Play Accordion!: 50 Easy Songs for Beginners

Lena Eckhoff, Thomas Balinger Play Accordion! 50 Easy Songs for Beginners

Play your favorite songs on your accordion now! 50 famous song classics, arranged for easy piano accordion (32-120 button models). Written for the beginning player, this book features large, easy-to-read notation and a special accordion tablature: simple symbols telling you what to play with your left hand (thus saving the trouble of having to read two stave systems at the same time). Easy arrangements and special sections on playing position, playing technique, practicing tips and a button overview for the most common accordion models make playing as easy as possible. Also included: A short introduction to the basics of reading music.

Songs:

1. Abide with me 2. Amazing grace 3. Auld lang syne 4. Aura Lee 5. Away in a manger 6. Baa, baa, black sheep 7. Banks of Sacramento 8. Brahms’ lullaby 9. Buffalo gals 10. Cindy 11. Clementine 12. Colorado trail 13. Cotton-eyed Joe 14. Down by the station 15. Good night, ladies 16. Go, tell it to the mountain 17. Hickory, dickory dock 18. In the bleak midwinter 19. Jingle bells 20. Jolly good fellow 21. Jolly old Saint Nicholas 22. Kum ba yah 23. Lavender’s blue 24. London Bridge is falling down 25. Mary had a little lamb 26. Michael, row the boat ashore 27. Morning has broken 28. My Bonnie lies over the ocean 29. Oh! Susanna 30. Old MacDonald 31. One elephant went out to play 32. On top of Old Smokey 33. Over the river and through the woods 34. Pop! Goes the weasel 35. Row, row, row your boat 36. Sailor on the deep blue sea 37. Scarborough Fair 38. Silent night 39. Skip to my Lou 40. Still, still, still 41. The bear went over the mountain 42. The house of the “Rising Sun” 43. The John B. sails 44. Tom Dooley 45. Twinkle, twinkle, little star 46. Up on the housetop 47. We wish you a Merry Christmas 48. What shall we do with the drunken sailor 49. When the saints go marchin’ in 50. Yankee Doodle