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  • CANADA
    • NL - newer >
      • Fishing in a dory
      • Grey foggy day
      • Joe Batt's Arm longliners
      • Loss of the Marion
      • Music and friends
      • Northern Lights of Labrador
      • Outport people
      • Rose in her hair.
      • Saltwater joys
      • Song for Newfoundland
      • Sonny's dream
      • The St. John's Waltz
      • Sweet forget-me-not
      • Take me to the country
      • This Is My Home
      • Woman of Labrador
    • NL - older >
      • Badger drive
      • Cliffs of Baccalieu
      • Feller from Fortune
      • Great big sea hove in ...
      • Harbour Le Cou
      • I rowed up in a dory
      • I'se The B'y
      • Jack was every inch a sailor
      • Kelligrew's Soiree
      • Let me fish off Cape St Mary's
      • Lukey's boat
      • Now I'm 64
      • Ode to Newfoundland
      • Old Brown's daughter
      • Old Polina
      • Ryans and Pittmans
      • Squid jiggin' ground
      • Star of Logy Bay
      • Tiny Red Light
    • OTHER - newer >
      • Bluebird
      • Both sides now
      • Four strong winds
      • Maple-sugar-reel
      • Sea-People
      • Song-for-Mira
      • Working-man
    • OTHER - older >
      • Maggie
      • O Canada
      • Peggy Gordon
      • Red River Valley
    • Christmas Songs >
      • (A) Children's Winter
      • Christmas in the harbour.
      • Mummers song
  • USA
    • USA - newer >
      • Adios Amigo
      • Annie's song
      • Ballad of the Green Berets
      • Blowing in the wind
      • Blue eyes crying in the rain
      • Bridge over troubled water
      • Bye bye love
      • Country roads
      • Crystal Chandeliers
      • Four thousand years ago
      • Have I told you lately that I ...
      • I can't stop loving you
      • I overlooked an orchid
      • I recall a gypsy woman
      • I walk the line
      • Me and Bobby McGee
      • Missing in action
      • Moon River
      • Old flames
      • Rambling Rose
      • Roses are red my love
      • Send me the pillow ...
      • Streets of Laredo
      • Wabash cannon ball
      • Waltz across Texas
      • What a wonderful world
      • You're my best friend
    • USA - older >
      • Down in the valley
      • Happy Birthday
      • My grandfather's clock
      • Star-Spangled Banner
      • You are my sunshine
    • Christmas Songs >
      • An old Christmas card
      • Frosty the Snowman
      • Here comes Santa Claus
      • Jingle Bells
      • Jolly old St. Nicholas
      • Must be Santa
      • Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer
      • Silver Bells
  • WORLD
    • England - newer >
      • Bread and Fishes
      • Fiddler's Green
      • Let it be
      • Let me be there
    • England - older >
      • Dirty old town
      • Drink to me only ...
      • Scarborough Fair
    • Germany- older >
      • Brahms's Lullaby
    • Ireland - newer >
      • After all these years
      • (The) Ferryman
      • Fields of Athenry
      • My lovely Rose of Clare
      • Nancy Spain
      • Roads of Kildare
      • Rose of Mooncoin
    • Ireland - older >
      • Black velvet band
      • Come back Paddy Reillly
      • Danny Boy
      • Galway Bay
      • Irish washerwoman
      • Maid in the Garrett
      • Molly Malone
      • My wild Irish Rose
      • Rose of Aranmore
      • Wild Rover
    • Scotland - newer >
      • Auld Lang Syne - New Year's
      • Come by the hills
      • It's a dream come true
      • Mull of Kintyre
      • We'll meet again my friends
      • Wild mountain thyme
    • Scotland -older >
      • Cock o the North /Aunt Mary
      • Road to the isles
    • Wales-older >
      • The Ash Grove
    • Christmas Songs >
      • Christmas in Killarney
      • Deck the hall
      • Good King Wenceslas
      • We wish you a Merry Christmas
  • GOSPEL
    • Songs - newer >
      • Because He lives
      • God on the mountain
      • He touched me
      • I'll fly away
      • It is no secret
      • Millenium Prayer
      • One day at a time
      • Unclouded Day
      • Will you walk with me
      • Wings of a dove
    • Songs - older >
      • Beautiful isle of somewhere
      • Church in the wildwood
      • Count your blessings
      • Do Lord
      • Give me oil for my lamp
      • Higher ground
      • How beautiful Heaven must be
      • In the sweet by and by
      • Keep on the Sunny Side
      • Kum ba yah
      • Life is like a mountain railroad
      • Mine eyes have seen the glory
      • Shall we gather at the river
      • When the Saints go marching in
      • Whispering hope
    • Hymns - newer >
      • Here I am Lord
      • How great Thou art
      • Jesus you have come to the lakeshore
      • Morning has broken
      • Pass it on
      • Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness
    • Hymns -older >
      • All people that on earth
      • Amazing Grace
      • Be Thou My Vision
      • In the garden
      • Jesus loves me
      • Joyful, joyful, We ...
      • Softly and tenderly
      • Take time to be holy
      • We love the place O God
      • What a Friend we have in Jesus
      • Will your anchor hold
    • Christmas Carols >
      • Away in a manger (JRM)
      • Away in a manger (WJK)
      • The First Noel
      • The friendly beasts
      • Go, tell it on the mountain
      • Hark the herald angels sing
      • I heard the bells (Calkin)
      • 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
  • BY "EAR"
    • Adelweiss
    • Among the Wicklow Hills
    • Capelin time
    • From an island to an island
    • Hills of Glenshee
    • In an Irish country home
    • It's good to see you
    • Lord, don't give up on me
    • Love me when I'm old ...
    • Mary Ann regrets
    • (The) Music takes me back
    • Mussels in the corner
    • My homeland
    • Oh so many years
    • The little shirt my Mother made for me
    • Up the pond
    • You're the nearest thing to Heaven
  • GUITAR
    • Using Guitar Capo
    • After all these years - guitar
    • Auld Lang Syne - New Year's
    • Christmas in the harbour.
    • Darlin' say you'll love me when I'm old - Guitar
    • Down in the valley
    • Molly Malone
    • Oh so many years - guitar
    • When the Saints - Guitar
    • Current Set

