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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #40 on: February 09, 2018, 02:31:03 PM »

i'm not going to sugar coat it :P how much for your melodeon? perhaps another question for the Buy/Sale threads.

will you still keep your collection? ;)
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #41 on: February 09, 2018, 02:39:19 PM »

Ebor, I have no idea if I have done something different, I just clicked on the squeezy emoji .

Teehee re Erica......and I wouldn't say I have a collection compared to others here, more like a small shopping list!

Melodeon Mojo sounds good eh! I like it.
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #42 on: February 09, 2018, 02:54:39 PM »

still pushing and pulling.

push pull push pull push pull pull push
g       a     b     c      d     e     f#   g

with the arm movements it becomes air melodeon ;D
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #43 on: February 10, 2018, 04:05:48 PM »

I've joined this topic late but I would like to say, I have had the same experience and I did give up for a few years then came back to it. My problem was I reached a sort of plateau, it seemed to me no matter how much I practiced I did not seem to improve so the box was packed away. At the time I was going to sessions regularly and listening to Andy Cutting and Squeezy John and the like and continued to listen but not play, so I still had a liking for the music. So now fast forward to a couple of years ago when I got the box out again practiced up a little and went back to my local-ish session. What fun I didn't realised what I had been missing out on all that time. So my advice would be.
Take a little time out if you need to
Remember, You are you so get comfortable with yourself and play in your style. Don't worry about trying to be as good as the pro's
Play the tunes the way you want to and don't bother with learning tunes you don't like. Just because it's a session standard doesn't mean it's a good tune.
Try to practice a little every day. I think half an hour to an hour a day is better than masses at the weekend and nothing during the week.
Be critical of yourself but remember, strive for excellence not perfection. There is no such thing as perfection.
Above all HAVE FUN.
Sorry if I'm off topic a bit as I have not read the whole thread here, but I do know feeling of "I don't seem to be making any progress"
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #44 on: February 17, 2018, 05:47:18 AM »

I've just joined a flute choir. I was a bit taken aback when the leader said "oh, well if you've played that before you won't want to do it again". Well, yes I will actually because I like it and enjoy playing it. I don't want to "conquer and move on". It sort of (sorry) struck a chord with this thread and does seem to be an approach to music some have. And that's fine - it's just not mine.
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #45 on: February 17, 2018, 09:49:47 PM »

  High Tiny. I've got a bit of a puzzle here, perhaps you can help. I have tried most of the approx. 35 melodeons in this house and friends boxes. And I find that the majority don't have a g on the push 3rd button, I have found, Eb. F. D. C. and A. Do you think I've got this tuning thing wrong, Or is there some other reason other than the Sauvignon Blank  again. (:) Dion
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #46 on: February 18, 2018, 11:31:12 AM »

You obviously live in an area where boxes tuned in Bb/Eb, C/F, A/D are common. In England D/G is the most popular tuning and in France G/C is the most popular, either of these would have a push G on the third button of a two row 19 or 21 button box.

Edited to add: There are also a lot of boxes around that are fourth button start . . .
« Last Edit: February 18, 2018, 11:33:57 AM by Pete Dunk »
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #47 on: February 19, 2018, 03:40:46 PM »

  Oh dear, sorry about this, it was only supposed to be a gentle leg pull for Tiny. But I do know that D/G is the only keys being played in England, all because one man decided to order those keys from Hohner, which he thought would suit fiddle players best. Completely ignoring the old players who usually played in C. So now we are stuck with the awful high squeaky G row. Some places it is true use G/C in France, in fact I've just changed a Erica for a friend for French stuff. We sometimes do have just C/F sessions over here in the Welsh Borders, always fun when you catch out the guitar, banjo and other instrument players who have only learned G/D because they thought that they only need to learn to play in those keys. Tiny. I might pull your leg but I would not really have smacked them [well not very hard anyway, Dion :-[ :|glug
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #48 on: February 19, 2018, 04:57:58 PM »

(Heresy Section) Which is why I enjoy playing Bear Dance (Am) followed by Horse's Brawl (G/Gm). It soon sorts out the melodeon players - apart from the two who come regularly and sit by me. I am just learning the combo on the box myself and it's a b*gger deciding which one to use. Mind, George would have no problem!
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #49 on: February 20, 2018, 06:19:57 PM »

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We sometimes do have just C/F sessions over here in the Welsh Borders,

I would be very interested in those....where are they and when? such a lovely mellow sound.
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #50 on: February 20, 2018, 06:22:04 PM »

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followed by Horse's Brawl (G/Gm)

Yes a lovely change of key ....
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #51 on: February 20, 2018, 08:26:12 PM »

  But I do know that D/G is the only keys being played in England,.

