How to Learn Accordion Songs

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"JUDE PARRY: On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Jude Parry. I'm with Gold Coast Theater Company here in Miami Beach and today, we're going to be learning beginning accordion. Now, before in the last song that we did, "Jingle Bells," we jumped from C to G, to D and back again. We're going to do some of the same this time. And if you look at the bass line over here, this shows this is a C and this is a G, goes back to C. And so we are jumping around on the basses quite a bit, goes up and down and up and down. And at the same time, all these different notes are worth something. The white type ones are worth two, the black ones are worth one, and the dotted white ones are worth three. So it gets more and more complicated as you go along, to be able to learn all these things. But with a little bit of practice, you should be able to practice, practice, practice, and make it worth your while. So, for this one, for example, there's a whole bunch. I'm just going to play the very first notes here, which sounded like this. It's 3/4 time and it goes...."