Finding the Major Roots of G Flat on the Accordion

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to do an introduction to your left hand, first we're going to show you how to find a G flat. It's kind of up there, but we'll find it. So you start right here in the middle of the keyboard, and this is middle C right here. It will have an indent, or the note will stick out, it will be the note in the second row here that really sticks out. Then what you want to do is move up and you'll find another note like that. A little bit farther up on the keyboard and that's E, and if we go up again we have B, and then you have G flat right here, two notes above that second indent right there. So two two's. So once you find G flat make sure you match it up over here, and you can play. So here's a root chord and then I play the fifth of the scale, and that's your basic Polka beat. Now the second buttons, we have a major button right here. Minor is one below it, then we have seventh below that. Then diminish below that. Right now we're just going to concentrate on G flat major. Again, if you see a G flat minor or seventh chord now you know how to find it. Now we're going to go to our five, seven. We said root chord, fifth chord, so if you make the fifth the root and play our seventh chord, we have our five, seven. You hear that going smooth and nice. It really resolves nicely into that G flat. That's how you find your first two chords in G flat major on your left hand."