Songs on the accordion
Every song in the catalogue, and a reminder that a keyboard can be chromatic and still run out of room.
What this instrument has got
33 notes, B2 to G5 - a reach of 32 semitones, built from 12 pitch letters: B C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A#. Everything below follows from that row.
- B2
- C3
- C#3
- D3
- D#3
- E3
- F3
- F#3
- G3
- G#3
- A3
- A#3
- B3
- C4
- C#4
- D4
- D#4
- E4
- F4
- F#4
- G4
- G#4
- A4
- A#4
- B4
- C5
- C#5
- D5
- D#5
- E5
- F5
- F#5
- G5
Why 100, and not 100
The right-hand keyboard is chromatic, so no note is forbidden - but it is only B2 to G5, a little under three octaves. That is the compass the sampled instrument actually has, and the lesson does not pretend otherwise.
So most songs sit where they are written, a sixth of them drop an octave to get under the ceiling, and a few have to change key altogether - the tune is wider than the box, and the only way in is sideways.
Where the tunes sit
Of the 100 it plays, 80 are taught at written pitch , 17 move a whole octave - same note names, different register , and 3 change key altogether, which is what a player does when they pick up an instrument tuned to something other than C .
Easy 47
- Mary Had a Little Lamb at written pitch
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star at written pitch
- Ode to Joy at written pitch
- Jingle Bells at written pitch
- Happy Birthday to You at written pitch
- Amazing Grace at written pitch
- Auld Lang Syne at written pitch
- Lullaby at written pitch
- Silent Night at written pitch
- Joy to the World at written pitch
- The First Noel at written pitch
- O Come, All Ye Faithful at written pitch
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing at written pitch
- Good King Wenceslas at written pitch
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas at written pitch
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat at written pitch
- Pop Goes the Weasel at written pitch
- Au clair de la lune at written pitch
- For He's a Jolly Good Fellow at written pitch
- Hot Cross Buns at written pitch
- Itsy Bitsy Spider at written pitch
- When the Saints Go Marching In at written pitch
- Danny Boy at written pitch
- Scarborough Fair at written pitch
- Loch Lomond at written pitch
- The Wild Rover at written pitch
- The Parting Glass at written pitch
- The Star of the County Down at written pitch
- She Moved Through the Fair at written pitch
- Träumerei down 1 octave
- Home, Sweet Home at written pitch
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen down 2 semitones
- Away in a Manger at written pitch
- O Little Town of Bethlehem at written pitch
- Kagome Kagome at written pitch
- Alle meine Entchen at written pitch
- Red River Valley at written pitch
- Arirang at written pitch
- The Skye Boat Song at written pitch
- Symphony No. 5 at written pitch
- Eine kleine Nachtmusik down 1 octave
- Sonata facile down 1 octave
- Ave verum corpus at written pitch
- Andante grazioso at written pitch
- Sheep May Safely Graze at written pitch
- Heidenröslein at written pitch
- Emperor's Hymn at written pitch
Medium 27
- The Holly and the Ivy at written pitch
- Deck the Halls at written pitch
- Humpty Dumpty at written pitch
- London Bridge Is Falling Down at written pitch
- Lightly Row at written pitch
- Alouette down 1 octave
- My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean at written pitch
- Down by the Salley Gardens at written pitch
- The Minstrel Boy at written pitch
- The Last Rose of Summer at written pitch
- Soldier's Joy at written pitch
- Angels We Have Heard on High down 2 semitones
- We Three Kings at written pitch
- Korobeiniki down 1 octave
- Tōryanse at written pitch
- Sur le pont d'Avignon at written pitch
- Santa Lucia down 1 octave
- Mo Li Hua at written pitch
- Kangding Love Song at written pitch
- Song Bie at written pitch
- Greensleeves at written pitch
- Ye Banks and Braes down 1 octave
- Rondo alla Turca down 1 octave
- Menuett in E flat at written pitch
- Moonlight Sonata at written pitch
- Minuet in G at written pitch
- Gymnopédie No. 1 down 1 octave
Hard 26
- Whiskey in the Jar at written pitch
- The Water Is Wide at written pitch
- Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms at written pitch
- The Ash Grove down 1 octave
- The Irish Washerwoman down 1 octave
- John Ryan's Polka at written pitch
- Mairi's Wedding down 1 octave
- Bist du bei mir at written pitch
- Prelude Op. 28 No. 7 down 1 octave
- Musette in D down 2 semitones
- Old French Song at written pitch
- Thaxted at written pitch
- La Marseillaise down 1 octave
- Waltzing Matilda at written pitch
- La Cucaracha at written pitch
- Bella ciao at written pitch
- Battle Hymn of the Republic at written pitch
- À la claire fontaine at written pitch
- Für Elise down 1 octave
- Turkish March at written pitch
- Menuetto in G at written pitch
- Pathétique Adagio at written pitch
- Die Forelle at written pitch
- Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 down 1 octave
- In the Hall of the Mountain King up 1 octave
- March of the Wooden Soldiers at written pitch
The same catalogue, other instruments
One song list, nine instruments, and every one of them meets it differently.