13 - Practice

Version 1  First half of first verse of 
       Down in the Valley.

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Zoom Slide 14 - (Optional) Practice

Version 2:  First half of first verse of 
       Down in the Valley.

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Zoom Slide 15 - Practice

Version 1:  First verse of NL hymn
       We Love the Place O God.

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Zoom Slide 16 - (Optional) Practice

Version 2:  First verse of NL hymn
       We Love the Place O God.

Closing Comments:  1.  In our BA1 & BA2 coverage of this topic we assume that the best
                                     sounding chord match for each treble note, when played in isolation,
                                     will also be the best match when used in a melody.  For somewhat
                                     complex reasons, that we may explore in a future BA3 (if there is
                                     one), there are melodies with musical phrases where this is not
                                     necessarily the case, and where other chords may sound better.


                                 
 2. Coordinating the left & right hands can be a challenge for beginners.
                                       Lots of practice and lots of patience are required.  However,
                                       using the bass & chord buttons can add to the fun of the button
                                       accordion.