Learn Blues Accordion

A Complete Course for the Beginner-Now even beginners can strap on a squeezebox and start rockin'! This exciting new course is not just for accordion novices though. Experienced keyboard players will also want to stretch out into the rich sound this ever-popular instrument produces. Keyboardist and producer Aaron ?Professor Louie? Hurwitz starts at the top teaching you how to put the accordion on and hold it correctly. He then shows through detailed drills and exercises how the buttons are used to play the bass lines scales and chords for accompanying a keyboard melody. Before long you'll be vamping on 12-bar progressions riffing with right hand pentatonic blues scales playing chord inversions andimprovising blues and rock songs. You'll learn the shuffle rhythm the 'Fats Domino rock'n'roll stroll' and other great grooves along with the bellows shake wobble and other special accordion techniques. This fabulous lesson is filled with invaluable information and great fun as you rock out right along with Louie and his band! Note: Some elementary knowledge of the keyboard is recommended. Professor Louie plays a 96-button accordion in this DVD but the lessons apply to all accordionists.

Akkordeon spielen - mein schönstes Hobby is a practical method that aims at young people and adults who wish to get to know the whole multifaceted world of accordion music. Suitable for beginners and false beginners.After Vol. 1 (ED 20951) and Vol. 2 (ED 20952) of the method, Schott now publishes tune book #1 with many beautiful songs and pieces for lessons, ensemble playing at home or auditions. The level of difficulty of the pieces has been adjusted to the progression of the volumes of the method. Many songs come with an accompanying part for the teacher or other accordion players. The enclosed CD serves as an acoustic learning aid and shall motivate the student to practise and play. / 1 A 3 Accordéons

This book is the ideal primer for anyone wishing to participate in an 'Irish session'. This musical gathering is apparently quite different than a blues jazz or bluegrass jam session in that it is customary at Irish sessions toplay in tight unison with the other musicians adapting appropriate tempos rhythms and ornaments in an attempt to fit in with the 'groove'. The 'Irish Session Tune Book' features 300 reels hornpipes polkas slides andslip-jigs written without chord symbols for the melody instruments commonly played in Irish Sessions. The author shares a wealth of melodies collected over the past 10 years the majority learned by ear at Irish sessions: fiddle accordion tinwhistle tenor banjo mandolin bouzouki etc. Authentic ornamentation is suggested for each tune with the admonition that ornamentation may vary from region to region and chorus to chorus.