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Summary: Learn tips on how to play a D major scale on the accordion with the left hand in this free music video on playing the accordion in D 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 our one, and our five seven down on the left hand. Now if we take our D and go down a notch, or down a button, one below it, we have G, which is our four seven chord. And we use the seventh button. So we're back at D, here's our D again. And then there's our seventh. There's our five seventh, so we have one, four and five are right surrounding this D. D, five is up, four is below. Then if we go right above the five we have our 2 minor, which is E minor. And notice we use the second button down for a chord which is our minor button. And we have one more minor chord that we're going to look at which is our A minor which is one more notch up. Yes. And that's B minor. B minor, B minor. So we have our G major, or we have our D major , our G seventh, our A seventh, our E minor, and our B minor. And those all come out of D major in our left hand."
eHow Article: Playing an Accordion in D Major with the Left Hand