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Cat No: TS110 How To Play Button Accordion - Volume 1 with instructional CD
Information about Volume 2 and Volume 3.
 How To Play Button Accordion by Henry Doktorski is unique, as every other button-method
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.”
There are button-accordions in practically every
key including C, G, D, F & Bb. Because the one-row button-accordion is a transposing
instrument, a player only needs to learn the fingering & notes for one scale: the C major scale.
In order to play in another key, you would need another instrument tuned to that desired key.
This greatly simplifies learning the instrument and allows the student to make rapid progress
early on. Note reading is also not necessary to learn how to play the button-box.
Indeed some
of the greatest button-accordionists play only by ear. Like great jazz performers, this in no way
detracts from their ability to create exciting and beautiful music.
Nonetheless, a method book needs some kind of music notation. 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. In 1965 the syllables do, re, mi, fa, sol, la and ti were immortalized in the hit movie
musical The Sound of Music. However, modern music notation is also presented along with
the solfege syllables for those students who want to learn it.
 How To Play Button-Accordion published by Santorella Publications will explain in detail
how to play the one-row Italian-style button-accordion. One row is perfectly suitable for
playing most popular and folk melodies. Even students who own two or three-row instruments
still need to learn by playing only one row.
Although the left hand is not always used by
button-box players, the left hand is taught in this method. It may be difficult to coordinate both
hands together, but with persistent and patient practice, success will most assuredly come.
Volume 1 Tutor Includes:
Taps • Assembly • Reveille • First Call • Down in the Valley • When the Saints Go
Marching In • Good Night, Ladies • My Darling Clementine • The Itsy Bitsy Spider •
Alouette • London Bridge • This Old Man • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star • Frere Jacque •
Pop Goes the Weasel • Row, Row, Row Your Boat • On Top of Old Smoky • Drink To Me
Only With Thine Eyes • Camptown Races • Come to the Sea (Vieni Sul Mar) • Du, Du Liegst
Mir Im Herzen • Las Chiapanecas • Minuet No. 1 • Minuet No. 2
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