How to Play Swells on Accordion

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AMANDA CLAIRE: You know, another way to play if you don't want to play rhythmically like that, alright, that's C, F, C, G, right. The C fifth down is the F, the fifth up is the G, so you could play rhythmically. Or you can also play swells, and if you play a swell, basically what a swell is, it's like this, just hold the chord. Remember, if I want to do a minor chord, I just move one sort of button, you know, over and I can still play it together with the root. So if I want to play a C major chord, I'll play these two, right, 'cause that's C, remember, Root, major, minor, diminished. I'm sorry, root, major, minor, seventh, diminished. So if I want to play a C major chord like a swell, I'll play these two together. If I want to play a minor, I will still play the root but now, I'll play the minor. And if I want to play the seventh, same thing, you can hold the root, and then, you want to get the fourth one over on that line which would be the seventh, and that's really is easy as that. I mean, after that, you know, it's really just practice so I did just want to show you the basic structure of how the buttons are arranged in the left-hand side because this can be a little bit overwhelming. When you look at it, you say, "I have no idea how those buttons are arranged." If you know a little bit about music theory and you understand fifths, right, and understand that they're arranged in fifths, in lines this way, and then, you understand that within that line, they're arranged in the root, then, the third back there, and then the, you know, the major, the minor, the seventh and the diminished, and you just practice. You should be able to, you know, coordinate the left and right hands, and before long, you'll be playing the accordion.

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