Dwight,

Do you have any kind of keyboard, or maybe an acoustic guitar? It greatly simplifies figuring out the key and chord progression of a song if you have an instrument that can play all keys and all chords (and notes).

I have accordions in lots of different keys, but it is slow and clumsy to identify the key by switching accordions around until I find the right one. And that is if I even have the right one. (For example, I hear more and more songs recently that are played on a G single row, often in the key of D. But I don't have a G box.) With my acoustic guitar or keyboard, I can find the key and chord progression in seconds.

-David

Only thing I have would be my fiddle, but I'm only used to playing 1, 4, and 5 on that. So, stuff off the beaten path will be more difficult.

I think he's playing this in Bb/F, based on some opening notes that didn't have the full band behind him.

So, that's F/Bb/Eb accordion, second position middle row, primarily.

I'm a limited musician with a limited ear.

Dwight, you have an FR-18.
Just keep changing the key until it is right.
It's not that many buttons to push

I'm not yet used to all the different patterns for getting notes out on the triple row. There's more options than a single row and I'm not yet where I can hear positions when someone is playing a triple row, unlike on a single row (sometimes).

i think we used to do that in C on the F row [2nd position]

but i have never heard chubby;s version

it was just where the guitarist wanted to sing it, or it was a compromise between his voice and available accordion keys i had at the time, and his guitar solos

wle