(For He's a) JOLLY GOOD FELLOW
Beginner BA1 - Unit 2 (Practice) Song-Melody
Traditional
Button-Accordion Notation (simplest version)
Although you may be a "beginner" on the button accordion, you already know lots of tunes, perhaps including the English/American folk song For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. The idea here is to first practice with very familiar (or, at least, somewhat familiar) song-melodies.
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Either row: Buttons 3 to 5*
Place first finger at button 3 and third finger at 5, covering all the notes without having to change your finger positions. |
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Part 1
Included for practice in this Unit. Learning Part 2 can be deferred. Part 2 (1st two lines) For remainder of Part 2: Either repeat last two lines of Part 1 Or repeat all of Part 1. In either case, hold last note for 6 beats at end. |
.3 :4 .4 .4 .3* .4 .:4* :4
For he's a jol - ly good fel - low .4 :3* .3* .3* .3 .3* .:4 :3 For he's a jol - ly good fel - low .3 :4 .4 .4 .3* .4 .:4* :5*~ For he's a jol - ly good fel - low .5* .5 .5 .5 :4* .3* .::3 Which no - bod - y can de - ny .4 .5 .5 .5 :5* .5* .::5 Which no - bod - y can de - ny, .4 .5 .5 .5 :5* .5* .::5 Which no - bod - y can de - ny, |
Embedded youTube Videos
Nine videos in the keys: C=3 (played on inside row of a G-C accordion)
D=2 (played on inside row of an A-D accordion)
G=4 (played on outside row of a G-C accordion)
If you find any of these performances to be too fast, you can set the play-back speed to 75% or 50% (but not to the terrible-sounding 25%).
Nine videos in the keys: C=3 (played on inside row of a G-C accordion)
D=2 (played on inside row of an A-D accordion)
G=4 (played on outside row of a G-C accordion)
If you find any of these performances to be too fast, you can set the play-back speed to 75% or 50% (but not to the terrible-sounding 25%).
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Key: C
Pianist: James Cowper? Posted by: James Cowper Good pace (tempo) for beginners. |
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Key: C
Pianist: ? Posted by: Easy Sheet Music by Thomas Instrumental - good for beginners |
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Key: C
Pianist: ? Posted by: YOUCANPLAYIT.COM Instrumental - slow - great for beginners. Part 1: Follows the notation above. Part 2: Plays line 1 of Part 2 - twice only. Part 3: Repeat of Part 1 (as above) Then repeats the whole thing (right-hand melody and left-hand accompaniment separately as a piano tutorial.). |
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Key: D
Guitarist: Carmen Alvarez? Posted by: Carmen Alvarez - Topic |
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Key: D
Group: Barney & the backyard gang Posted by: Stephanie The Tv show girl |
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Key: G
Guitarist: ? Posted by: Paul Guitar Coach Good pace (tempo) for beginners. |
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Key: G
Guitarist: ? Posted by: John Hagley |
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Key: G
Pianist: ? Posted by: DiversiTune Follow the bouncing ball for lyrics. |
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Key: G
Group: ? Posted by: Music Man Good pace (tempo) for beginnners. |
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BACKGROUND MATERIALS, INFORMATION & LINKS
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Lyrics:
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English
Version American Version |
For he's a jolly good fellow, For he's a jolly good fellow For he's a jolly good fellow, And so say all of us. And so say all of us, And so say all of us For he's a jolly good fellow, And so say all of us! For he's a jolly good fellow, For he's a jolly good fellow For he's a jolly good fellow (pause), Which nobody can deny. Which nobody can deny, Which nobody can deny, For he's a jolly good fellow, Which nobody can deny! |
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Background Links:
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There are other slightly different lyrics and arrangements.
Click HERE for wikipedia background on this song. |