Thank you for adding the actual notes and intervals etc by means of a chart. This is the first video after watching dozens that has made it clear as to what values and intervals are. This has now explained it to me. Thanks so very much 👌🌌🌠
omg, you are awsome!!!! I've been searching for a tutorial like this for quite a while and you explained it perfectly! I used to play synthesizer so that part was the only thing I didn't understood. Now I'm playing Dirty old town, my first song on accordion, and thanx to you, I can also play bass/chords. Thank you so very much!
Thanks, I understand finally. I just picked up an accordion at an estate sale and I couldn't figure it out. It has a 12x4 bass but the first 4 rows are the same as your bass. What a brilliant instrument!
Sir, I am writing from Turkey, in our country there are thousands of accordion, adequately exercised that very little training video as you do can be called no Turkish, see enter you tube if you want, Binding, Revel, and I play though the violin at least 60 years old and the music I love, Accordion I got it right, I'm good at elimination, I did not solve the left, I do not speak English, I told you so well I'll try the bass sounds. You are well, thank you thousands of times. Best regards
Of course there are 12 Bass Notes & 48 Chords (Major, Minor, 7th, & Diminished) in total because what the inventor did rather cleverly is to have all the buttons that play the same Note/Chord move together, this way it's easier to reach.
@@clawmansegele1988 are you being facetious ... my question is coming form someone that has no clue about music.. but I do enjoy it and I do hear when its not right. but I don't know witch base not to play and when... do you understand the question. for someone musically inclined it might be so obvious but for mi it is incomprehensible
I have a 48 bass piano accordion, I really want to play one particular song, but it requires 7th chords. Is it possible to bypass this by playing for example C E Bb simultaneously and get the same effect as C7. Is it feasible?
John Contoso You can do it, but it takes practice. I have friends that were limited by an accordion without the 7ths row, and they simply practiced left-hand melodies/bass lines incorporating all of these notes (C E Bb as you noted, for example). It might sound cleaner that way than to press them all at the same time--might sound a little ugly depending on your model. Hope that helps.
Hello Jordan new sub here, this is really great stuff !! Im thinking about starting learning to play, what do u think is a good accordion for beginners , what bass system ?Thx !
Welcome aboard the accordion train! I recommend the stradella bass and going with a learner's size of a standard accordion... basically, what you see in this video
That tatty bass strap is probably a consequence of wearing a watch on the left arm. Using 3/2 (for bass/chord) is a waste of the 4th finger. 4/3 is much more logical, for instance, for alternating Root and 5th bass.
Piano side is easy (maybe because I used to play the piano 15years ago, though I hated it as it never offered anything I want to hear), stradella side is hard Its even harder when you move the bellows and your left hand completly looses a sense of direction
Yup, three things at once. The piano side is super easy, especially if you have an intuitive sense of tone (which grows with time, anyway) The stradella, on the other hand, eventually becomes intuitive as a feel-thing, not as a hear-thing. You have to really practice it.
There's a terrific chaotic energy going on here, but it's still more informative than half the stuff I was running into prior.
This is the most clear lesson I found in TH-cam. thankyou
great! glad you like it :)
Best ever explanation on accordion BASS button arrangement 🙏🏼 Namaste from India 🇮🇳
youre the only one on youtube with lighting and camera angles to see what people are doing thank you
Glad it works for you. I always was frustrated with the other channels, even though they're way better accordionists than me ;-P
Thank you for adding the actual notes and intervals etc by means of a chart. This is the first video after watching dozens that has made it clear as to what values and intervals are. This has now explained it to me. Thanks so very much 👌🌌🌠
You're welcome! Glad you like it :)
omg, you are awsome!!!! I've been searching for a tutorial like this for quite a while and you explained it perfectly! I used to play synthesizer so that part was the only thing I didn't understood. Now I'm playing Dirty old town, my first song on accordion, and thanx to you, I can also play bass/chords. Thank you so very much!
:))
Thanks, I understand finally. I just picked up an accordion at an estate sale and I couldn't figure it out. It has a 12x4 bass but the first 4 rows are the same as your bass. What a brilliant instrument!
great!
Can’t thank you enough 👍🎼👏🏻🥰
Love your name, Jordan accordion!
It's got a nice ring to it hey?
Sir, I am writing from Turkey, in our country there are thousands of accordion, adequately exercised that very little training video as you do can be called no Turkish, see enter you tube if you want, Binding, Revel, and I play though the violin at least 60 years old and the music I love, Accordion I got it right, I'm good at elimination, I did not solve the left, I do not speak English, I told you so well I'll try the bass sounds. You are well, thank you thousands of times. Best regards
Of course there are 12 Bass Notes & 48 Chords (Major, Minor, 7th, & Diminished) in total because what the inventor did rather cleverly is to have all the buttons that play the same Note/Chord move together, this way it's easier to reach.
f*cking genius right?!
Love it man thx
Will start practising
Thanks man, really helpful just saved up and brought one xD You rock
Interesting, good video ! Thanks
how do I know witch base to play with witch note.
And witch letters to speell in witch ordor
@@clawmansegele1988 are you being facetious ... my question is coming form someone that has no clue about music.. but I do enjoy it and I do hear when its not right. but I don't know witch base not to play and when... do you understand the question. for someone musically inclined it might be so obvious but for mi it is incomprehensible
learn music from a good acc teacher then you will know.
I wouldn’t say you need a teacher, just read about scales and harmony, then you will know some what what goes nect
As Joe Gancher writes - accordion bass goes UP in 5ths and DOWN in 4ths. Please teach well.
i like the melody at 5:20, but i dont know which button to press, pls can u tell me whicg buttons?
There is a tutorial for this song here: 3. Write Me a Waltz - Possibilities with the Accordion - Accordion Lessons
What does the switches do? My accordion has five and I don’t know what they do!
They change the reed configurations/combinations to change the sound
I have a 48 bass piano accordion, I really want to play one particular song, but it requires 7th chords. Is it possible to bypass this by playing for example C E Bb simultaneously and get the same effect as C7. Is it feasible?
John Contoso You can do it, but it takes practice. I have friends that were limited by an accordion without the 7ths row, and they simply practiced left-hand melodies/bass lines incorporating all of these notes (C E Bb as you noted, for example). It might sound cleaner that way than to press them all at the same time--might sound a little ugly depending on your model. Hope that helps.
Hello Jordan new sub here, this is really great stuff !! Im thinking about starting learning to play, what do u think is a good accordion for beginners , what bass system ?Thx !
Welcome aboard the accordion train! I recommend the stradella bass and going with a learner's size of a standard accordion... basically, what you see in this video
That tatty bass strap is probably a consequence of wearing a watch on the left arm. Using 3/2 (for bass/chord) is a waste of the 4th finger. 4/3 is much more logical, for instance, for alternating Root and 5th bass.
looks like the high g key is broken.
You never go that high anyway
Piano side is easy (maybe because I used to play the piano 15years ago, though I hated it as it never offered anything I want to hear), stradella side is hard
Its even harder when you move the bellows and your left hand completly looses a sense of direction
Yup, three things at once. The piano side is super easy, especially if you have an intuitive sense of tone (which grows with time, anyway)
The stradella, on the other hand, eventually becomes intuitive as a feel-thing, not as a hear-thing. You have to really practice it.
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3:54 lol