This video is wonderfully understandable with your precise language and visual exemplification. I can clearly see the chromatic accordion's more efficient use of fingering and economy of movement. The notes are so close by to each other as opposed to running from one end of the piano keyboard to the other and the convoluted fingering needed to end up on the right note with the correct finger so the song can progress. I love the idea of changing key using the same pattern but just at a different location on the button board. My consideration to attempt to learn the chromatic accordion after many years of experience with piano accordion is what brought me here and now I'm inspired. Thank you Leon.

This is hugely helpful. As a piano accordion player I’ve always been told it’s impossible. I feel more hopeful now. You’re a great teacher.

Thank you Leon for this wonderful presentation. I've been telling people for years that my chromatic is easier to play than a piano accordion, but no one believes me. Your example of playing the scale in C, and then in Eb makes it obvious.

online resources for accordions are very limited, i really appreciate your in depth explanation

Wow! I really want to learn the accordion and was leaning toward the chromatic. This really has solidified for me and educated me on the layout. You explained it so well! It's been 4 years since you made this video but it has been so wonderful for me today! Thank you!!! :D

After 20 years of piano-accordion, now starting on chromatic. Very usefull and understandable video. Thanks!

I jumped to c sys about 7 years ago -- the best thing i ever did as far as accordion playing goes ( started at about 8 years old on piano key now 64 c is the way to go ) learn the pattern of c and a -- the rest are the same only need the starting note

The ability to play any instrument is to know the song in your head and then work the song out through practice until you have the song memorized of the notes. That is how I play without sight reading. Keep playing and before long you can play by ear.

Incredible explanation and great examples! I just started learning the piano accordion because I've been playing piano for decades and can transfer over my experience, but I can see how someone who hasn't yet been exposed to much piano would be able to build muscle-memory on a CBA with relative ease and be able to transpose to almost any key effortlessly. I might even be up to the challenge myself one day!

Very impressed by your simple to understand explanation ... thank you.

The traditional keyboard is perfect for an old concept of music (which really makes the most sense anyway), where the five additional semitones are for coloration, not for transposition. Also, the traditional keyboard offers the most amount of comfort and control when played in front of the performer, regardless of the key in which the music is written in. But the traditional keyboard is not perfect for transposing, because the human mind usually cannot master to change pitch on it without thinking about it (except for easy musical pieces). It would be good to have a "hardware transpose button/stop" on a fortepiano (as some old models have it and some church organs still have it today, and as digital instruments have it, of course). On a pedal harp playing different key signatures is most easy, since you simply set the pedals and then play just like you would be playing in a minor or c major, but it's getting problematic when there are modulations within the piece. In theory, the 6+6 two row symmetrical keyboard is the way to go, but it is much less ergonomic than the regular traditional keyboard. Whatever! I have to say that the best choice for the accordion is the three row system as shown here in this video (or, as I personally prefer, the b-griff system, but it doesn't really matter a lot if you use c-griff or b-griff). Why? Because unlike the instruments which are played in front of you, the accordion does not allow to play the same intervalls on the left side, so you cannot perform the melody lines of even simple classical music (with few exceptions) without altering it. On the chromatic button accordion you can reach two octaves and more with just one hand. This makes it possible, for example, to play most of classical guitar music (and there is a lot of it, beautiful pieces). So if you are into not too complex classical (/baroque/renaissance/...) music, you really should go with the chromatic buttons! If you want to go really deep into classical music, you have to switch to the melody bass or free bass system, but this is not really "accordion" playing anymore but rather a form of harmonium playing. And you should know that it is not always possible to perform complex classical music on the accordion as clean and fast as on the pianoforte or organ. To give you an example: Scarlatti, Sonata K. 141 on the freebass "accordion": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLefpM1m1Z-7ZJ8.html - and here on the pianoforte: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fc5pirtoubHKm30.html (or on the harpsichord: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9-pdbNk2Z3LaWQ.html). This is very typical, you will find it on other fast pieces such as Vivaldi, For Seasons/Winter. The Roland digital accordions allow you to set up the bass side as a melody bass!! Just as you can configer the discant/right side to b-griff or c-griff!

Wonderful! This was perplexing until explained. Well done! Subscribed.

Very interesting explanations. Loved the way you presented! Manu Cheers from Belo Horizonte - Brazil! Subscribed to your channel 😄👌

Precise and well-planned presentstion.

Loved this explanation, opened my eyes on things, thanks so much!

Perfect demonstration. Now I know how to choose. Also, I think it's more difficult to land on the flats on the piano accordion because the size difference and location.

Thank you sir I understood many things that ilI didn’t know before in a simple way

Very nicely done. Great explanation. 💕👍🎶

Thanks a lot , this is a good learning about how i can became my diatonic to chromatic.

Excellent presentation! Thanks.

15:52 Two octaves... Thank you!

Another good one Leon. Although I learned to play the piano accordion I've always been intrigued by the button keyboard but I have never been able to find an explanation for the fact that the key version is more popular here than the button version, and that's probably the only reason I didn't start on the buttons. I'm still going to learn the button free bass option on the Roland so I'll be able to put some of your advice to good use.

Would it be accurate to also suggest that another big advantage over the keyboard is that you can get many more keys within the same physical space. So less distance for the fingers of your hand to stretch to plus a smaller instrument.

Now I feel courageous enough to buy a button accordion.

man, i love your videos, I play the accordion and the although i love that mothe×%××@%@, it is so complex to me that it is -from time to time- overwelming, videos like this keep me going.

During the video you stated that you used the FR1X piano sound to play the accordion without the bellows. How do you do this? How do you get to the piano sound etc? Best videos on the internet for teaching!

Very informative video. So Maugain teaches use of the thumb?

Hello! I have a FR-1xb and I would like to know things: 1- Is it possible to change the octave of the free bass on the left hand to an octave lower just like you can do with the right hand? 2- How can I put the spare buttons on the bass notes so I can have marks on the Cs? They do come off right? Thanks in advance!

do these principles re the diagonal apply to both B and C Chromatic?

Isn't there a piano with button configuration? It seems to me that it would be easier to play than the standard key layout.

They are both chromatic though. Well the ones you are showing though. Because of course there are some diatonic accordions.thank you. It's nice to listen to you.I have both.

is the chromatic accordion with buttons heavier than the one with piano keys?

thanks,it helped.....

Very interesting

Thank you :)

The Chromatic Button Accoridon Buttons are usually black & white like Piano keys.

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What is the difference between C Sistem and B Sistem?

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10:12 now it makes sense!!

E flat is pretty ergonomic.

mais... mais ce livre est en français

I'm in favor of the piano accordion because it has the same layout on pianos and all small midi keyboards. Otherwise chromatic sounds superior.

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