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Chris Ryall

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Re: Learning diatonic accordion
« Reply #60 on: March 22, 2020, 01:00:25 PM »

. It has been said that it takes seven months to learn the pipes and seven years to master them. That's probably true of the melodeon as well.

More or less my experience. My wife (who bought me a pokerwork to stop me practicing concertina!) was gobsmacked when I played a pair of polka’s straight through, no errors 😳  in Whitby Folk club. It was … 10 months in?
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Re: Learning diatonic accordion
« Reply #61 on: March 22, 2020, 01:18:11 PM »

I've been learning this wonderful instrument for 3 years and a bit.
I know a few music basics but use YouTube to familiarise myself with tunes and learn to play them.
I hope over the coming weeks of isolation to deal with several 'deficiencies', viz :-

Improved recognition of the actual notes coming out of each button (If someone says 'give me an f#' I have to run through the D scale to get to it)

Sight reading and playing simple tunes where I can't quickly find the tune on FolkTuneFinder or YouTube

abc notation

Improving my technique several notches - clarity; smoothness; starting and ending properly - including relearning some tunes



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Re: Learning diatonic accordion
« Reply #62 on: March 22, 2020, 02:31:55 PM »

but keep in mind that honing 'playing by ear' skills is just as or possibly more important than site reading in 'melodeon land'

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Re: Learning diatonic accordion
« Reply #63 on: March 22, 2020, 02:51:21 PM »

Thanks to all of you for your wisdom gained from experience. I found the responses enlightening and frequently entertaining, but best of all the consensus is to do what I've been doing and let my fingers find their way to the right (more often than not) buttons.
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Re: Learning diatonic accordion
« Reply #64 on: March 22, 2020, 06:31:41 PM »

Thanks to all of you for your wisdom gained from experience. I found the responses enlightening and frequently entertaining, but best of all the consensus is to do what I've been doing and let my fingers find their way to the right (more often than not) buttons.

Each tune you learn will have the potential to add something new to your bag of tricks.  Eventually you'll keep what works and sluff off the less effective bits.  It's beneficial to keep a tune list and go back over it whenever a new tune reveals a new trick to compare and contrast technique developments and go deeper into what makes the music flow.

Two suggestions:

1.  Arpeggio exercises for the fingers and
2.  Interval recognition training for the ears.

Combining 1&2, try harmonizing scales in 3rds and 6ths.

Have fun, good luck.
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