The boompta goompta technique is called stride playing. The wikipedia article will tell you that it's a jazz piano technique that arose from ragtime, but the exact same technique has been around since Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt if not before them. Listen to the middle part of Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, for example! Anyway, that's what it's called.
Hi! I love your videos and your accordion chord charts. I have a LaScala medium-sized accordion and have been looking for a smaller one. After much shopping around (including following you), I bought a Hohner Bravo like yours but red. It arrived today, and I absolutely love it! It fits my frame. I am 5'2" and 70 years old. I originally learned to play the accordion when I was 8 years old. After decades with no accordion, I got a medium-sized 1960s Hohner and relearned the accordion during the pandemic with your help and AccordionLove. Thank you!
Aw, hi Pamela!! Thank you so much for the kind words, I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying the accordion content! So cool that you picked up a Bravo too, they're great aren't they?! Happy to have you part of the accordion community once again! I wish you many blessings and beautiful times behind the box :) if you ever need a hand with anything or any questions at all, don't hesitate to reach out!
Hi Denny, my first time on your channel. Your practical approach resonates with me because I'm also a self-taught Afro-jazz accordionist from Cape Town. Your practical method captured my attention and allowed me to watch the entire 22-minute video. Thanks a mil. You're a great teacher.
Hey Henry!! Thanks for dropping by and sticking with me throughout the video. I really appreciate the kind word :) Hope this method is something you're able to incorporate here and there within your music and makes things a little bit easier. Hope you have an amazing week my friend!
Hey Denny! Great video. The reason Stradella dominant and diminished 7th is to allow for some specific versatility in making other harmonic chords. Let's say you want an augmented 7th. You can get that with a dominant 7th and the proper additional note in either the right hand, or via the counterbass row (as you do with the minor hack). Major 7ths work using one major chord and a minor chord button together. For instance, CMaj7 can be formed using the CM button paired with the Em button. A bit of a stretch, but if you "read" those notes, you find that you have C, E, G, & B. Voila! Major 7th. Playing around with two-button combos finds lots of interesting chord combos, as in the Chord Extensions book (and maybe a few new ones!). P.S. Thanks for the Circle of Fifths Pin....
Hmm that’s very interesting, I knew there had to be some other reasons for it… I also noticed that all rows in, we’ll say C, include the C note so I wonder if that’s a mandatory note that makes everything possible from a design standpoint. All those small bent pieces of metal needing to be in a certain formation to pull it all off… like for a dim 7, it would make sense that they used the three note Eb, Gb and A then using the root note C to complete it… same with the 7th, having the triad button be E, G and Bb, then using the root C to complete it… I wonder if that would even be possible from a design standpoint or if they absolutely needed to include at least a minimum of C to make it possible…. Either way, I can’t imagine the thought process of the person who invented these crazy instruments! 😂
My guess was also that thos cheat is not a cheat at all, it is the intended way to play minor7 chords, and also maj7, maj 9 and dom9 chords. It's seems though that gettings clean and full sus4 and sus2 chords is not possible using the chord buttons. One kind of has to go with playing sus chords on the melody side.
@@JBergmanssonI don't play the accordion, but I am curious. Why can't you play the sus2 and sus4 chords by pressing three adjacent buttons in the root note row?
Many Thanks for this Brilliant Hack, if you were playing to an audience 99% would notice the min /min7. I am 74 and still learning so will definately be using this, have subscribed please keep up the good work helping others. Really Appreciated Clive UK (Roland FR-4X)
@@clivejolley6881 I’m happy to hear it’s helpful Clive! Makes such a difference to have an alternative like that in the toolbox if the right progression calls for it. Any little bit to help save wasted movement adds up when standing but even when seated it’s a joy to use because it’s just easier. Hope you get a lot out of it my friend!! -Denny
Great explanation. I have never developed more than a basic use of the bases and counterbases and thid video opened my eyes to the hack that I think can learn to use. thanks.
Great lesson. Love the way you demonstrate with a chart (on the left side of page) pointing out exactly which buttons you are referring to. Thanks. Have been following Ronan Segal for many years. Looking forward to following you as well.
Lovely video - you have a great teaching manner! I call the stride left hand pattern ‘oomcha’ - and so does my accordion student! Keep up the good work 🎶😃
Ah thank you Jon, that's very kind of you to say! I struggled with learning growing up so I try my best to make it so anyone can follow along even if it takes a little over-explaining. Appreciate you tuning in and saying hello, wishing you a Merry Christmas my friend! Much love from Buffalo, NY! 🙌❤☺
Hi Denny....love your video. I discovered this as well just experimenting.....i blew my left rotator cuff about 3 years ago but have been rehabbing and just started playing again. My shoulder will never be 100% again however I will get by.....love your style and methodology. I will subscribe because at 72 I don't have time to go the traditional route for learning. I plan on getting a smaller accordion, likely 72 or 96 bass wet tuned as I love musette. Thanks for your videos and I think I found my mentor. Ciao!!
