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Slides 1 & 2
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Slide 3 - BA1b - Outline
In the first five Units of BA1, we covered most of our brief introduction to melodies. In this Unit 6 we will complete this introduction to melodies. In Units 7 to 10 we will cover a brief introduction to tunes. |
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Slide 4 - Schedule
The Zoom-based instructional (one-hour) and individualized (half-hour) sessions, along with the BA1 web pages and embedded youTube videos, are forms of support, as you seek to meet your accordion goals as stated in first slide. |
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Slide 5 - Individualized
Time Slots |
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Slide 6 - Unit 6 Topics
In BA1 (Part a) the melodies, for the most part, were each covered by four treble buttons, and thus no reaching or sliding was necessary. Nor was it necessary to cross to the adjacent row to obtain a missing note. In this Unit 6 we slide, reach and cross-play. |
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Slide 7: Review
The six most-importing things we covered in BA1 (Part a). |
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Slides 8 & 9 - Caring & Playing: In addition to keeping your accordion away from excessive heat, cold, humidity and dust, it is important to remember that regular playing is also good for your accordion's health.
Also . . .Don't: (i) over-stretch the bellows, (ii) lift it by the thumb strap, (iii) play too vigorously, (iv) transport it without using a padded case, etc. |
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Slides 10-14 Matching Buttons & Musical Notes for four common button accordions. Our button-accordion notation, using musically-timed button-numbers, is identical for all four of these different accordions.
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Slide 15 - Distinction between melodies & tunes
Melodies - played using right (treble-end) buttons Tunes - played using both left (bass-end) & right (treble )buttons |
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Slides 16: Notation for very familiar melodies
This is all the notation you need, and perhaps even more than you need, if the melody is truly familiar to you. However, when we come to tunes in Units 7 to 10, you may need more than this for many tunes (at least initially), even for familiar ones. |
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Slide 17-22: Topic 3
The beat-interval is the basic unit of musical time. Since the beat interval is a period of time, we can represent it by the gramatical symbol, the "period" ( . ) Similarly for divisions & combinations of beat intervals, as shown at left. |
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Slides 23: Notation for
less familiar melodies |
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Slide 24: Featured melody
Love Me Tender Can be played without having to slide, reach or cross-play for extra buttons. |
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Slide 25-27:
Sliding & Reaching |
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Slide 28
Featured Melody: Auld Lang Syne Reaching or sliding |
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Slide 29
Featured Melody: Wildwood Flower Reaching and / or sliding |
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Slides 30-34
Cross-playing from inside row to outside row for missing button-notes |
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Slide 35
Featured Melody: Four Strong Winds Played mainly low on inside row, with cross-playing to outside row for button-note o3* |
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Slide 36
Featured Melody: Four Strong Winds Played mainly low on inside row, with cross-playing to outside row for button-note o3* |
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Slides 37 - 39
Cross-playing from outside side row to inside row for missing button-notes |
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Slide 40:
Featured Melody: Four Strong Winds Played mainly high on outside row, with cross-playing to inside row on bottom line for button-note i9 |
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Slides 41 & 42:
List of extra practice melodies for consideration. i) Come by the hills ii) Bread & fishes iii) Higher ground iv) Red is the rose |
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Slide 43
Practice melody (i) Come By The Hills |
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Slide 44
Practice melody (ii) Bread & Fishes aka Wind In The Willows |
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Slide 45
Practice melody (iii-a) Cross-playing for o3* Higher Ground |
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Slide 46
Practice melody (iii-b) Cross-playing for both o3 and o3* Higher Ground |
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Slide 47
Practice melody (iv-a) Cross-playing for o3* Red Is The Rose |
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Slide 48
Practice melody (iv-b) Cross-playing for both o3 and o3* Red Is The Rose |
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Slides 46 & 47
Looking ahead to half-hour individualized session time slots (every 2nd week) |
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Slide 48
Looking ahead to Unit 7: Harmony, Bass-end matching, and Drone accompanied tunes |
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