The Counter Bass Minor Hack - Beginners Accordion Lesson 

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Very interesting, thanks for sharing this Adam! 😊

Thank you Adam, I never knew what it was called either!

Hahaha glad you got a kick out of my antics 🙃 happy to hear you enjoyed the tutorial!Appreciate your support Rhea ♥️

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!

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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!

Of course, so perfect that you got that accordion when you did! ☺️

Aw I’m so glad to hear that :) I’m happy to hear you enjoyed it!

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! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PVd_PwJJFR8.htmlsi=NK3gzFldKcfRItlz

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! 🙌❤☺

There's always room for more here in the accordion community my friend! 🤗

Hey Tim, glad you enjoyed it brother!! And thank you so much for becoming a Patreon member! ♥️ really appreciate the support

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.

That makes sense, haha thank you!

@@SqueezeandThanks you're welcome

In brazil I lernead it as triangle or triangulation.

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Im so glad it’s been helpful for ya!! 😊🪗♥️

So glad it’s helped, my friend! 😊🪗♥️

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 :)

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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!! 🙂

You’re very welcome Juha, glad they’re coming in handy!

Hey Michael, thanks for saying that brother! Much love and greetings from Buffalo, NY!! 🙂

You're welcome, glad you found it helpful! :)

Thanks for tuning in Rachel 🙌 😊

It's an honor to be up there with Ronen haha thank you so much!! :) much love my friend!!

I appreciate that! I will keep that in mind for a future video, that would probably be helpful for people 😊

You’re very welcome my friend!! :)

Thanks for stopping by and checking it out man :)

Aw good, glad to hear it, I hope it comes in handy for ya! :)

You’re very welcome, hope it’s helps!! 😊

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Thanks Will!! :)

You’re very welcome Sagar, glad you found it helpful my friend ♥️

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 ❤

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

Thanks so much my dude, this was a fun one to put together! :)

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!

Thanks brother, loved that cover of yours you let me use, favorite accordion tune I’ve heard in a longggg time! 🙌🙌🙌

Thank you so much, glad to hear you found some use for this! :)

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

Ah nice, that makes sense in the situation of having the bass player cover it… thanks for sharing that brother!!

Glad you found it useful! I figured this out early on and have never looked back :)

Hey there Hari! Glad to hear this helped :) did you wind up getting the 40 bass? Which row is that missing, the diminished row?

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!

What a compliment to try and live up to 😅 haha glad this helped ya Nikita!!

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!

You're welcome Brian, happy to hear that!

Glad you enjoyed the video Ricardo, hope it’s helpful :)

So glad you enjoyed it Steven!! Hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving brother ♥️

@@SqueezeandThanks Ditto-thank YOU!

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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

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 ♥️

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!

Haha thanks for dropping by Mike! 🙌 hope you dig the channel homie, appreciate you saying what’s up 🤝😊🎶

The Bb7 is within the standard range of a 48, it’s two rows down from the C

You’re welcome George! 😊🙏💯

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!!

You’re welcome! 😊 I have plenty of videos on this channel if you surf around a bit, hope you enjoy them!

Thanks!! I wish there was software for that… hours and hours of tedious editing 😂

You can find that on Evan’s instagram, his @ handle is tagged in the video :)

Thank you so much!

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@@auntkalei5001 sure thing, what exactly can I help clarify? Feel free to shoot me an email too if you’d like, squeezeandthanks@gmail.com

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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Thank u I love u all great players

Haha pretty much 😂

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Haha oh man, that’s a long time without knowing this little trick!

@@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! 😊