Learn Blues Accordion

Download or read book Learn Blues Accordion written by David DiGiuseppe and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Palmer-Hughes Accordion Course, Book 1 written by Willard A. Palmer and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive method of music instruction enables the beginner to progress to an advanced stage of technical skill.

Download or read book The Mighty Accordion: written by David DiGiuseppe and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Chord Melody Method for Accordion written by Gary Dahl and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chord Melody Method for Accordion is a breakthrough course that will teach you to quickly learn all of the chords used in today's music and to apply their harmonic applications professionally to any lead sheet. Imagine possessing the ability to develop and compose a professional-sounding arrangement on the spot while improvising confidently as needed! the average dedicated student will become proficient in 6 to 12 months and will experience a dramatic improvement in all areas of musicianship.

Download or read book Mel Bay's Master Accordion Scale Book written by Gary Dahl and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been designed to develop the professional or recreational accordionist further toward advanced musicianship. Why do we practice scales? The great jazz accordionist, Art Van Damme, when asked what he practiced, replied, "Only the fundamentals!" The fundamental classical and jazz scales withexplanations are presented here in a clear, concise format. For best results usethis book with or after the Chord Melody Method for Accordion.

Download or read book Accordion Dreams written by Blair Kilpatrick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Tangos for Accordion written by David DiGiuseppe and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the impoverished barrios of Buenos Aires during the late 19th Century, the tango has become one of the most important music and dance forms of our time. Tangos for Accordion presents a distinctive collection of predominantly Argentinian tangos arranged for solo piano accordion. The book’s introduction includes a brief history of the tango and an explanation of tango rhythms. Preparatory exercises explore the differences between various rhythms (habanera, marcato, etc) and how to perform them on the accordion. Includes many of the best-known tangos, such as La Cumparsita, Caminito, El Choclo, El Marne, Catamarca, La Paloma, and many more. Includes chords symbols for accompanying instruments. For intermediate to advanced players.