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Playing Ab Major on the Accordion with Right Hand

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Summary: Learn tips on how to play a Ab major scale on the accordion with the right hand in this free music video on playing the accordion in Ab or A flat major.

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Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more

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"Okay now the first thing we are going to learn is A flat major scale on the accordion on the right hand. So you start right here this is your A flat just match it up with your left hand A flat, D,E,F,G,A and we number them 1,2,3,4,5,6, and 7. It is very important that you get those numbers down 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 cause when go through and read we are going to use those numbers so you can read them in this pattern. So go in your accordion and really get that pattern down and as we go through we are going to learn our major chords. 1 is your major, 2 is a minor, 3 we are not going to go over, 4 is a 7th chord, 5 is a 7th chord, 6 is a minor chord and those are the chords we are going to go over. We are going to go 1 major, 2 minor, 4,7, 5,7 and 6 minor so these 5 chords we would go over in the next couple of segments to get down the basic chords of the A flat major scale. "

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