My Christmas Gift

[m3838]

Hi.

Here's my promised Christmas gift to the community.

Some cool tunes from Russian bayan tutor. I scanned them, cleaned off the bass line, fingering tips and the like and preserved only the trebble arrangement, that can be useful for concertina. I kept EC in mind, but am sure Anglo players may use it too.

My apologies to duet players. If you want full arrangements, with fully spelled out chords (russian style) in the left hand, say so and I will upload them. Only you will have to deal with clogged pages, with russian symbols, tytles etc. The music is music, and those of you who are proficient in reading, may benefit from the full score.

Again, Happy Christmas to you, Christians

Merry Holidays to you, Atheists

Happy Quanza to you, mm, Quanzanians, I guess

And all the rest.

Not that I fully understand why my relative Yeshuah's ideas became so popular among technology bent European pagans, they seem to be very difficult and unrealistic to practice, but to each - it's own.

Here are the tunes:

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http://www.mediamax.com/mberenstein/Hosted...Cheremshina.jpg

 

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Edited December 17, 2006 by m3838

[bellowbelle]

Thanks!

 

I printed these out -- some are larger than the paper but I was able to save them and resize them with my photo editing program. I think the last two were regular size.

 

I will have to make an adjustment where there are notes higher than the high D -- my 37-button system doesn't go higher than that.

 

I am trying every now and then to learn songs from printed music. I find it difficult, because for some reason I just can't commit them to memory and I seem to have to labor through the black dots each time. But, in spite of that, I have managed to work out a few pieces from written music. And these look interesting!

 

I hope you have a great holiday season.

 

It's strange here this year...no snow on the ground where I am, and it's been eerily warm. I hate the cold so I can't say that I"m complaining, but it makes me wonder what the pay-back will turn out to be! Like, an ice-age in July or something.

[m3838]

Thanks!

 

I printed these out -- some are larger than the paper but I was able to save them and resize them with my photo editing program. I think the last two were regular size.

 

I will have to make an adjustment where there are notes higher than the high D -- my 37-button system doesn't go higher than that.

 

I am trying every now and then to learn songs from printed music. I find it difficult, because for some reason I just can't commit them to memory and I seem to have to labor through the black dots each time. But, in spite of that, I have managed to work out a few pieces from written music. And these look interesting!

 

I hope you have a great holiday season.

 

It's strange here this year...no snow on the ground where I am, and it's been eerily warm. I hate the cold so I can't say that I"m complaining, but it makes me wonder what the pay-back will turn out to be! Like, an ice-age in July or something.

 

Yes, the last two were in resolution 72, others in 200. I think 72 lost a bit of clarity and some notes are blurry. So I uploaded in higher resolution, it's a bit crispier. I think if you print them, they'll come up in normal size, but crispier. Sorry for the pink color, it's a scan from an old book and I did the best to match the color.

 

As for commiting to memory, it's like saying you can't swim, the water doesn't hold you. Wy wouldn't it?

Practice! May be employ some of the tricks, like learning the last bar first. Then two last bars. Then the bar or two in the middle. Etc.

And practice!. I think if you hear the tune and hum it - and able to learn it, it's the same as reading a phrase, memorize it and learn to hum it. If you try to learn the whole piece from the paper, the process is so slow and dismembered, there is no way to remember the whole thing. Learn by pieces.

[Larry Stout]

Thanks for the upload.

 

Here's a seasonal offerring from O'Neil's with a small bit of harmony:

FrostAndSnow2.pdf

[m3838]

Thanks for the upload.

 

Here's a seasonal offerring from O'Neil's with a small bit of harmony:

FrostAndSnow2.pdf

 

Thanks.

Now we're talking!

[bellowbelle]

!Good one, Larry!

 

I meant to add a reply here earlier but holiday cooking and baking and all that has kept me busy. Wanted to simply say that I've decided to first learn to play written music for concertina on my old (outta tune) piano, THEN play it on my concertina.

 

This is for two reasons....one is that my beloved and devoted cat, Teacup, won't let me play the concertina (unless she is free to climb all over me), but she'll let me play the piano. She loves the concertina and has to join in, I guess. So, I get tired of all of my practice time being restricted by the cat! The piano is in an open area -- don't have to play it in the bathroom.

 

The other reason is that, while laying down the memory work for a song before I am familiar with it, I think it's helpful for me to use the piano keyboard first. I'm not a piano player really, but maybe because I started out on piano accordion, it's still a little easier to remember than is the English concertina keyboard.

 

Almost 2 AM here, but...the gingerbread dudes are calling....must go finish getting them put into bags and boxes! Then, still more to do before I can call it a day, here. Happy Holidays, y'all.