Hey Bruce! So happy to hear you enjoyed the video, thank you for such kind words!! Very sorry to hear about your shoulder, I know how troubling that can be… I had to slow down playing for a solid year or more while I slowly rehabbed mine… I injured mine slowly but surely by playing Roland’s giant 8x standing without a backstrap… plus, I’m pretty sure the unnatural breathe of the synthetic bellows on those electric accordions has the potential to wear out the shoulder quicker. When I switched back to acoustic, it was a night and day difference. Hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving and that you find yourself behind the box more and more as you continue to rehab your injury. Much love and greetings from Buffalo, NY! -Denny
You're very welcome my friend! :) yeah, it's been pretty crazy to progress with the instrument over the last 12 years or so and to have never come across anyone making mention of this, yet its such a helpful and simple technique. Hope it serves you well!! 🙂
I blocked the 3rds on all my 12 bass chord buttons. Now ican play a few 6th chords, and a few 7sus4 chords. And the best part is that any of the 6 bass buttons can used in minor or major songs. I am a regular contributor to Ronen's monthly challenges. At Accordion Love forum.
Very interesting Rudy, sounds like you're really squeezing every bit out of that 12 bass over there :) super cool. Ronen is the man, such an accordion saint 🙌
@@SqueezeandThanks Yes. A modified 12 bass is simple in design, yet complicated in it's possibilities. Cross fingering on the left hand gives you so many tonal combinations.
Great video! Got an old accordion that I play occasionally when Iam in my hometone. Finally got around taking it with me, so I can practise more. Its also a 48 button Accordion, and often I had to transpose songs I knew on Piano, to be able to fit it in the chords/the claviature. Gonna try that technique you're showing! This could save me some hazzle :)
Awesome, hope it helps my friend!! Yeah the little 48 bass accordions are a lot of fun, using the minor 7th definitely allows you to broaden the range on it which is much needed at that size. Every bit helps! Hope you had a great thanksgiving!
What you are playing for folk is called the "cross-over". Either you alternate the counterbass, or the bass row above with the chords to give an oom-cha sound.
I just stumbled across this about two weeks ago quite by accident. LOL I actually couldn't believe it when I realized it, I thought surely it couldn't be so simple and work so well or I would have heard about it. Nope. ;) It can make some passages much much easier. ;) There is one song I was working with that was Am F G C and this hack makes it so simple.
Hey Steven! Haha it's crazy, right? It's such a basic fundamental thing that really makes everything so much easier. I'm happy I could share it with ya and bring some ease to those tricky chord changes :)
thanks! this is really great, Ive been feeling into how many bass buttons I want and its great to know if I go for less I can still create some of the missing chords! Im feeling really drawn to a 40 bass Cantulia that has such a great sound, and conflicted with not having all the buttons, thanks a million, going to go with my heart! :):)
That means a lot to have you say that, thank you! :) I struggled with learning in school so I know how important it can be relaying things clearly so they can be understood clearly. Appreciate the comment Gerhard ❤
Hi it's amazing that you teach these hacks. Very useful hack especially if your playing Espana cani (tango) jumping from E to F lol. Wow I don't have to hit or miss any keys anymore. But you have to re educate your brain. I wish they showed me this when I first started to play accordion.
I've got the 48 bass and wondered how to get that sound you have in your head but just can't find. Thank you so much for explaining all this. I'm one of those people that's heavy on theory but comes ungled when people listen. More knowledge is better!
Hey Jane!! You’re actually not wrong in your assumption, you probably do hear certain sounds but are unable to find them on the bass with only a 48… so to play something like a C# major, you would need the range of at least a 72. Keys in sharps and flats will be tricky on smaller accordions because of this. If you decide to upgrade, a 96 bass gives you (what I think) is the perfect range. Allows you to play in every key but is a touch smaller, lighter and cheaper than a full 120. In the mean time, in order to play a song you want that doesn’t fit the 48 bass, you can transpose it to another key and learn it like that and that will allow you to use what you have available on the 48… definitely a bit of a hassle but transposing is a good skill to try and develop. Hope this helps Jane!
This is more advanced than I play but very interesting and what a great discovery you made! Also, wonderful to know the name of the stride pattern, but I love the name you have for it, oompta goompta. ❤
Stick with it Rhea, you got this!! This should definitely come in handy with consolidating those big jumps, although it’s good to able to know your jumps and get comfortable with both ways
I just downloaded your accordion chart, I love it! So question, if I want to use this hack to play D minor 7, I should play the D on the counter row and the F Major button?
