Little Fly

 27Sep2021 What does that title mean anyway? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1aJ6HixSe0 Circle of Fifths and Harmonic shifts and Moschino: On Stradella, System is based on Circle of Fifths.  On Free-Bass, system is typically Chromatic.. like in C-System shown below Moschino LH button arrangement can do 2 things at once: a) Circle of Fifths progression is diagonally connected to neighbor b) Opposite diagonal / near vertical is chromatic ascending/descending.   Both are available!  Relative minor key is also available easily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzgDTocKyc4 Very nice!

  Background: 2020 to present. Ok.  Here is my story.  It is late 2021 and the Covid-19 Pandemic has been a part of our lives for a long while. I've always been interested in learning oddball instruments, and accordion has stuck to me.   I've been playing the piano most of my life, and I plink out tolerable Jazz comping.  But the piano it is difficult to bring anywhere.  Piano accordions are a natural for a portable instrument.  They are also a busking natural, and busking is on my bucket list.  Really. So, several years back (at least a decade) I inherited my fathers old accordion (Stradella)  which is in relatively average repair.  After fooling a bit, I realized that the frustration that I had was in the Stradella system (More on this later, but Stradella is based on the Circle-of-Fifths which presents common chord progressions rather easily but really plays only Major-Minor-Dom7-Dim chords.  At that early phase, I wondered ...