How best to learn harmonic Anglo?
I've been playing the Anglo concertina for a few months now, using Chris Sherburn and Dave Mallinson's excellent "Anglo Concertina Complete Beginners" tutor book. I started with a Stagi concertina and have recently bought a lovely 1920s Lachenal Anglo from Chris Algar at Barleycorn.
I can now play some really nice tunes from this book quite competently, but the book only teaches you to play in the single-note melody style. Obviously it's essential to learn to do that, but I feel that no
I set out from day 1 to learn "the harmonic style" and now tend to feel that there is no single "harmonic style" There are techniques and approaches that work for different types of tune.
However, you need to make a start with a basic style and the develop techniques as you go on.
The two things to work on are:
The physical coordination required to play 2 things at once.
The intuition of which notes to play.
The simplest harmonic styles are based on