Hi Denny You can also play the umpta goompta goompta bass for waltz tunes. I think this is a really effective bass pattern. so in C it goes C bass, Cmajor, Cmajor, G bass, Cmajor, Cmajor. I'm sure you do all these patterns but sometimes just a simple bass line is best. ( less is more ). Thanks for the chord chart.
Super interesting to hear this Paul, I will have to try that out when I come across the right song for it! I'm constantly surprised with how endless the possibilities are with this instrument, it's pretty crazy! Appreciate ya sharing this brother, hope you have a wonderful holiday season my friend!
I noticed if you stack two vertically adjacent minors you get a min9? It was a fun little thing to accidentally discover. Then the accordion is directly laid out in a circle progression, it's pretty Jazzy.
Hi Denny. I stumbled in to this but didn't know how it worked, so thank you so much. So I would like to see you play. what is your full name. do you have youtube videos of your performances?
This should help quite a bit once you start to grasp the basics and the handling of it. It’s tricky at first, but stay with it!! Promise it gets easier ♥️
They are called rootless voicings on the piano. In jazz, the assumption is that the Bass player plays the root. So the piano plays 3-5-7-9 as the basics for the chords. Playing A and then a Cmaj as the a-minor is like playing the aminor rootless.
I would love to have a Piano 120 bass accordion again. Your instructions are great thanks for posting. I play a Tyros 3 and like you, I play by ear. You are nothing short of a Geneous to figure this all out was probably a very big challenge. When I had a 120 bass piano accordion I used to play Dimished with my thumb it always worked and was so convenient. Why not use your thumb right?
Man, Patrick.... Thank you so much for the kind words brother, means a lot! Far from genius 😂 just a little fooling around with combinations and approaching it from a nontraditional mindset. Have you stopped playing the accordion due to physical limitations? Ever consider a smaller box? I'm a huge advocate for smaller accordions after my shoulder injury... Hope you have a great weekend!!
The reason there are only three notes on the chord buttons is to keep the air usage by the bellows consistent, otherwise if chords have different numbers of notes to them, they would use different amounts of air so the chords would feel easier/harder to play with the bellows.
Dang I never would have considered that to be a factor but that makes so much sense! Appreciate ya sharing that Alex :) Do you know if they ever had 4 note chord buttons on early models?
I didn't know that the accordion fully diminished 7th chord only had three notes. On that NOTE (see what I did there), I have a hack for that. Play any diminished chord button with either your index or pinky finger, and use the other finger ±3 buttons away on THAT diminished button. For example, C diminished with your index finger and A diminished with your pinky, or C diminished with your pinky and Eb diminished with your index finger. I suppose you could try Eb diminished with your index, C diminished with your middle, and A diminished with your pinky, but you will get diminishing returns (see what I did there).
Just browsing through this video, I felt a bit uneasy, then I worked it out. WHY, does your stradella bass diagram look upside down? Why are the flats ABOVE C, sharps BELOW?
Hey there! The diagram is set up in a “top down” viewing articulation… so if you were to take the accordions layout and peel it up 180 degrees from being on your chest to laid out in front of you (upside down) to look at it. It’s different than any other configuration you may have seen before but I settled on this design for a few reasons… when you reach up and play ontop of the chart, it translates down on the keys and buttons perfectly… so if you reach up and play on the chart on the screen or on the wall, you can drop it down ontop the accordion and it translates perfectly allowing for the same patterns you drew out on the diagram, now on the accordion down below you. If you play a C, Am, F, G on the screen or on the wall poster, you’ll see that the directions in which you move are the same both on the chart and then down on the accordion. It definitely takes getting used just like anything but I tried to design something that would be the shortest learning curve possible for someone coming at it from a completely new perspective. I started by using a 120 bass chart I found that was horizontal, as if you’re looking at it when it’s seated down on the bass strap with the keys pointing up… an articulation that made me turn my head sideways every time I read it and didn’t make much sense once you turn the accordion 90 degrees to put the accordion on. Hopefully this shed a little light on the configuration. My “free accordion chord chart” video explains this a bit more too… hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving! 🦃
@@colette2612 if you refer to the other video I made, I believe it’s called “free accordion chord chart”, I go over the reasoning behind the layout. It’s different from other charts but it’s more of a top down view, as if you were to extend your neck and look down on it. When you lift your hand over the chart when it’s in front of you, going up on the chart is going away from your head and point of view (going down on the bass), and going down on the chart is going closer to your head (going up on the bass). It’s a little tricky at first if you’re used to other charts but once you grasp it, it’s much more intuitive. There’s definitely a little learning curve but if a beginner were to approach the instrument and look at a bunch of different chart layouts unbiasedly without having experience with any of them, they most likely would find this chart to be easiest to work with. Hope the explanation helps a bit! 😊
Denny bless u days of wine roses I made up button. Rhythm bass chord bass Bass chord bass on 4tth beat chord chord I have to have that rhythm I. Made up😊😊😊😊
This video may be helpful for beginners, but there really should be a moratorium on the word "hack" for things that are simply common techniques that have been used by accordionists forever. This is elementary stuff. Calling it a "secret" is nonsensical.
