Button-Accordion Project

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

MINI-COURSE BA1
The Button Accordion, its Music & Notation


UNIT FIVE (of TEN)  -  PART B
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Melodies with other Fractional-Beat Notes


Return to BA1 - Unit 5
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Slide 2
- Unit 5b
​- Topics 2 to 8
Slides 3 to 7
- Brief Review
Slides 8 to 11 - Topic 3

Quarter-beat notes

Using single quote
​         '4   '6

Usually found in pairs. 
Slides 12 - Featured
                   Melody (i)

Make & Break Harbour

by the late Stan Rogers
Slides 13 to 15
​- Topic 4

Three-quarter-beat notes

Use triple quotes '"4  '"6
Slide 16
- Featured Melody (ii)

London Bridge is Falling down
​(Children's song)

​Slide 8
Slides 17 to 21
- Topic 5 

Single-beat triplets (3 equal length notes in one beat interval)   
        .(6 8* 7)

and double-beat triplets (3 equal length note in two beat intervals. 
​         :(3 5 6*)
Slide 22 - Featured
                 Melody (iii)​

After All These Years

with a 

double-beat triplet in
line 1 at left

and a
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single-beat triplet in
line 5
Slide 23 - Topic 6

Verse, Chorus or Part of
Six home-practice song-melodies.

Complete accordion melody notation for each song given under  BA1-Main - Unit 5

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Slides 24  Practice
                  Melody (iv)

Bridge Over Troubled Waters
by Paul Simon

​First third of the first verse.
Slide 25 - Practice
                 Melody (v)
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Let It Be  
by Paul McCartney

​(Chorus)
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Slide 26

Till the Storm Passes By   - by Mosie Lister

​(First half of chorus)
Slide 27

Outport People
by Bud Davidge

​(Chorus)
Slide 28
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What a Wonderful World

by George Weiss & Bob Thiele

Popularized by the great Louis Armstrong.

​(Verse 1)
Slide 29 

I Can't Stop Loving You
by Don Gibson

​(First half of first verse)
Slide 30

Online Resources
Slide 31

Unit 5, Topic 7

Time Slots for the Unit 5 individualized sessions
Slides 32 & 33
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Looking ahead to the second half of BA1, starting in February 2022.

​A tentative list of titles for the remaining Units.
Slides 34 to 36

A brief introduction to cross-playing notation.
Slides 37 & 38 
Slide 39

A brief introduction to bars & bar lines
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