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      • Waltz across Texas
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      • Jingle Bells
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      • If I should fall behind
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      • Be Thou My Vision
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      • Softly and tenderly
      • Take time to be holy
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      • What a Friend we have in Jesus
      • Will your anchor hold
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      • Away in a manger (JRM)
      • 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
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      • 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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    • Billy_Boy
    • BINGO
    • (My Darling) Clementine
    • Frere Jacques
    • If you're happy
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    • Mary had a little lamb
    • Twinkle little star
    • Where has my little dog gone
Button-Accordion Tutorial  Project

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

MINI-COURSE BA2
Intermediate Melodies & Tunes
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UNIT FIVE (of TEN)

​HARMONIC BASS-BEATS FOR SIMPLE-TIME TUNES

(For Inside Treble Row Melodies & Bass-Row Cross-Playing )


Return to BA2- Unit 5

​SLIDE SET & NOTES - INSTRUCTIONAL SESSION FIVE

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SLIDES            COMMENTS & EXPLANATIONS

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Welcome to Unit 5 of BA2, our intermediate-level dual-row button-accordion mini-course.

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In the tunes covered in Unit 5 there is equal emphasis on beats and harmony.

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The first three topics in Unit 5 include a brief review of earlier work on beats and beat notation, and on bass-end chords.

Topics 4 to 6 cover tunes with a consistent beat (for both common-time and waltz-time), with equal attention to harmonious chordal accompaniment.

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Suggested ways of tapping beats using bass-end buttons.

In Unit 5 our emphasis is on suggestion (ii), alternating between single bass and chord taps.

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Two of the reasons for "beats".

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​Review of (a) bars & (b) bar lines, with (c) a "waltz-time" example. 

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Reviews of bars & bar lines with (d) a "common-time" example.

Plus (e) a suggestion about playing the first beat in each complete bar.

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Featured Tune (i)

Mary had a little lamb

A review (BA1-Unit 10) of tapping beats using bass-end button ob4 or ob4* for the first beat in each complete bar, and ob3 or ob3* for the remaining beats, when playing melody on inside row.


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C Chord​ = C, E & G

On a G-C accordion -
        Bass button o3

Bass button o3 (push) is harmonious with all the treble inside-row buttons from 2 to 10.

​On a G-C accordion each of these treble buttons, on push, is either a C, an E or a G.

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​G chord
= G, B & D

On a G-C accordion -
       Bass button o3*

Bass button o3* (pull) is harmonious with the treble inside-row buttons 2*, 3*, 6*, 7* & 10*.

On a G-C accordion each of these treble buttons, on pull, is either a  B or a  D.


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F Chord = F, A & C

On a G-C accordion -
         Bass button i3*


Bass button i3* (pull) is harmonious with the treble inside-row buttons 4*, 5*, 8* & 9* (as well as with the treble note o3*)

On a G-C accordion each of these treble buttons,on pull, is either an F or an A
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Explanation during session instead of showing this slide.

Though the musical notes may be different for different accordions, our accordion button-number notation is transposable among designated accordions, as will be shown in the third slide down.

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Slide 20

Chords ob1* & ib1*

Summary of Chord and accidental matching for tunes played on the treble inner-row . . . for the push on the bellows.

For the most part, as suggested by the table at left, we can ignore chord i3 (push).




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Chords ob3* & ib3* 

​Summary of Chord and accidental matching for tunes played on the treble inner-row . . . for the pull on the bellows.

This table supports the value of cross-playing chord i3* to harmonically match the inside treble buttons i4*, i5*, i8*, i9* and outside button o3*.


Regarding Zoom Slide 22 - Playing Inside Row of Multiple Accordions:

This Button-Accordion mini-course is designed for dual-row diatonic accordions, with rows keyed a fourth apart (as shown for each of the four columns below), and with accidentals on the top button of each row.

As shown by the top half of the table:  If you were playing your accordion on the inside row using sheet music matched to the accordion-key labels (G-C, A-D, etc.) you might be tempted to obtain separate sheets of music for each accordion.   After all, each row of each accordion is in a different key (and thus a different set of notes).

However, as implied by the bottom half of the table:  You need only one set of our accordion notation for playing on the inside row of each accordion, as the button numbers are the same for each column (G-C, A-D, etc.). 

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Top half of table:  Musical key & chord info on four common diatonic button accordions.

Bottom half of table:
The relationship between 
the bass-end chord labels (such as ob3, ib3*, etc.) and the treble inside-row button labels (such as 2, 3*, etc.) is the same for the inside rows of the four button accordions listed.
Postscript to Slide 22 - Notation for Outside & Inside Treble Rows: 

While the same diatonic notation can be used for most melodies on both the inside and outside rows, there are some (especially those that involve accidentals, bass harmonization, and cross-playing) for which you may need a separate sheet, or (at least) an explanatory footnote.

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In BA1, Units 8 to 10, the emphasis was on "tapping" beats and beat patterns.

In BA2, Unit 4, the emphasis was on chordal harmony

In this Unit 5, both are considered equally important.



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​Three-chord harmony for inside-row melodies

On a G-C accordion, the three chords are C, F & G  (ob3, ib3*, ob3*)

On an A-D accordion, the three are D, G & A (ob3, ib3*, ob3*)

On a F-C accordion, the three are F, Bb & C (ob3, ib3*, ob3*)

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The tunes pages on the tunes2play4fun.com site do not show the bass-end chords explicitly.

What you may notice in this Unit is that the ib3* chord  (pull) is matched to treble (inside-row) buttons 4*, 5*, 8*, 9* and o3*.  For all push & the remainder of pulls, with inside treble row, use ob3 & ob3*, respectively.


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Notation & first beat options

TOPIC 6:  Home Practice Suggestions.
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Notation & extended note options.

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Featured tunes

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Beat options for favorite tunes.

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​Twinkle, twinkle, little star

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Love Me Tender
​(B C C C beat pattern)

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Love Me Tender

Optional beat pattern
(B&C) C C C

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​Morning Has Broken

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On Top of Old Smokey

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Home Practice List

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Mussels In The Corner

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Long, Long Ago

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For He's A Jolly Good Fellow

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Black Velvet Band

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Edelweiss

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Down In The Valley

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Reminder of next week's Individualized Sessions.

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Check on individual times.

TOPIC 8:  Looking Ahead to Unit 5
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