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Summary: Learn tips how to play 'The Marines Hymn' on the accordion 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
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. Okay. So, let's just go through this song and you'll see the way my hand moves up and down the keyboard in the "Marines Hymn." [PLAYS MARINES HYMN] five, four, three, two, one. [INDISCERNIBLE]. So what we did, we jumped--we ran up and down the keyboard then we crossed to come and back down again and we also jumped from C to G up to F because now we're starting to use F and F major.