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Lol, I love how you say Boompta Goompta at 12:35, so matter-of-factly. Very good video. You’re a very good teacher
Hahaha glad you got a kick out of my antics 🙃 happy to hear you enjoyed the tutorial!Appreciate your support Rhea ♥️
The boompta goompta technique is called stride playing. The wikipedia article will tell you that it's a jazz piano technique that arose from ragtime, but the exact same technique has been around since Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt if not before them. Listen to the middle part of Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, for example! Anyway, that's what it's called.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing this Adam! 😊
Thank you Adam, I never knew what it was called either!
Hi! I love your videos and your accordion chord charts. I have a LaScala medium-sized accordion and have been looking for a smaller one. After much shopping around (including following you), I bought a Hohner Bravo like yours but red. It arrived today, and I absolutely love it! It fits my frame. I am 5'2" and 70 years old. I originally learned to play the accordion when I was 8 years old. After decades with no accordion, I got a medium-sized 1960s Hohner and relearned the accordion during the pandemic with your help and AccordionLove. Thank you!
Aw, hi Pamela!! Thank you so much for the kind words, I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying the accordion content! So cool that you picked up a Bravo too, they're great aren't they?! Happy to have you part of the accordion community once again! I wish you many blessings and beautiful times behind the box :) if you ever need a hand with anything or any questions at all, don't hesitate to reach out!
Hi Denny, my first time on your channel. Your practical approach resonates with me because I'm also a self-taught Afro-jazz accordionist from Cape Town. Your practical method captured my attention and allowed me to watch the entire 22-minute video. Thanks a mil. You're a great teacher.
Hey Henry!! Thanks for dropping by and sticking with me throughout the video. I really appreciate the kind word :) Hope this method is something you're able to incorporate here and there within your music and makes things a little bit easier. Hope you have an amazing week my friend!
Alternating bass. I use alternating bass all the time on my box’s. My preferred box is the 5 row continental chromatic accordion.
Correct.
hi Denny
the umpta goompta as you call it is called the alternating bass or i often refer to it as polka bass
Correct - Alternating Bass.
Denny, I wish you would keep making beginners video’s! Really appreciate the accordion sheets you made up! We ordered them from you.👍
Aw thank you for saying that and supporting me with the charts! More soon! :)
Hey Denny! Great video. The reason Stradella dominant and diminished 7th is to allow for some specific versatility in making other harmonic chords. Let's say you want an augmented 7th. You can get that with a dominant 7th and the proper additional note in either the right hand, or via the counterbass row (as you do with the minor hack). Major 7ths work using one major chord and a minor chord button together. For instance, CMaj7 can be formed using the CM button paired with the Em button. A bit of a stretch, but if you "read" those notes, you find that you have C, E, G, & B. Voila! Major 7th. Playing around with two-button combos finds lots of interesting chord combos, as in the Chord Extensions book (and maybe a few new ones!). P.S. Thanks for the Circle of Fifths Pin....
Hmm that’s very interesting, I knew there had to be some other reasons for it… I also noticed that all rows in, we’ll say C, include the C note so I wonder if that’s a mandatory note that makes everything possible from a design standpoint. All those small bent pieces of metal needing to be in a certain formation to pull it all off… like for a dim 7, it would make sense that they used the three note Eb, Gb and A then using the root note C to complete it… same with the 7th, having the triad button be E, G and Bb, then using the root C to complete it… I wonder if that would even be possible from a design standpoint or if they absolutely needed to include at least a minimum of C to make it possible…. Either way, I can’t imagine the thought process of the person who invented these crazy instruments! 😂
And I’m glad you like the pins I sent over! 👍
My guess was also that thos cheat is not a cheat at all, it is the intended way to play minor7 chords, and also maj7, maj 9 and dom9 chords.
It's seems though that gettings clean and full sus4 and sus2 chords is not possible using the chord buttons. One kind of has to go with playing sus chords on the melody side.
@@JBergmanssonI don't play the accordion, but I am curious. Why can't you play the sus2 and sus4 chords by pressing three adjacent buttons in the root note row?
