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Summary: Learn tips on how to play the accordion with your left hand in this free video series that will have you playing the accordion in no time.

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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

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How to Play the Accordion with the Left Hand

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 it's important you use your fingers without looking at them so that your fingers know the way on the keyboard. And if you look right now, we talked about the right hand, this is the left hand. You can tell this is the left hand because of this notation here, this is the bass keyboard and these are all on the same notes so you'll hear the same note as I play the left hand and I open the bellows and close the bellows, and now I'm going to do C major, close the bellows. Now I'm going to do the magic, I'm going to put them together. You see, what I'm doing is I am alternating the basses and the major chords, and that's the beauty of the accordion is that you can play all these in one or two fingers without having to use your entire hand on the left hand side. So the accordion can be easy too.

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