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malachi Approved
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Please!If anyone has diagrams or pictures of what the basic chords on the accordion keyboard look like please let me know.I have always wanted to play and now I have one.Thank you.Malachi
____________________ Malachi The Backyard Beggars: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1462/ |
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UkeForever Approved 
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 There it is (I hope it shows up). Accordions usually play in two or more registers. If you have three buttons, it plays a high octave (above middle C), and a register at middle C. The middle button mixes whatever registers you have together. If you have more than three buttons, it gets more complex. Listen to single notes--some of the buttons mix, some will give you the clear register. You'd be best sitting down at a piano keyboard, or buying an accordion book, but chords are easy. Any major chord is root + 4 half-steps (major third), and then 3 half-steps from there (minor third). So C chord would be C, E, G; F would be F, A, C; D would be D, F#, A; E would be E, G#, B, and so forth. To get the seventh quality, I have a cheat--just go a whole step step beneath the tonic. So to add the 7th to the C chord: Bb. Seventh to D? Yep, C. To E? Yep, D. What about F? Eb. Minor chords are simple. Simply reverse the way you got the major triad. Tonic to minor third (3 half-steps) and then another major third (four half-steps). So C minor is C, Eb, and G, et al. You do the same thing to the seventh to get the minor seventh quality. Diminished chords are all minor thirds. C dim is C, Eb, Gb, A. Augmented chords have a raised fifth--for C it would be C, E, G#. Inversions are easy on the keyboard. You remember that C-chord? C-E-G? The chord C/E is the same, you just begin with the E-- E, G, C. Same notes, same chord, just voiced differently. Are you saying you have the diatonic buttons figured out? If you have, wow. They are arranged in a super cool fashion--circle of fifths, with different chord qualities on the diagonal. Major, minor, diminished, seventh, bass. That means, the row next to the one you are playing is a fifth away, and the one on the other side is a fourth away. You know the trick for finding out where you're at? The middle C row major chord has a dimple in it. Just feel around like Louis Braille. Cool beans, eh? Last edited on Thu Jan 4th, 2007 02:45 am by UkeForever ____________________ Don't let the door hit 'ya where the good Lord split 'ya. John Rockwell's Crazy Songs 
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malachi Approved
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Thank you so much.I am grateful and will practice very hard.Malachi
____________________ Malachi The Backyard Beggars: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1462/ |
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