How Do You Read Accordion Sheet Music?
Reading accordion music requires a good overall understanding of musical notation. Accordion sheet music is a more specialized form of sheet music than more mainstream musical instruments like trumpet or clarinet. The various styles of accordions share the same basic sheet music except for the more exotic varieties of accordion which have instrument-specific notations. Study the musical notations of instrumental sheet music. Accordion sheet music is written on a standard musical staff with the same standard note structure as piano music. Learn the chromatic scale. Many accordions are of the diatonic button style and the buttons on the melody side of the keyboard are arranged according to to the chromatic scale. Move up the chord buttons in fifths, in ascending order, and back down again in fourths, in descending order. The chord buttons let an accordionist play chords while playing both the bass line and the treble line. The chords are most often written in bold print on accordion musi