Absolutely NOT true; there are lots of players of C/F, G/C and Bb/Eb boxes in England, and A/D is not unknown. Not to mention the B/C brigade, the C one-rowers.  OK, D/G, for whatever historical reasons,may be the most common, but it's certainly not by any means the ONLY combination.
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #52 on: February 20, 2018, 08:53:53 PM »

  But I do know that D/G is the only keys being played in England,.

Absolutely NOT true; there are lots of players of C/F, G/C and Bb/Eb boxes in England, and A/D is not unknown. Not to mention the B/C brigade, the C one-rowers.  OK, D/G, for whatever historical reasons,may be the most common, but it's certainly not by any means the ONLY combination.

 ;D the singer/ guitarist in our band prefers the Bb/Eb and C/F boxes to sing to, they suit the pitch of his voice and have a resonance that can make people weep ( or that could just be the awful standard of my playing  :o ..... driving people to tears... :|||: ;D)
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #53 on: February 21, 2018, 01:23:09 PM »

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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #54 on: August 25, 2020, 08:40:11 PM »

So now slowly coming out of lockdown I have been  re reading this thread. I have had all the time I needed but still not been practising and playing like I should . Why is it so difficult I wonder.  I have met twice with some friends to play outside in a garden but now its personal motivation that is low, which is different from the original post. However I am still playing and when I pick up my box, after a 20 minute play,  I feel such good emotion and  good energy.  (:)  plod on then  :||:
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #55 on: August 25, 2020, 09:44:54 PM »

That sounds good!
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #56 on: August 25, 2020, 10:14:37 PM »

So now slowly coming out of lockdown I have been  re reading this thread. I have had all the time I needed but still not been practising and playing like I should . Why is it so difficult I wonder.  I have met twice with some friends to play outside in a garden but now its personal motivation that is low, which is different from the original post. However I am still playing and when I pick up my box, after a 20 minute play,  I feel such good emotion and  good energy.  (:)  plod on then  :||:

I've been much the same for a lot of lockdown.  Lots of projects I could have made huge progress on, that went zooming past while tinkering the days away.  I did make myself sit down and start bashing away again at the piano a while back, and I've found routine is thing that makes most of my practice happen.

For a lot of us though, once we've gotten over the "wow I can make this cool sound" phase, we play music for and with other people, and if they're not around, there's little motivation to do so. 
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #57 on: August 25, 2020, 10:52:37 PM »

Much the same, lockdown made playing quite depressing for me - no audience reaction, no dancers, no other band members...  I've just got back from a private session at the pub, outdoors in an open marquee wit the storm whipping through.  It was magic to sit around and play with friends, all of us a bit rusty but relaxed and happy to have a few beers and play some favourite tunes and a few to trip ourselves up.  It's certainly now putting the spell checker to the test!

I guess the moral is that absinthe makes the heart...  Even our squire, who would under normal circumstances have been playing the festival circuit with his ceilidh band, got the same kick out of a session after months of solitude.  His comment about "folk hits of the nineties" struck a chord - we just wanted to play what we knew well.  Maybe next time we'll have a few solos as people showcase their more recent pieces.

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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #58 on: August 25, 2020, 11:45:16 PM »

Have to say that the lockdown has been great for my box playing, but I'm pretty sure it's because I use the accordion to procrastinate from work. I've got myself figured out!   :o
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Re: I am thinking of giving up playing the melodeon
« Reply #59 on: August 25, 2020, 11:45:23 PM »

So now slowly coming out of lockdown I have been  re reading this thread. I have had all the time I needed but still not been practising and playing like I should . Why is it so difficult I wonder.  I have met twice with some friends to play outside in a garden but now its personal motivation that is low, which is different from the original post. However I am still playing and when I pick up my box, after a 20 minute play,  I feel such good emotion and  good energy.  (:)  plod on then  :||:

Glad you are still playing Lizzy, even if it is just short periods of time. The fact that you are doing it at all is the really important thing, and you have already identified the 'good emotion and good energy'.

The lack of motivation seems to be very common during lockdown and other restrictions. You are not the only one feeling this way, so take comfort in that many of us are feeling similarly in one way or another. I believe things will get better, though there is still some way to go yet. Keep plodding on  :||: :|||:
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