About  Embedded youTube Videos


1.  About youTube
A video sharing web site, youTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim  in 2005 and purchased by Google in 2006.  The very first video to be uploaded to youTube in April of 2005, showing founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo,  is embedded at right.

Now there are many millions of videos on youTube with billions of viewings each day.  Hundreds of thousands of them (if not millions) are music videos, and vast numbers of them are accordion tunes or are compatible with the button accordion.  You can expect to see a large number of these embedded in the pages of this site as an aid to learning the tunes.

2.   youTube - Direct 

When you go directly to youTube for a video to view, it will usually have the format shown at right, in which the viewing screen is surrounded by additional information, including comments by other viewers (below the video) and additional choices (on the right).
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3.  Viewing an embedded youTube Video

What you see and hear is often dependent on the browser you are using.   Here we are using the mid-2015 Mozilla Firefox browser.  Some features will not work in older versions or other browsers.

The embedded youTube video at right shows Poss Slaney performing "Cock O' The North", also known in Newfoundland and Labrador as "Auntie Mary", on his GCF Hohner Panther.  To view and listen to the video,
  • click on the right arrow in the center of the video.


You may want to stop or pause the video.  To do this,
  • move the cursor over the screen, and a control panel will appear at the bottom of the embedded screen, as shown in the photo at right. 
  • Click on the block on the left of the control panel.

You may note that the block in the lower left corner was replaced by a right arrow.  To continue viewing the video
  •  click on this arrow.



If the tune is new to you, you may want to play it a number of times. 

To do this,  when the video finishes
  • move the cursor over the screen, and a control panel will appear at the bottom of the embedded screen. 
  • Click on the clockwise circular arrow on the left of this panel, as shown in the photo at right, and your video will be repeated.



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You can also adjust the volume by
  • moving the cursor over the speaker icon just to the right of the circular arrow, and a volume bar & slider will appear, and then ...
  • clicking on and moving the volume "slider" to the right (to increase) or left (to decrease) the volume.
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If you wish to play along with a tune that is too fast for you, you can reduce the play-back speed to 75% or even more to 50%.  Unfortunately the quality of the 50% sound is also reduced, especially if multiple instruments or singing are involved.  However, it may still be of value in the early stages of learning a new or fast tune.

To do this,
  • click on the sprocket symbol to the right of center on the control panel,
  • select speed, and then
  • pick the 0.75 or the 0.5 option.
  • Now when you press on the right arrow (or the circular arrow) it will play at reduced speed.

To return to normal speed,
  • click on the sprocket symbol to the right of center on the control panel,
  • select speed, and then
  • pick the Normal option.
  • Now when you press on the right arrow (or the circular arrow) it will play at normal speed.

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You may notice other options on the control panel.  Feel free to play with them at your leisure. 

If your screen gets messed up, just refresh your main browser window itself, and start over.

For most tunes, this site embeds  several youTube performances in various keys.

The video at right is one by the Fogo Island accordion group, playing "Auntie Mary" in the key of C.  The tempo is quite fast, so you may initially need to cut the speed as much as 50% in order to play along.  The music begins at the 20 second point and lasts about 80 seconds.

Have fun!

Heads-Up 1:   I can't guarantee the accuracy of all the keys that I include for the various youTube videos;  I'm still trying to train my "ears" to listen more carefully to the music.  Most are OK, but it's possible that a few may be merely "close", and you may find some that are painfully off the mark.   The same can also be said of my attempts to determine the tempo of some youTube performance.

Heads-Up 2:   You may observe that different performers can interpret tunes differently, with some being "close" to the accordion notation that I've included, and others not so close.  Even when they play the same notes, they can change the rhythm or, more commonly, the tempo somewhat, and they can add embellishments.   As you become more experienced on the accordion, you will probably do the same thing.  That's just the way it is!  (And, of course, errors can occur in the notation - hopefully quickly found and corrected!)

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