Sight Reading Basics for F Key on Accordions

Video Transcript

"Now we are going to go over some basic reading scales in the key of F so if you zoom in here. Notice we have 1 flat that is how we know we are in the key of F and F is the 2nd or the 1st bass right on the staff. So this is F so our first note here is 1,2,3, our 4 natural is our first note in the key of F. You notice our left hand it looks really, really busy but keep in mind it is all buttons so you are not going to be playing these 3 buttons at once it is just really the chords. So we have a F7 chord so there is your F, there is your chord your 7th chord and then there is your 5th so you have root chord, 5th chord, root chord, 5th chord. You would see that all over the place in accordion writing so don't get scared and intimidated just look at the chord symbol there where writing chord symbols way before they ever wrote a chord symbol for a guitar. So go through and just read those chords symbols and get those left hand going and we would go through and discuss reading the melodies. You want to keep in mind we have quarter notes. There is 4 quarter notes to a measure, 4 quarters to a whole. Then we have a half note. This gets 2 beats. Then we have 8th notes as seen down here and there is 2 8th notes to a beat so we would have eight 8th notes in a whole measure. So we would go through and you would be able to hear the tempo and the accent as I play through the melody and you would see for yourself as I play through on the accordion. "