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Summary: Watch this video as an introduction to the accordion and learn some tips on how to play it correctly for in this free how-to video on musical instruments and playing the accordion in Eb or E flat major.
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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more
So today we're going to go through and take a comprehensive look at the accordion in Eb. I'm going to show you how to play your major scale and minor scale on the keyboards, I'm going to show you how all the buttons work, and there's several other things on the accordion that aren't as important, like you have all these buttons here, those really just give you different sounds. But our main concentration is going to be really on finding those different chords that come out of Eb major, and going through, and we're going to read through a blues tune so you can go through and read on the instrument, and also learn how to play chords while reading both hands on the instrument in Eb major.