"Beginners also usually don't know that many chords, so an Am7 or D9 or the like is a complete mystery.

If you see a chord like that, that you don't know, try substituting the 'plain' chord instead, e.g. Am instead of Am7, just for the purpose of learning the song. It won't sound exactly the same, but it will usually do to get you started."


Well, Piano Accordions don't have buttons for all those advanced chords guitarists love.... some of them CAN be fudged with combinations of multiple chord buttons, but that takes ages of training and memory.... so we often fake the thing by using the basic Major or Minor chord.

You have no choice to do other than that with a 'small box' that doesn't have all the normal (6) rows anyway! And the secret to that trick is that those 'special' notes that give the 'feel' of those non-basic chords are usually being played on the keyboard anyway... oh, and the 'chord buttons' come with ONLY ONE FIXED 'inversion position' ...





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"Foolstroupe - thanks, but honestly, it was practice, practice, practice. "

Well, that's how all of us 'classically trained musos' learnt it - so does that mean the others, just don't practice enough?



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