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Introduction to the Accordion: a Free Online Music Lesson for Beginners
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Summary: A piano accordion has bellows, a keyboard for playing melodies, and buttons for playing bass parts and harmonies. Learn the basics of an accordion, how to hold it and how it is played in this free online video music lesson for beginners.
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Introduction to the Accordion: a Free Online Music Lesson for BeginnersHi my name is Brett. This is an accordion, a piano accordion to be exact, because of this piano keyboard side. Full size accordion, and this is my favorite instrument. It is a complex instrument, and it has three things that you have to do simultaneously. You have to pull in and out on the billows. They push air through the reeds. These are the billows in the middle. On the right hand side, we have a keyboard where we can play melodies just like on a piano. On the left hand side, we have buttons where we play bass and harmonies to what we are playing on the right hand side. So as you can see, you are doing three different things at the same time. Moving the billows in and out, moving your right hand playing a melody and moving your left hand playing bass notes, and sometimes you are going at odds against yourself. Right hand is moving one way. Left hand is moving the other. Billows are going up, maybe down. It is a very complex and challenging instrument, but I hope to make it easier for you over these next few lessons.
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Hi Brett Your video is great! I have been playing the accordion since school days and am a pensioner now and wants to improve on my playing. Your video is a great refresher course and I also learned new things.
brett, great series, very helpful. Was given a very nice accordion but had no idea what i was looking at. After watching the videos i feel i can get started with playing it. Thanks, time to have "big fun", neil
Hi Brett! Thanks for the whole series! It really helped me to make my decision to start learning to play the accordion. Szilvia from Budapest, Hungary (the new owner of a beautiful red Weltmeister)
Hi Brett! Thanks for the whole series! It really helped me to make my decision to start learning to play the accordion. Szilvia from Budapest, Hungary (the new owner of a beautiful red Weltmeister)
Really Helped me out, Thanks
Hi Brett! Thanks for the whole series! It really helped me to make my decision to start learning to play the accordion. Szilvia from Budapest, Hungary
Hi Brett! Thanks for the whole series! It really helped me to make my decision to start learning to play the accordion. Szilvia from Budapest, Hungary (the new owner of a beautiful red Weltmeister)