CHORD
MELODY METHOD
FOR ACCORDION
Accordion Music Book with CD
The Chord Melody Method for Accordion is a breakthrough course that will teach you to quickly learn all of the chords used in today's music and to apply their harmonic applications professionally to any lead sheet. Imagine possessing the ability to develop and compose a professional-sounding arrangement on the spot while improvising confidently as needed! The average dedicated student will become proficient in 6 to 12 months and will experience a dramatic improvement in all areas of musicianship
- Foreword
- Why We Must Study Harmony
- Triads
- First Lead Sheet Etude
- C Major and A Minor Etudes
- F Major, Bb Major and D Minor Etudes
- Song of the Islands
- Song of the Volga Boatmen
- Augmented Triads with Etudes
- Diminished Chords
- Bye Bye Blues
- Lies
- Melody of Love
- Drifting and Dreaming
- Linger Awhile
- Hindustan
- The Major and Minor 6th Four Part Chords
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- The Minor 7th Chord with Etudes
- Peg O' My Heart with Bass Clef
- Swanee with Bass Clef
- The Major 7th Chord with Etudes
- More Dominant 9th Chord Practice
- Raised and Flatted Ninths
- Dominant 11th, Augmented 11th Chords and Tri-Tone Subs
- Open Position Chords with Etudes
- Passing Chords
PRACTICE SONGS WITH EXTENSIVE EXPLANATIONS AND EXAMPLES
- You Made Me Love You
- April Showers
- What A Friend
- Stumbling
- Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
- Fascination
- Chinatown
- Ja-Da
- After You've Gone
- Do It Again
- My Melancholy Baby
- I'm Just Wild About Harry
- Indian Summer
- Chord Study and Review
- I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
- Georgia
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- 'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
- The Japanese Sandman
- Bill Bailey
- Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me)
- Margie
- Avalon
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Indiana
- Reharmonized Indiana
- Poor Butterfly
