On the right and left hand sides of the diagram there may be more buttons working exactly the same way depending on the size of the accordion. I know there are some people who have to see it all at once, so here it is, but laid out so you do not have to look at it all at once.
#International button accordion method book full
On the way down I play conventionally since the thumb is already there!Ī Full C Chromatic system Keyboard Layout It can make very easy thumb crossing multi octave arpeggios on the outside row, but you need to choose your keys wisely or choose a different system altogether.Īs a side benefit of playing chromatic I have found that the stepping style movement can also be used particularly on upward chromatic runs on piano style keyboard, avoiding the need to use thumb movement. It is difficult to use the thumb on inner rows also because it will tend to catch on the row(s) closer to the outside. You will get smoother moves using only the fingers it is true, because the thumb works in a different way than the fingers, waving around instead of coming straight down. You will notice many chromatic players appear not to use the thumb and often deliberately hold it tight against the edge of the keyboard so they cannot use it. If you watch expert musicians you will notice their hands appear to hardly move, because they are already where they will need to be. This is vital to agile and smooth playing in either chromatic accordion or piano accordion. It also makes it easy to prepare where you are going in advance better, having your fingers covering the notes you are playing before you actually need to use them. You can feel the chord shapes in the grasp of your fingers in this way. This gives you a better feel for what is going on and makes most movements, especially chord and arpeggio based moves, easier. You may notice that your left and right hand are mirror images of each other!Ī couple of general pointers The Hand position Although the system may be best understood from the top down looking down the keyboard you will need to play with your wrist level, and not pointing up, except in special circumstances.
#International button accordion method book free
NB The C system Free Bass works exactly the same across 4 rows on a convertor system, but in order that the fingering is the same the notes are in the opposite direction. You cannot always look of course, nor should you, so it is customary to mark for touch all the Cs and all the Fs on the chromatic accordion. Notice how this keeps the principle of the same direction of travel for up and down as up being a right hand move for your hand and down is moving to the left as on a piano style keyboard
SUPERTIP: Watch this happen by following the sequence of white and black buttons in the two diagonals from the fourth white button, approximately centre of lowest row shown above. The Remaining right hand upward stroke of the V will be C C# D Eb E Hence choose a C and the left hand part of the V will be C Bb Ab Gb/F# E If you choose to look at a note from the outside row and select notes out from it in a V formation, the beginning of the V will be tones moving back down in a C system and the other stroke of the V will give you semitones going upwards. In this way you can tell whether it is set up in C system (C included on the outside row) or B system (B on the outside) by looking at it.Ī C system instrument will have equal numbers of black and white buttons on the outside, alternately 2 white and 2 black whereas a B system will have the row with 3 white and then 1 black there. To identify the actual notes it is customary to colour the buttons for the piano key they would represent. Unlike the folk style button accordions on chromatic you have enough buttons for every note and do not have to worry about them varying with bellows direction. Probably because of the effort of thinking about them rather than any particular comparative finger difficulty.Ĭhromatic accordions are not to be confused with diatonic accordions, such as melodeons and more types which are designed to play inside particular specified keys rather than cover any possible key modulations.
This is however over simplification and you will probably find some keys easier to play in than others. The Chromatic Accordion can play in any key, just like a piano accordion, theoretically with the same fingering and sequence of buttons whatever key you are in.
An Introduction To Playing Chromatic (Button) Accordion
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