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Sight Reading & Playing Accordion in Ab Major Part 1

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Summary: Learn these great tips on how to sight read this blues song with an accordion 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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"Now we are going to go over our next couple of measures here we are still in A flat and we are going to play our first melody. And we are looking at the next couple of bars here repeat the first melody which is typical this is the blues again so we have A flat and we have our melody 4,5,5,6. We have our natural 4 to 5, natural 5 to 6,6,7,6,5 and then we go back natural 4 to 5 and then up to 6. Notice our chords have not changed so we just keep playing the A flat 7 chord through and we put the whole melody together and we have. That is the A section or the 1st 4 bars of accordion love of blues. "

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