(For He's a) JOLLY GOOD FELLOW
Traditional
Button-Accordion Notation (for beginners who know the melody)
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. If so, you already have a sense of how long to hold each treble note, and where to put the emphasis. You just need to get use to it on the button accordion.
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Either row: Buttons 4 to 7*
Place first finger at button 4 and little finger at 7, 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 |
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, 5 4 4 4 4* 4* 4 which no - bod - y can de - ny 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 |
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. |