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 SEVEN (of TEN)
Drone & Tap Introductions to Accordion Tunes
(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 SEVEN (of TEN)
Drone & Tap Introductions to Accordion Tunes
SLIDES & COMMENTS
Slide 1 (Button Accordion One)
Slide 1 (Button Accordion One)
Slide 2 (List of units in the BA1 mini-course)
Slide 3 (List of Topics for Unit 7)
Topics 1 to 5 at left include demonstrations & practice using the five familiar and four "some-what" familiar song-melodies that were included in the previous Unit.
Click HERE for the Unit 6 web link that leads to the pages for these nine song-melodies. This link will open in a new window, to make it easier for you to return to Unit 7 and these slides. |
Slide 4 (Topic 0 - Background to drone (bass) accompaniment
Slide 5 (Topic 0 - Introduction to drone (bass) accompaniment)
Slide 6 (Topic 0 - The Scottish bagpipe as a drone example)
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And here is a prime example of one type of musical drone: the Scottish bagpipe (also known as a Great Highland Bagpipe, or GHB)
The drone contains the same bass notes ("low A" and an "octave-lower A"). The pipes & chanter are often claimed to be in the key of A (but the key is actually just slightly higher than Bb). While this drone note does not harmonize well with all the notes on the chanter, it works for the tunes that are frequently played on Scottish bagpipes. |
Slide 7 (Topic 0 - Accordion "drone" imitation)
On the dual-row button accordion, the same outside-row bass note is heard when button 2 is used on the push and button 4 on the pull, to create a drone.
On the push, this bass button note is highly consonant with buttons 2 to 11, but on the pull it is not very consonant with buttons 2*, 3*, 6*, 7*, 10* and 11*. |
Slide 8 (Accordion tune demo & practice with bass drone)
Slides 9 (Drone positives and negatives)
Slide 10 (Bass-end accompaniment options for bass-chord pairs matched to treble rows)
Slide 11 (Single button bass "drone")
Slide 12 (Accordion tune (demo/practice) with push & pull bass-note "drone-like" sounds)
Slide 13 (Positives & Negatives for this "drone-like" feature)
Slide 14 (Single button chord drone)
Slide 14 (Single button chord drone)
Slide 15 (Accordion tune (demo/practice) with push & pull chord "drone-like" sounds)
Slide 16 (Positives and negatives for this drone-like feature)
Slide 17 (Introduction to bass-note taps, with expected benefits)
Slide 18 (Accordion tune (demo/practice) with push & pull bass-note tapping)
Slide 19 (Accordion tune (demo/practice) with push & pull bass-note tapping)
Slide 19 (Accordion tune (demo/practice) with push & pull bass-note tapping)
Slide 20 (Introduction to single-button chord taps, with expected benefits)
Slide 21 (Accordion tune (demo/practice) with push & pull chord tapping)
Slide 22 (Accordion tune (demo/practice) with push & pull bass-note tapping)
Slide 23 (Accordion tune (demo/practice) with push & pull bass-note tapping)
The underscore _ is used to show that the syllable is being stretched, turning it (in a way) into two syllables to match the two notes. The underscore is also commonly used at the end of syllables (as at the end of each line above) to indicate that the sung syllable is to held longer.
Slide 24 (Introduction to "bass-note drone - chord tap" combination)
Slide 25 (Accordion tune (demo/practice) with bass drone & chord tapping)
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