@@matejlieskovsky9625Here’s a video explaining that exact thing!
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Many Thanks for this Brilliant Hack, if you were playing to an audience 99% would notice the min /min7. I am 74 and still learning so will definately be using this, have subscribed please keep up the good work helping others. Really Appreciated Clive UK (Roland FR-4X)
@@clivejolley6881 I’m happy to hear it’s helpful Clive! Makes such a difference to have an alternative like that in the toolbox if the right progression calls for it. Any little bit to help save wasted movement adds up when standing but even when seated it’s a joy to use because it’s just easier. Hope you get a lot out of it my friend!! -Denny
Great explanation. I have never developed more than a basic use of the bases and counterbases and thid video opened my eyes to the hack that I think can learn to use. thanks.
So glad it’s helped, my friend! 😊🪗♥️
I think it is called an Alternating Bass Pattern at 12:17
That makes sense, haha thank you!
@@SqueezeandThanks you're welcome
In brazil I lernead it as triangle or triangulation.
Correct.
Great lesson. Love the way you demonstrate with a chart (on the left side of page) pointing out exactly which buttons you are referring to. Thanks. Have been following Ronan Segal for many years. Looking forward to following you as well.
Hey Tim, glad you enjoyed it brother!! And thank you so much for becoming a Patreon member! ♥️ really appreciate the support
Finally getting all the minors I want
Thanks for the shout out and the hack! Excited to try it 😁
Of course, so perfect that you got that accordion when you did! ☺️
Great video! Well done!
Thanks Will!! :)
I envy you guys. I struggle to play wellerman on a $35 melodian. But I do appreciate good accordion playing.
There's always room for more here in the accordion community my friend! 🤗
Can you do a video of the circle of 5ths you seem to have the nack of teaching and explaining very well as an accordion teacher.
I appreciate that! I will keep that in mind for a future video, that would probably be helpful for people 😊
I think your minor 7 hack is great. I've been playing minor chords instead of minor 7s so there are two benefits for me.
@@stephanieblythe aw good, glad to hear it’s been helpful!! ♥️🙏💯
This video is pureGold ! Thanks bruh !
Aw I’m so glad to hear that :) I’m happy to hear you enjoyed it!
This blew my mind!! Thank you!!
Aw good, glad to hear it, I hope it comes in handy for ya! :)
Lovely video - you have a great teaching manner! I call the stride left hand pattern ‘oomcha’ - and so does my accordion student! Keep up the good work 🎶😃
Ah thank you Jon, that's very kind of you to say! I struggled with learning growing up so I try my best to make it so anyone can follow along even if it takes a little over-explaining. Appreciate you tuning in and saying hello, wishing you a Merry Christmas my friend! Much love from Buffalo, NY! 🙌❤☺
Hey, you know Ronen! My two fave TH-camrs!
It's an honor to be up there with Ronen haha thank you so much!! :) much love my friend!!
really useful tips, thanks !
You're welcome Brian, happy to hear that!
Super cool video! Very informative!
Thanks brother, loved that cover of yours you let me use, favorite accordion tune I’ve heard in a longggg time! 🙌🙌🙌
Hi Denny....love your video. I discovered this as well just experimenting.....i blew my left rotator cuff about 3 years ago but have been rehabbing and just started playing again. My shoulder will never be 100% again however I will get by.....love your style and methodology. I will subscribe because at 72 I don't have time to go the traditional route for learning. I plan on getting a smaller accordion, likely 72 or 96 bass wet tuned as I love musette. Thanks for your videos and I think I found my mentor. Ciao!!
Hey Bruce! So happy to hear you enjoyed the video, thank you for such kind words!! Very sorry to hear about your shoulder, I know how troubling that can be… I had to slow down playing for a solid year or more while I slowly rehabbed mine… I injured mine slowly but surely by playing Roland’s giant 8x standing without a backstrap… plus, I’m pretty sure the unnatural breathe of the synthetic bellows on those electric accordions has the potential to wear out the shoulder quicker. When I switched back to acoustic, it was a night and day difference.
Hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving and that you find yourself behind the box more and more as you continue to rehab your injury. Much love and greetings from Buffalo, NY! -Denny
This is great value, love it man :)
Thanks for stopping by and checking it out man :)
Thanks! Appreciate your tips!
You’re very welcome Juha, glad they’re coming in handy!
Thanks, that's a great tip, I've been playing and learning by myself for a couple years and didn't know any easy method for minor7 cords...
You're welcome, glad you found it helpful! :)
Some great material here!
Thanks so much my dude, this was a fun one to put together! :)
Where can I find the cover of Reflections at 13:43?
