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    Tips & Tricks for Contra

    in Teaching and Learning

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    On 1/7/2019 at 12:25 PM, Devils' Dream said:

    Hello Bill:  Sort of on topic, jeff bigler (jeff bigler.org) has a great article on playing for morris that has some good application to contra as well.  If you cannot find it, I have a copy.  It's from 2009 and a classic.  Maybe you have already seen it.

    I am interested in Reading  Jeff' Bigler's article but can not open  the site in here the UK .Is their another way I can see it Thanks Bob

    Two finger rolls video

    in Teaching and Learning

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    Thanks Simon .I have been practicing on and off since Christmas this technique and I am not very good at it .I play Anglo so what I have to do is re-learn the route my fingers take across the keys .I use the rolls mostly on the G buttons push and pull  and occasionally on others .Two tunes i have applied this to is ,"Bear Dance "and "Irish Washer Woman" of course only playing the melody .How have other Anglo players  got on with it ? Bob

    Anglo playing guidance needed

    in Teaching and Learning

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    I taught myself to play with Mick Bramich's book as guide .I then found the best thing for progress was to go to session and learn to play with other instruments..The way to get better is to play as much as you can I only started in 2004 but today feel I can play in Sessions .play for Dance  and Sing and play.The one thing I always do is practice as much as I can and read concertina publications for extra technique .Good Luck its a wonderful instrument  .Bob

    Anglo in F

    in Teaching and Learning

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    I will need another lifetime to learn to play my Anglo like some players  II have just found the joy of playing my C/G in the key of F .It also suits my singing voice   !  Is there  other non row keys that should visit ?Bob

    Playing along with Guitar

    in Teaching and Learning

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    Thanks for all your input .Yes I will have to listen to the Key being played to find the Tonic .What I was doing was looking at the finger patterns the guitar player was using as my guide..The easy key for a guitar is E not so good for a C/G concertina .My friends who play guitar often sympathise and play in a more compatible key which is fine..My example with which I started was the guitar playing in D and then capo two frets making obviously the cords of E .Often though and again for example they move one fret making say D to D# major or G to G#major and so on.Like most of you I love playing music .I have fewer problems  Playing for Morris ,Cornish Dance .Folk songs or Irish Style. If I get into a pub session often when I am playing  there will be a call for the concertina to "Take the tune and improvise" I don't find that easy  and sometimes have to decline the invitation more practice required ----I think I will need another lifetime to complete my education on the concertina.        PS Let me know when you are in PZ  Dick   .   Bob

    Playing along with Guitar

    in Teaching and Learning

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    I am not very good at playing along with guitar players of which there are so many. I have been playing U Tube videos  and trying to accompany the songs .Its all ok until the Guitar player uses their Capo .For example I watch their hand position to see which cord they use ,so if say they are fingering the D Cord  I am ok until they capo up two semitones or more  which make cording on the Anglo more difficult.

    Bandoneon Stolen

    in General Concertina Discussion

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    My bandoneon got stolen

    As many eyes needed to try to find it back

    On 20 august 2018 at 23:17 my bandoneon was brutally stolen at Toulouse airport, France. I’m hoping to find it back with the help, eyes and ears of my facebook friends and connections. 
    Its a matte black chromatic instrument build by bandonionfabrik.de and is branded “AA". It is about 10 years old. The instrument can easily be recognised by the blanc tape used to fix the valve to the valve wire (not shown on picture). Please let me know if you see it somewhere, in real or online, if someone offers you an instrument like the one pictured. 
    It was stolen in a black bandoneon bag, with a shoulder strap and backpack straps branded “Percufund".

    Any help is greatly appreciated.            I know its not a Concertina but its theft of a similar instrument    if we can help .  I don't have an address but I can contact him on Facebook Bob

     

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