Button-Accordion Tutorial Project
(Dual-row G-C, A-D, D-G or C-F with Accidentals)
Based on tunes2play4fun.com & Facilitated by ZOOM
MINI-COURSE BA1: BASIC MELODIES
UNIT ONE (of FOUR)
Playing Very-Familiar Melodies
(on the Dual-row Button Accordion)
(Dual-row G-C, A-D, D-G or C-F with Accidentals)
Based on tunes2play4fun.com & Facilitated by ZOOM
MINI-COURSE BA1: BASIC MELODIES
UNIT ONE (of FOUR)
Playing Very-Familiar Melodies
(on the Dual-row Button Accordion)
WEB SLIDE SET
This is a somewhat compacted version of the slides used in the first Zoom session, and is included here primarily for Zoom participants who have already seen the full Unit 1 slide set, and may want to review parts of it.
INSTRUCTIONAL SESSION ONE
This is a somewhat compacted version of the slides used in the first Zoom session, and is included here primarily for Zoom participants who have already seen the full Unit 1 slide set, and may want to review parts of it.
INSTRUCTIONAL SESSION ONE
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Welcome to our basic-level dual-row button-accordion mini-course.
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Disclaimer: This mini-course has been assembled by a (mostly) self-taught player, who is neither a professional musician nor a professional music-teacher, but with a tutoring and instructional development background, and with a new-found love of the button-accordion.
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"Happy Birthday To You" is a classic, with a simple rhythm and a melody that is universally familiar. Start with bellows at mid-point (half-way between closed and a safe-max-open), using air-lever only if needed.
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Play on inside row. Place your first finger at button 3 and your little finger at button 6, covering all the needed buttons with your four right fingers. Start with bellows at mid-point (half-way between closed and a safe-max-open), using air-lever only if needed.
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Play on inside row. Place your first finger at button 2 and your little finger at button 5, covering all the needed buttons with your four right fingers. (You will need button 2 for the Web 2nd half.)
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Someone once claimed that mastering most skills is 10% knowledge and 90% practice. While the actual percentages may be different, the mastery of the button accordion certainly depends on some knowledge combined with lots of practice, preferably in small non-tiring periods that are fun.
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Play on outside row. Place your first finger at button 5 and your little finger at button 8, covering all the needed buttons with your four right fingers. Start with bellows at mid-point (half-way between closed and a safe-max-open).
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Play on either row. Place your first finger at button 4 and your little finger at button 7, covering all the needed buttons with your four right fingers.
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Play on either row. Place your first finger at button 5 and your little finger at button 8, covering all the needed buttons with your four right fingers.
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Looking ahead to Unit 2 . . . summary outline above.
Note that we'll also start Unit 2 with the very familiar Birthday Song, but this time with a focus on melodic rhythm and rhythmic notation.
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Note that we'll also start Unit 2 with the very familiar Birthday Song, but this time with a focus on melodic rhythm and rhythmic notation.
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