You can find that on Evan’s instagram, his @ handle is tagged in the video :)
Thank you so much!
Love the counter bass row 7 hack, it solve the 48 bass 12x4 no 7 row challenge, genius!
Im so glad it’s been helpful for ya!! 😊🪗♥️
Great explanation, thx! I do play since years and never heard about this, not even by my teachers.
You're very welcome my friend! :) yeah, it's been pretty crazy to progress with the instrument over the last 12 years or so and to have never come across anyone making mention of this, yet its such a helpful and simple technique. Hope it serves you well!! 🙂
I blocked the 3rds on all my 12 bass chord buttons. Now ican play a few 6th chords, and a few 7sus4 chords. And the best part is that any of the 6 bass buttons can used in minor or major songs.
I am a regular contributor to Ronen's monthly challenges.
At Accordion Love forum.
Very interesting Rudy, sounds like you're really squeezing every bit out of that 12 bass over there :) super cool. Ronen is the man, such an accordion saint 🙌
@@SqueezeandThanks Yes. A modified 12 bass is simple in design, yet complicated in it's possibilities.
Cross fingering on the left hand gives you so many tonal combinations.
Always awesome tips. Thanks, Denny!
Thanks for tuning in Rachel 🙌 😊
I learned this playing the root note in the fundamental bass row.
Great video! Got an old accordion that I play occasionally when Iam in my hometone. Finally got around taking it with me, so I can practise more. Its also a 48 button Accordion, and often I had to transpose songs I knew on Piano, to be able to fit it in the chords/the claviature. Gonna try that technique you're showing! This could save me some hazzle :)
Awesome, hope it helps my friend!! Yeah the little 48 bass accordions are a lot of fun, using the minor 7th definitely allows you to broaden the range on it which is much needed at that size. Every bit helps! Hope you had a great thanksgiving!
What you are playing for folk is called the "cross-over". Either you alternate the counterbass, or the bass row above with the chords to give an oom-cha sound.
I just stumbled across this about two weeks ago quite by accident. LOL I actually couldn't believe it when I realized it, I thought surely it couldn't be so simple and work so well or I would have heard about it. Nope. ;) It can make some passages much much easier. ;) There is one song I was working with that was Am F G C and this hack makes it so simple.
Hey Steven! Haha it's crazy, right? It's such a basic fundamental thing that really makes everything so much easier. I'm happy I could share it with ya and bring some ease to those tricky chord changes :)
As a Pro bassist of 60yrs I refer the bassline YOU asked about as the 5th from below. example D\A the D being the root and A as the 5th from below.
This is GREAT STUFF. Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed it Steven!! Hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving brother ♥️
@@SqueezeandThanks Ditto-thank YOU!
Very interesting approach, I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing it with us!
You’re very welcome, hope it’s helps!! 😊
thanks! this is really great, Ive been feeling into how many bass buttons I want and its great to know if I go for less I can still create some of the missing chords! Im feeling really drawn to a 40 bass Cantulia that has such a great sound, and conflicted with not having all the buttons, thanks a million, going to go with my heart! :):)
Hey there Hari! Glad to hear this helped :) did you wind up getting the 40 bass? Which row is that missing, the diminished row?
Great explanation thanks a lot
You’re welcome George! 😊🙏💯
Thanks for this, it will be very useful.
wowwwwww the master ty u man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’re very welcome my friend!! :)
I enjoy listening to your tutorials. You are wonderful teacher, explainer of things, fantastic work! Thank you!
That means a lot to have you say that, thank you! :) I struggled with learning in school so I know how important it can be relaying things clearly so they can be understood clearly. Appreciate the comment Gerhard ❤
12:25 we call it the Umpa loompa
Thanks alot for the video. I have a 48 bass accordion and miss the Bb7 sometimes. How do I make that one? thanks
The Bb7 is within the standard range of a 48, it’s two rows down from the C
My new accordion brother.
Thanks for this Idee. I Was looking for the minor7 since half a year. Now i know what do.
Hi it's amazing that you teach these hacks. Very useful hack especially if your playing Espana cani (tango) jumping from E to F lol. Wow I don't have to hit or miss any keys anymore. But you have to re educate your brain. I wish they showed me this when I first started to play accordion.
Glad you found it useful! I figured this out early on and have never looked back :)
awesome video huge thank you it actually helped me expand my 72bass and btw that rhythm is 3/4 and normally it's called oom pah pah
Thank you so much, glad to hear you found some use for this! :)
Gracias por es te video, te he descubierto desde Islas Canarias, soy principiante y este video ayuda mucho.
I've got the 48 bass and wondered how to get that sound you have in your head but just can't find. Thank you so much for explaining all this. I'm one of those people that's heavy on theory but comes ungled when people listen. More knowledge is better!
