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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.
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
"So now we have gone through this whole piece and we played our blue forms which goes 1 chord for 4 measures, 2 chords for 2 measures, 1 chord for 2 measures. Then we have 5,4 and then 1 for 2 measures which is your standard blues for progression if you ever want to write your blues use the exact same chords and just put a different melody over it to keep the same accordion notes for the left hand or you just write out the chords and then just write a melody above it. So we are going to play it again we start right here on the natural 4. You can try improvising over the blue scale to. Just going on tune take what we work on today and really get it under your fingers and when you can jam a A flat major go take down another key and do it all in C. That is accordion in A flat. "
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