Quick Picks: Learn the Three Parts of the Accordion
 
Sign In Sign Up — It's Free!

Learn the Three Parts of the Accordion

Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.
Showing 1-5

Part of the video series: How to Play the Accordion

left_arrow right_arrow
Add to My Playlist What is a playlist?

Summary: Accordions have three major parts to them. Learn about each part in this free video series that will have you playing the accordion in no time.

Views: 588 | Tags: scales, chords, theory, keyboard, instruments, notes, accordion, musical, polka, accordions, musical instruments

Get the latest Flash player.
Email Video Add to Favorites
About the Expert
Contact: britishpanto.org

Jude Parry Jude Parry is a native of Liverpool, England who was classically trained in mime in London and Czechoslovakia. She has performed solo in Prague, London, and N... read more

Hide Comments

Conversations About This Video

  • Comments
    (0 comments)
  • Questions & Answers
    (0 questions) (0 answers)
Be the first to comment on this video.
Have a question about this video topic? Ask our community members and let them share their knowledge with you!
Ask A Question

Video Transcript

Learn the Three Parts of the Accordion

JUDE PARRY: On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Jude Parry. I'm with Gold Coast Theatre Company here in Miami Beach, and today we're going to be learning beginning accordion. So we're talking about the accordion today. Now if you've got an accordion all the better; if you haven't, go to a flea market and buy one. You can get one for about 60 bucks sometimes. I know, that's where I bought a couple of mine. It's basically like having a piano strapped to your chest but there are three parts to an accordion. First of all the piano part, and then that's called the treble keyboard. And then on the other side, that's the bass keyboard. The bass keyboard has buttons on each of these hundreds--seemingly hundreds but it's actually only 120 buttons represents a particular chord. Let's say on the piano, you might play C, E, G which makes it chord on the bass keyboard you only need to play one button and this is C major. Now the last one part is the bellows, and the bellows suck it in and out.

Watch these related videos

Wind Instruments Ads

Community Members who...

  • Favorited this Video
  • Rated This Video
Read these related articles
See more articles

Top Tags

accordion accordions american bagpipes beginner blues care chords clarinet embouchure flute flute lessons flutes harmonica indianfluet instructional instrument instruments ireland Irish Irish flute japanese jazz key mouth musical musical instruments native nativeamericanflute nativeamericanflutes notes orchestra pipes play player polka reed reeds repair scale scales Shakuhachi sheet symphony techniques theory traditional tuning wind wooden
Check out what people are watching now
left_arrow right_arrow