Hey Jane!! You’re actually not wrong in your assumption, you probably do hear certain sounds but are unable to find them on the bass with only a 48… so to play something like a C# major, you would need the range of at least a 72. Keys in sharps and flats will be tricky on smaller accordions because of this. If you decide to upgrade, a 96 bass gives you (what I think) is the perfect range. Allows you to play in every key but is a touch smaller, lighter and cheaper than a full 120.
In the mean time, in order to play a song you want that doesn’t fit the 48 bass, you can transpose it to another key and learn it like that and that will allow you to use what you have available on the 48… definitely a bit of a hassle but transposing is a good skill to try and develop. Hope this helps Jane!
This is more advanced than I play but very interesting and what a great discovery you made!
Also, wonderful to know the name of the stride pattern, but I love the name you have for it, oompta goompta. ❤
Stick with it Rhea, you got this!! This should definitely come in handy with consolidating those big jumps, although it’s good to able to know your jumps and get comfortable with both ways
A great thanx. Man, you are Jesus! ❤ Probably you salvaged my hands and brain from a terrible switching buttons pain🎉🎉
What a compliment to try and live up to 😅 haha glad this helped ya Nikita!!
This was really helpful...Thank you...👍🏻🙏🏼
You’re very welcome Sagar, glad you found it helpful my friend ♥️
I just downloaded your accordion chart, I love it! So question, if I want to use this hack to play D minor 7, I should play the D on the counter row and the F Major button?
Souch a great video
How did you synhronize your cord chart with what you played?
Is there any software that does that automaticly?
Thanks!! I wish there was software for that… hours and hours of tedious editing 😂
Hi Denny
You can also play the umpta goompta goompta bass for waltz tunes. I think this is a really effective bass pattern. so in C it goes C bass, Cmajor, Cmajor, G bass, Cmajor, Cmajor. I'm sure you do all these patterns but sometimes just a simple bass line is best. ( less is more ).
Thanks for the chord chart.
Super interesting to hear this Paul, I will have to try that out when I come across the right song for it! I'm constantly surprised with how endless the possibilities are with this instrument, it's pretty crazy! Appreciate ya sharing this brother, hope you have a wonderful holiday season my friend!
quick question I recognize that little accordion does it say where it was made?
I noticed if you stack two vertically adjacent minors you get a min9? It was a fun little thing to accidentally discover. Then the accordion is directly laid out in a circle progression, it's pretty Jazzy.
Hi Denny. I stumbled in to this but didn't know how it worked, so thank you so much. So I would like to see you play. what is your full name. do you have youtube videos of your performances?
You’re welcome! 😊 I have plenty of videos on this channel if you surf around a bit, hope you enjoy them!
very interesting,only a beginner
This should help quite a bit once you start to grasp the basics and the handling of it. It’s tricky at first, but stay with it!! Promise it gets easier ♥️
I'm learning a piece that goes from an F# chord to an F natural chord. That's so much fun...
I wish I knew more theory around changes like that. Them weird changes are always so interesting when they're at just the right spot
Sup man just saw your sticker on the soap dispenser in Alton’s bathroom
Haha thanks for dropping by Mike! 🙌 hope you dig the channel homie, appreciate you saying what’s up 🤝😊🎶
Wow amazing video, thank you ! Glad I found you ! Your showing of the played chords is amazing and inspiring for tutorials !
Glad you enjoyed the video Ricardo, hope it’s helpful :)
They are called rootless voicings on the piano. In jazz, the assumption is that the Bass player plays the root. So the piano plays 3-5-7-9 as the basics for the chords. Playing A and then a Cmaj as the a-minor is like playing the aminor rootless.
Ah nice, that makes sense in the situation of having the bass player cover it… thanks for sharing that brother!!
The oompah goompah is actually called alternating bass pattern. Good job, Denny! 😊🪗
Correct.
12:25 we call it the Umpa Ompa
I would love to have a Piano 120 bass accordion again. Your instructions are great thanks for posting. I play a Tyros 3 and like you, I play by ear. You are nothing short of a Geneous to figure this all out was probably a very big challenge. When I had a 120 bass piano accordion I used to play Dimished with my thumb it always worked and was so convenient. Why not use your thumb right?
Man, Patrick.... Thank you so much for the kind words brother, means a lot! Far from genius 😂 just a little fooling around with combinations and approaching it from a nontraditional mindset. Have you stopped playing the accordion due to physical limitations? Ever consider a smaller box? I'm a huge advocate for smaller accordions after my shoulder injury... Hope you have a great weekend!!
