Getting Into Accordion


Book Description

This book is designed for the person who is returning to the accordion after a few idle years and needs a crash review. Included with the book to facilitate the review process is an instructional recording by the author! This effective, exceptional teaching aid will motivate and guide the review process very quickly. the minimum size instrument for this breakthrough teaching book is an 80 bass piano accordion. No lyrics included.




Teach Yourself to Play Accordion


Book Description

Filled with fun musical examples in a variety of styles, this book is perfect for absolute beginners and for experienced players who need a review! Teaches technique for both right and left hand, and features clear, easy-to-understand lessons and music theory in standard notation. Complete button chart included.




Complete Accordion Method


Book Description

(Accordion). The English edition of this accordion method penned by father/son authors Lucien & Richard Galliano includes fingering indications for both piano and button accordions, plus online audio demo tracks for download or streaming. The book features full-color illustrations by Jean-Noel Rochut, a preface and a brief history of the accordion in addition to instrumental instruction.




Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course, Book 1


Book Description

This comprehensive method of music instruction enables the beginner to progress to an advanced stage of technical skill.




You Can Teach Yourself Accordion


Book Description

A comprehensive method written especially for serious students learning the accordion without access to formal music lessons. Seasoned music educator and performer Neil Griffin guides the student through music reading fundamentals, correct posture and hand position, use of the bellows, bass buttons, keyboard, and more. Music theory concepts are introduced as required by the generous selection of carefully graded exercises and pieces. Although this book covers concepts that apply to the 120-bass accordion, it only uses 54 buttons (covering 9 rows in keys). Illustrated with diagrams and photographs.




Learn Blues Accordion


Book Description

Learn Blues Accordion is a unique method book that includes 34 blues compositions and numerous exercises that will help you master the blues. The exercises increase in difficulty and introduce concepts and techniques thatspecifically target both hands. Explore blues scales, chord progressions and learn common blues techniques such as grace notes, slides, pedal points, double stops and tremolos. Left hand accompanying rhythmic styles are taught and used throughout the material, including boogie-woogie, the blues shuffle, New Orleansand walking bass lines. This book also features exercises on comping chords in common blues keys using various rhythmic patterns. Accompanying audio is recorded in stereo format, separating the left and right hands. The recordings are available online with included access




Unfolding Practice


Book Description

Unfolding Practice: Reflections on Learning and Teaching is a conversation between two artist-educators. Flowing across five chapters, the double sided accordion book has been curated from ten years of recorded conversations, field notes, planning, sketches, reflection, and teaching. The front of the book weaves text, illustration, cutouts, and screen prints, journeying through artistic process and educational practice. The back of the book is a guide, expanding on the practice of using accordion books as a tool for capturing, visualizing, and building upon reflective thinking. The brown paper alludes to the craft paper that is ubiquitous in schools and captures process more than the preciousness of a final product.




First 50 Songs You Should Play on the Accordion


Book Description

(Accordion). If you're new to the accordion, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides 50 simplified arrangements of popular standards, folk songs and showtunes that accordion players like to play, including: All of Me * Beer Barrel Polka * Carnival of Venice * Edelweiss * Hava Nagila (Let's Be Happy) * Hernando's Hideaway * Jambalaya (On the Bayou) * Lady of Spain * Moon River * 'O Sole Mio * Sentimental Journey * Somewhere, My Love * That's Amore (That's Love) * Under Paris Skies * and more.




The Mighty Accordion:


Book Description

The Mighty Accordion is a truly unique and much-needed guide to playing the bass side of the accordion. A comprehensive collection of progressive exercises guide the student in learning and mastering bass/chord patterns.For the beginner, the first few chapters assume little or no knowledge of the instrument and teach how to play simple accompaniment patterns.For the intermediate player, numerous exercises using the major, minor, seventh and diminished chords are included to develop skill in executing various bass/chord accompaniment patterns.For the advanced player, latter chapters present exercises on chord combinations needed to play sixth, minor seventh, major seventh, ninth and other advanced chords.Throughout the book, explanations are offered on the workings of the instrument and relevant music theory. Play along with a 2-CD companion set featuring many of the book's exercises played at both a slow and moderate tempo.A much-needed and complete guide to playing the bass side of the accordionA comprehensive collection of progressive exercises for learning bass/chord patterns on the accordionBeginner students learn simple accompaniment patterns and use of the major, minor and seventh chordsAdvanced students learn how to play sixth, minor and major sevenths and ninth chords, and other advance techniquesCompanion CDs feature many of the book's exercises




Accordion Dreams


Book Description

By age thirty-nine, Blair Kilpatrick had settled into life as a practicing psychologist, wife, and mother. Then a chance encounter in New Orleans turned her world upside down. She returned home to Chicago with unlikely new passions for Cajun music and its defining instrument, the accordion. Captivated by recurring dreams of playing the Cajun accordion, she set out to master it. Yet she was not a musician, was too self-conscious to dance, and didn't even sing in the shower. Kilpatrick's obsession took her from Chicago's Cajun dance scene to a folk music camp in West Virginia, back and forth to south Louisiana, and even to a Cajun festival in France. An unexpected family move brought her to the San Francisco Bay Area, home to the largest Cajun-zydeco music scene outside the Gulf Coast. There she became a prot--and--eacute;g--and--eacute; of renowned accordionist Danny Poullard, a Louisiana-born Creole and the guiding spirit of the local Louisiana French music community. Engaging, uplifting, and illuminating a unique patch of the American cultural landscape, Accordion Dreams is Kilpatrick's account of the possibility of passion, risk-taking, and change--at any age. Blair Kilpatrick has an independent practice in psychotherapy in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also performs and records with Sauce Piquante, a traditional Cajun-Creole band she founded in the late 1990s. Learn more at www.blairkilpatrick.com