Frank Edgley's How to Play the Concertina DVD

[fearfeasog]

I'm debating getting either Frank's printed tutor with the CD or the DVD tutor. Has anyone used the DVD tutor? What did you think, and is it suitable for a beginner like me? How are the lessons laid out?

 

Thanks.

[malcolmbebb]

I did enquire about the DVD a while ago, got a price but never got a clear answer if it included p&p to UK. So I didn't buy it in the end.

[Sean M]

I have Frank's DVD. I found it very useful when starting off on the concertina. I would also recommend Niall Vallely's Mad For Trad: Concertina interactive CD-ROM. He does a good job explaining techniques used for ornamentation

[michael sam wild]

If it were a toss up I'd get the book and CD it was most helpful. The DVD is also great!

[fearfeasog]

Thanks. Hadn't considered the Vallely cd-rom. I'll look into it.

Edited July 22, 2012 by fearfeasog

[fearfeasog]

I went ahead and got the Vallely CD-ROM. It's pretty darn good. Opens up in your web browser, and you can copy the whole shebang onto your hard drive and it still runs fine, which speeds access times up a bit as a bonus. The sound quality of the interview sections is a bit muddy but the song demos are fine. Videos are small, though--I do wish they could be seen in full screen, but there again I think they'd be grainy anyway as the resolution seems to be low.

 

As a side note, I tried out some of the nicer boxes there at The Button Box when I went to pick up the CD-ROM and I was blown away by the differences between them and the Rochelle. They handle sooo much better and feel like real instruments. The Rochelle is fine but it now seems very cumbersome and clunky to me, and the different reeds respond so differently from one another. I have trouble getting my cuts to articulate well, though that's probably user error!

 

anyway, yup.