The reason there are only three notes on the chord buttons is to keep the air usage by the bellows consistent, otherwise if chords have different numbers of notes to them, they would use different amounts of air so the chords would feel easier/harder to play with the bellows.
Dang I never would have considered that to be a factor but that makes so much sense! Appreciate ya sharing that Alex :) Do you know if they ever had 4 note chord buttons on early models?
@@SqueezeandThanks Good question, I don't!
I am interested in the hacks, but would like a chart or clearer explanation please maybe with charts....???
@@auntkalei5001 sure thing, what exactly can I help clarify? Feel free to shoot me an email too if you’d like, squeezeandthanks@gmail.com
My father has always referred to that one song as the "dumb papa" because thats what it sounds like
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6:31 was clean as fuck
@@coelacanth64 haha thanks, it took way too long 😅
Thanks Denny, this is exciting and definitely will give it a try. Thanks for all you do ! 🪗 - Michael in Texas 🤠
Hey Michael, thanks for saying that brother! Much love and greetings from Buffalo, NY!! 🙂
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I didn't know that the accordion fully diminished 7th chord only had three notes. On that NOTE (see what I did there), I have a hack for that. Play any diminished chord button with either your index or pinky finger, and use the other finger ±3 buttons away on THAT diminished button. For example, C diminished with your index finger and A diminished with your pinky, or C diminished with your pinky and Eb diminished with your index finger.
I suppose you could try Eb diminished with your index, C diminished with your middle, and A diminished with your pinky, but you will get diminishing returns (see what I did there).
Congratulations! By adding the "a" to the checkers major chord (c,e,g) you just discovered how to make a c 6 chord😅
That bass pattern is called "um pa pa"
I was told it was called alternating bases.
A better name for a "half diminished" chord would be a "minor 7 (b5)"
Example:
Cm7(b5)
C Eb Gb Bb
1 b3 b5 b7
Just browsing through this video, I felt a bit uneasy, then I worked it out.
WHY, does your stradella bass diagram look upside down? Why are the flats ABOVE C, sharps BELOW?
Hey there! The diagram is set up in a “top down” viewing articulation… so if you were to take the accordions layout and peel it up 180 degrees from being on your chest to laid out in front of you (upside down) to look at it. It’s different than any other configuration you may have seen before but I settled on this design for a few reasons… when you reach up and play ontop of the chart, it translates down on the keys and buttons perfectly… so if you reach up and play on the chart on the screen or on the wall, you can drop it down ontop the accordion and it translates perfectly allowing for the same patterns you drew out on the diagram, now on the accordion down below you. If you play a C, Am, F, G on the screen or on the wall poster, you’ll see that the directions in which you move are the same both on the chart and then down on the accordion.
It definitely takes getting used just like anything but I tried to design something that would be the shortest learning curve possible for someone coming at it from a completely new perspective.
I started by using a 120 bass chart I found that was horizontal, as if you’re looking at it when it’s seated down on the bass strap with the keys pointing up… an articulation that made me turn my head sideways every time I read it and didn’t make much sense once you turn the accordion 90 degrees to put the accordion on.
Hopefully this shed a little light on the configuration. My “free accordion chord chart” video explains this a bit more too… hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving! 🦃
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why didn´t you make this video 20 years ago
Haha oh man, that’s a long time without knowing this little trick!
You just realized that C6 is the same as am7, there are also other ways of playing am7 if you are closer to A
Boompta-Goompta... Polka?
Haha pretty much 😂
Alternating Bass.
The boogaloo you referred to I know as um pa
This chart is upside down. It might be confusing as the standard charts are all accordion music is the same... the opposite of this chart.
@@colette2612 if you refer to the other video I made, I believe it’s called “free accordion chord chart”, I go over the reasoning behind the layout. It’s different from other charts but it’s more of a top down view, as if you were to extend your neck and look down on it. When you lift your hand over the chart when it’s in front of you, going up on the chart is going away from your head and point of view (going down on the bass), and going down on the chart is going closer to your head (going up on the bass). It’s a little tricky at first if you’re used to other charts but once you grasp it, it’s much more intuitive. There’s definitely a little learning curve but if a beginner were to approach the instrument and look at a bunch of different chart layouts unbiasedly without having experience with any of them, they most likely would find this chart to be easiest to work with. Hope the explanation helps a bit! 😊
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Denny bless u days of wine roses I made up button. Rhythm bass chord bass
Bass chord bass on 4tth beat chord chord I have to have that rhythm I. Made up😊😊😊😊
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Thank u I love u all great players
This video may be helpful for beginners, but there really should be a moratorium on the word "hack" for things that are simply common techniques that have been used by accordionists forever. This is elementary stuff. Calling it a "secret" is nonsensical.