Confess that "style" is out of the air there, though crossing rows is what is taught there, and they even have to do scales.
It's horses for courses - I recall friends in Paris astonished at the ryhthm and drive
I'd just delivered on a couple of polkas, played on the row "English style", but the waltz is the paradym in France, and is danced smoothly, they just sort of spin.
As endlessly discussed here the best spot is to be able to do both styles, at will as appropriate to the music in play and any dancers about. And indeed to mix it up a bit. Is there a better word? I suspect had I written "English melodeon style" there would have been no ripples in the lexographic ether, and indeed that sort of phrase is used pretty freely in folk guitar circles
Thanks for the links Gary. For the purposes of this thread I was more getting at what to do when you find yourself in a Bb session with a DGaccs or GCaccs in your hand.
