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CONTENTS About the Author 2 TEACH YOURSELF TO PLAY ACCORDION CONTENTS About the Author ...............................................4 Guide Button C .............................................34 Introduction .......................................................4 Bass Note C ....................................................34 Chords ............................................................36 PART 1—GETTING STARTED C Major Chord Button ..................................36 The “Squeezebox”: A Brief History ....................5 Types of Chords .............................................38 Parts of the Accordion ........................................6 Diatonic Harmony ........................................38 A Look Inside ..................................................7 Combining Bass and Chord Buttons ............39 The Bellows .....................................................7 Combining Left and Right Hands ................41 Buying an Accordion ..........................................8 From Ode to Joy .......................................41 Adjusting the Straps ............................................9 Alternating Bass .............................................42 Practicing Tips ................................................. 10 Ode to Joy .................................................44 Standard Music Notation .................................11 Ode to Joy (Key of F) ...............................45 Musical Alphabet, Before You Play .................................................46 Clef and Staff ..............................................11 Stretching .......................................................46 Lines and Spaces ............................................11 Right-Hand Warm-Ups .................................46 Notes ..............................................................12 Ledger Lines...................................................12 PART 3—STYLES FROM HOME AND Beats, Note and Rest Values ...........................13 AROUND THE WORLD Bar Lines and Measures .................................13 Putting It All Together ......................................48 Time Signatures .............................................14 Children’s Folk Song ........................................49 Rhythms and Counting .................................15 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ...................49 The Waltz ..........................................................50 PART 2—PLAYING THE ACCORDION Minuet in G .............................................50 The Right Hand ................................................16 Bluegrass or Old-Time .....................................52 Notes in C Position .......................................16 Angeline the Baker ...................................52 D Position ......................................................24 Musette .............................................................54 E Position .......................................................25 Playing Minor Chords ...................................54 F Position .......................................................26 Sad Café—1st Accordion .........................54 Some Basic Music Theory ................................28 Sad Café—2nd Accordion .......................55 The Major Scale .............................................28 The Tango..........................................................56 Keys and Key Signatures ...............................29 Sophia’s Secret Tango ...............................56 Movable Hand Positions ..................................30 Conjunto ...........................................................58 Shifting the Right Hand ................................31 Tejas .........................................................58 The Left Hand ..................................................32 The Polka ..........................................................60 Left-Hand Position ........................................32 Dennis Murphy’s Polka ............................60 Button Chart, Note and Row Identification ...............................33 44736 TY Accordion INT 02-96.indd 2 8/17/15 10:02 AM TEACH YOURSELF TO PLAY ACCORDION 3 Zydeco and Cajun .............................................62 Latin American .................................................82 Zydeco Romp ............................................62 The Clave Rhythm .........................................82 Cajun 2-Step ............................................64 The Montuno ................................................82 The Irish Tradition ...........................................66 Air ..................................................................66 PART 5—APPENDIX Hornpipe........................................................66 Playing with the Band ...................................84 Reel ................................................................66 Amplifying Your Instrument .........................85 The Counter Bass ...........................................66 MIDI Accordions ...........................................86 Embellishments .............................................67 Digital Accordions .........................................86 Air Alone ..................................................68 Reed Settings—Accordion Voices and Registers Air Alone (with ornaments) .....................69 ...............................................87 Tunings Maggie’s Hornpipe....................................70 ..........................................................87 Types of Accordions Maggie’s Hornpipe (with ornaments) ......71 .......................................88 Sizing an Accordion .......................................89 The Care and Feeding PART 4—THE WELL-ROUNDED of Your Free-Reed Machine ........................90 SIDE PERSON: PLAYING WITH A GROUP Do It Yourself Repair .....................................91 7th Chords .....................................................72 Self-Maintenance ...........................................91 The Blues ..........................................................73 Great Musicians, Bands and Recordings .......92 The 12-Bar Blues Progression .......................73 Resources .......................................................93 Improvising ...................................................74 A Note From the Author ...................................94 Bass and Chord Button Chart Swing Eighths ................................................74 ..........................96 Da Blues ...................................................75 Rock ’n’ Roll .....................................................76 Squeezebox Rox ........................................76 Swing ................................................................77 The Swingbox Comps ...............................77 Jazz ....................................................................78 The Circle of 5ths ..........................................78 Tin Pan Squeezebox .................................79 Country and Western .......................................80 A Cry in Your Beer Country Tune ...........80 44736 TY Accordion INT 02-96.indd 3 8/17/15 10:02 AM TEACH YOURSELF TO PLAY ACCORDION 7 A LOOK INSIDE The mechanism inside the accordion through which air passes and creates sound is the reed block. It is very much like a harmonica, a block of wood with a series of holes. Along the tops of these holes are small slips of metal called reeds or reed plates. When air passes through, the reeds vibrate and produce sound. Reed blocks. Reed blocks up close. THE BELLOWS The bellows is the heart and soul of Get the Feel for Your Bellows Tip: You can use the air button to the accordion. It lies in the center close the bellows when you need to of the instrument and is basically It’s time for you to get a feel for start a new phrase. a folded, sealed paper pump that how the bellows works. Unsnap pushes and pulls air through the the bass straps (see page 6), top reed blocks to create sound. It is and bottom, and open and close the mastery of this “push and pull” the bellows several times. Using the that allows you to create dynamics thumb of your left hand, press the (changes in the loudness or softness air button (page 6) and open and of sounds), alter your phrasing (the close the bellows several more times. musicality with which you play a Remember to always pick up the certain line) and basically create your accordion while closed and begin own sound. playing from this closed position (see photo below). Closed position. Opening the bellows. Bellows extended. 44736 TY Accordion INT 02-96.indd 7 8/17/15 10:03 AM 16 TEACH YOURSELF TO PLAY ACCORDION PART 2—Playing the Accordion THE RIGHT HAND All notes in treble clef (see page 11) 3 are played by your right hand on the 2 4 keyboard. The fingers of the right hand are 5 numbered 1–5, starting with the 1 thumb (1) and ending with the pinky (5). Right-hand finger numbers. NOTES IN C POSITION The C Note In this book, we will refer to a If you look at the keyboard, you will position as the distance of five notice that the black keys occur in consecutive white keys. A finger is groups of twos and threes. The first dedicated to each key, starting with note you will learn to play is a C. the thumb and ending with the The note C is the first white key that pinky. The C position starts with the appears before every group of two C note played by the thumb. black keys. C on the Keyboard M i d d l e C C on the Staff & w The Repeat Sign . C played on the accordion.
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