This book uses the solfege method assigning the syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and ti to the seven notes of the major scale. Nonetheless, a method book needs some kind of music notation. Like great jazz performers, this in no way detracts from their ability to create exciting and beautiful music. Indeed some of the greatest button-accordionists play only by ear.
Note reading is also not necessary to learn how to play the button-box. This book is unique, as every other button-accordion method I have seen does not recognize the simple fact that the button-accordion is a transposing instrument and all its music can be written in the key of “C.” This greatly simplifies learning the instrument and allows the student to make rapid progress early on. If he wants to play in another key (on the one-row button-box accordion), he has to pick up another instrument tuned to that key! You can find button-accordions in C, in G, in D in F and Bb practically in every key.īecause the diatonic button-accordion is a transposing instrument, a player needs only to learn the fingering and notes for one scale: the C major scale. The button-accordion is also a transposing instrument, as different instruments play in different keys. This means that when a clarinetist or a trumpet player plays the note “C” on his or her instrument, another pitch (such as “Bb”) sounds (unlike a piano, which is written in “Concert Pitch,” or “C”). The diatonic button-accordion (diatonic means it can only play in one key not a chromatic instrument which can play all the sharps and flats like the piano) is a transposing instrument-like many woodwind and brass instruments, such as the clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and French horn.
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