The Counter Bass Minor Hack - Beginners Accordion Lesson

Using the Counter Bass Minor Hack, you can access minor chords on your accordion without having to make giant leaps. This beginners accordion lesson illustrates this secret accordion hack that allows you to keep your chords in a smaller pocket, giving you more control over the accordion bass buttons.

Counter Bass Minor Hack - Beginners Accordion Lesson

Will you be using the Counter Bass Minor Hack in your playing? Leave a comment bellow and let me know if this beginners accordion lesson was helpful!

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CHAPTERS
Intro - 0:00
Free Accordion Chord Chart - 0:53
Fundamental Bass Rows - 1:37
Counter Bass Minor Hack - 2:39
Chord Family Pocket - 6:19
Extending Small Accordions - 8:21
12 Bass Minor Hack - 9:53
Shout Out - 11:30
The Boompta Goompta - 12:08
Stradella Extensions - 13:40
Half & Full Diminished Hack - 14:49
Mystery of the Diminished Chord - 17:08
Conclusions - 19:00

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[adamcolbertmusic]

The boompta goompta technique is called stride playing. The wikipedia article will tell you that it's a jazz piano technique that arose from ragtime, but the exact same technique has been around since Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt if not before them. Listen to the middle part of Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, for example! Anyway, that's what it's called.

[stephanieblythe]

I think your minor 7 hack is great. I've been playing minor chords instead of minor 7s so there are two benefits for me.

[RandallDibble]

As a Pro bassist of 60yrs I refer the bassline YOU asked about as the 5th from below. example D\A the D being the root and A as the 5th from below.

[rheaclements]

Lol, I love how you say Boompta Goompta at 12:35, so matter-of-factly. Very good video. You’re a very good teacher

[rep.pamelapowershannley]

Hi! I love your videos and your accordion chord charts. I have a LaScala medium-sized accordion and have been looking for a smaller one. After much shopping around (including following you), I bought a Hohner Bravo like yours but red. It arrived today, and I absolutely love it! It fits my frame. I am 5'2" and 70 years old. I originally learned to play the accordion when I was 8 years old. After decades with no accordion, I got a medium-sized 1960s Hohner and relearned the accordion during the pandemic with your help and AccordionLove. Thank you!

[peterreece]

Alternating bass. I use alternating bass all the time on my box’s. My preferred box is the 5 row continental chromatic accordion.

[Bruingebak]

Hi Denny, my first time on your channel. Your practical approach resonates with me because I'm also a self-taught Afro-jazz accordionist from Cape Town. Your practical method captured my attention and allowed me to watch the entire 22-minute video. Thanks a mil. You're a great teacher.

[jonstein]

Lovely video - you have a great teaching manner! I call the stride left hand pattern ‘oomcha’ - and so does my accordion student! Keep up the good work 🎶😃

[shoshoroquotes]

This video is pureGold ! Thanks bruh !

[abigailpauley]

Thanks for the shout out and the hack! Excited to try it 😁

[enjaycable]

Love the counter bass row 7 hack, it solve the 48 bass 12x4 no 7 row challenge, genius!

[tubatim]

Great lesson. Love the way you demonstrate with a chart (on the left side of page) pointing out exactly which buttons you are referring to. Thanks. Have been following Ronan Segal for many years. Looking forward to following you as well.

[hennesurft]

Great explanation, thx! I do play since years and never heard about this, not even by my teachers.

[zvljrie]

Great explanation. I have never developed more than a basic use of the bases and counterbases and thid video opened my eyes to the hack that I think can learn to use. thanks.

[michaelgage]

Thanks Denny, this is exciting and definitely will give it a try. Thanks for all you do ! 🪗 - Michael in Texas 🤠

[Eliyahillel]

Thanks, that's a great tip, I've been playing and learning by myself for a couple years and didn't know any easy method for minor7 cords...

[mitchellwhite]

Hey Denny! Great video. The reason Stradella dominant and diminished 7th is to allow for some specific versatility in making other harmonic chords. Let's say you want an augmented 7th. You can get that with a dominant 7th and the proper additional note in either the right hand, or via the counterbass row (as you do with the minor hack). Major 7ths work using one major chord and a minor chord button together. For instance, CMaj7 can be formed using the CM button paired with the Em button. A bit of a stretch, but if you "read" those notes, you find that you have C, E, G, & B. Voila! Major 7th. Playing around with two-button combos finds lots of interesting chord combos, as in the Chord Extensions book (and maybe a few new ones!). P.S. Thanks for the Circle of Fifths Pin....

[thebaconmanthony]

I think it is called an Alternating Bass Pattern at 12:17

[stevenpalm]

I just stumbled across this about two weeks ago quite by accident. LOL I actually couldn't believe it when I realized it, I thought surely it couldn't be so simple and work so well or I would have heard about it. Nope. ;) It can make some passages much much easier. ;) There is one song I was working with that was Am F G C and this hack makes it so simple.