Victor F

Hello I am starting to learn about chords and have some questions. When a music sheet has the letter of the chord on top does that mean you play the chord for the same length of the note below it? Is there anything special that needs to be done if the melody line includes the note in the chords? I noticed that in the Gary coove Easy Anglo 123 book that the c chord is notated as being 4 notes C-C-E-G. I believe that it is only C-E-G? Is there a reason to include the extra C? I have attached images showing examples of it.

Thanks for the info!

What does the 1, 2 open rectangle mean on this sheet music? Also some of the eighth notes have a italics 3 what does that mean?

I've was in same boat last October and picked up a Concertina. As someone with previously no music knowledge and still learning a whole lot I recommend making it very easy to practice even a little bit everyday.

I am new to music my understanding is that time signature is for notation of how many beats are in a measure. I am reading The Handbook of Tunes and methods for Irish traditional music by Frank Edgley and in the beginning of the book they write that certain types of songs are written in certain types of time signature for example that 4-4 is for reels, 2-4 is for hornpipes etc. It seems to me that time signature might indicate a style of song but this relationship is unclear to me?

I should clarify that the question comes from some who is new to music and wanting to start playing multiple notes at the same time. What's ITM?

Thanks everyone for the advice and support. I am going to keep learning and growing and hopefully be able to play with others and enjoy the process.

Any exercises for learning how to play in Octaves? I can follow sheet music that explicitly have the notes written down for both octaves but if I want to play with octaves without the sheet music it is challenging.

I scheduled a lesson with a concertina teacher though TakeLessons and I have never received tutoring before, so I don't know what to expect. Does anyone have any suggestions and things I can do ahead of time to get the most out the lesson and future lessons. I have been self-taught since I started learning concertina 4 months ago and figure getting mentorship will increase my growth as a musician.

I don't have any prior music training I have been playing concertina 4 months and self-teaching how to read sheet music and practicing tunes. Some of my musician friends invited me to a jam session to try playing some music together and it was really overwhelming. I found I was lacking in a lot of ways. I struggled with communicating aspects of music. I wasn't able to listen to other people playing and play along or improvise. I wasn't able to maintain an even tempo. My friends were chill about it I found the experience as a whole pretty embarrassing for myself. What are things I can do to get better? My current strategy of just practicing tunes seems inadequate if I would like to someday play with others.

I have a Rochelle anglo concertina that I bought on concertina connection. It does have accordion style reeds.

I was paying attention to the tension of my bellows. With a button push the concertina will automatically be drawn in without me adding extra force to it. So very little force is needed to push the concertina to make noise when pushing.

I have a relatively new Concertina (6 months old). I find that when I pull the bellows out there is greater force pulling the concertina which leads to push notes to be louder and pull notes to be quieter ( as the tension increases). To a lesser extent when the concertina is pushed together the inverse happens. I want to know how much as a player I can manage this. * Do I avoid getting the instrument into these tension zones? * It is just an aspect of the instrument that will go away as the instrument has more wear?

I am still a beginner player and I was curious if anyone else has experienced the issue when playing a new tune that has a similar note progression that muscle memory takes over and starts playing a different tune that I'm more familar with.

I've noticed that when playing lower notes it needs to use up more air in the bellows. Just wanted to make post to confirm that this is normal,