Sight Reading & Playing Accordion in A Major Part 1

Video Transcript

"So now we're going to take a look at our accordion piece written out on our sheet music here and we're in the key of Amajor, and you can tell because we have the three sharps (#) right here ...1, 2,3 and that's how you know it's Amajor. A is found right here on the second space of the staff, as we go up and down, each line and space is a note in scale. So you have 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, etc. Now you notice our left hand looks like there are a lot of notes, but remember our left hand is all buttons so we have an A7 chord so it's easy. We just have root chord-fifth chord, so it's A then our A7 chord and then we have E and our A7 chord. In a lot of accordion music you don't even really have to look at the left hand, just look at the chord and get the rhythms out of it that you want. And now we are going to look at our right hand so this is A, so we have 7-6-5-4, so we have 4# to a 5, and 5# to a 6. So going into 5 and then going up to 6, then we have 6-7-6-5 and you notice we have this triplet here and it's quarter notes so this is, quarter notes obviously, four quarter notes equals a whole measure, so we are getting three quarter notes where two would usually fit, so you have 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3...notice I'm clicking only twice, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3. That's how you get that basic rhythm for that. Then these are all quarter notes so we go through and play (plays). So that's very simple, running down the first few measures of Accordion Lover Blues."