How to Play Bass Notes on Accordion

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AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay so, the logic of the bass buttons is really not too difficult to grasp. Looks like a lot of buttons but here's the key. The buttons are arranged in lines like this, in this direction okay. So you can see there's a line, there's a line, there's a line, and those lines go by fifths. So if you understand the concept of a fifth, right. It's just, you know, it's five, you know, whole steps away. So in a C chord, right, the fifth away from the C is the G, it's the fifth whole step away, so, they go by fifths, right. So if this is the C, right, C chord, right. That's going to apply to this whole line, and I'll tell you how they're broken up. The next set over is going to be G because G is a fifth away, then, the next set away from that is going to be--let's see what is it? It's going to be a D, right, 'cause that's the next set away, so, it goes on fifths, right, C, G, D, right, the other side of the C will be an F, okay. Now, the other way they're arranged is--so let's just take the--this line, that's C, okay. We've got a, we've got, kind of, what's called the bass note, or the root note, in this row. The one right next to it, here, makes the major chord. The one--the third one away, actually, makes the minor chord, the next one down makes the seventh, and the final one down is the diminished chord. So they're all in a line, right. So, if this is C, and actually, a line of the accordions, they have a little rhinestone, or a little dimple, or a little bump there, so you can feel where the C is, middle C. This will be the C root, then the major, the minor, the seventh, and the diminished, okay. This line, a fifth away, this is going to be the G root, the G major, minor, seventh and diminished. And then, this one up here is the third right, so, if this is the C, the third note in the C chord is in E right so, okay. But you know, I don't use those a lot, some people do. So that's really it, they go in fifths and lines this way, and then, within each line, you've got the root, the major, the minor, the seventh and the diminished.

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