jdms Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 Having attended a couple of Brian's workshops over the years I would encourage you to borrow a C/G and go. Although as has been said a G/D wouldnt work so well in the workshop, what you would learn is directly transferable to the G/D and will be massively useful to your playing. This is because Brian tends to base the workshop on the key of C, so you can transfer what you learn to the key of G on your G/D with ease. If you are interested in the English style then there's really only Brian and John K doing workshops, so grab the chance while it's there! Chris Since Ken has so kindly offered to lend me a C/G (for which thank you very much, Ken), I'll be sending in my registration form shortly. Now I get a month and a half's worth of anticipation... Joshua Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken_Coles Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 Since Ken has so kindly offered to lend me a C/G (for which thank you very much, Ken), I'll be sending in my registration form shortly. Now I get a month and a half's worth of anticipation... Joshua And that's for Mass on April 14, right? I'll be there but not at Elderly on the 28th of April. See y'all. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Morse Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 I just had a look at the registration form for the Northeast Concertina Workshop and discovered that the description of Brian Peters' English-style Anglo workshop, which interests me a whole heck of a lot, has a note saying "C/G desirable." I have a question, and my question is this: just how strong is this here desire?His fingerings/techniques will be the same for any key anglo. The problem is that you'll not be able to play in the same key with the same fingerings everyone else there - unless you have a C/G. The Button Box will have several C/G's loaners available for the day. Please contact us beforehand to reserve a box. -- Rich -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Jowaisas Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 I'll remind folks that I will have ten 20b C/G concertinas available for Brian's Cincinnati area beginners workshops and several 30b C/G concertinas available as loaners for the intermediate workshop. Our workshop is scheduled for Thursday, April 26. Beginners 6 to 7:30pm; Intermediates 8 to 10. The evening of April 25th Brian will be co-featured in concert along with the British Folk group Tana. Cincinnati is two hours from Columbus, OH and Indianapolis, IN and Louisville and Lexington, KY. Click my name in the upper left and contact me for details. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Peters Posted March 6, 2007 Author Share Posted March 6, 2007 I just had a look at the registration form for the Northeast Concertina Workshop and discovered that the description of Brian Peters' English-style Anglo workshop, which interests me a whole heck of a lot, has a note saying "C/G desirable." I have a question, and my question is this: just how strong is this here desire?Joshua Joshua,Other contributors have already gone part-way to answering this question, but for myself I would say the desire is pretty strong. In my early days as workshop leader I didn't specify instrument tunings, with the result that I would sometimes find myself with a 50/50 split of C/Gs and G/Ds. This gave me two alternatives - either explain the fingerings to the whole room and then have two separate play-throughs for every practice run, or stick to tunes in the key of G that everyone could play, necessitating that I explain two different fingering schemes. Either approach takes a lot of additional time and means that not nearly so much gets done. It's difficult enough dealing with instruments with different configurations on the third (accidentals) row, or with less than thirty buttons (although this does not apply to beginner workshops where two rows will suffice), without having uncertainty over keys as well. I used the word "desirable" because I don't want to tell any anglo player that they can't come because they have the "wrong" instrument, and I would do my best to make sure a G/D player would go away having learned useful stuff. Nonetheless it is easier for me, and to the benefit of the group as a whole, that we are all in the same key if possible. I also realise that playing many of the common session tunes in the "English" (ie. chordally-accompanied) style is a whole lot easier on a G/D than on a C/G - not a problem for me, as I can always play melodeon in a session if the C/G anglo can't get round the tune - but of course the fingering you learn from me will translate straight across to your G/D when you get home. I realise your problem has been solved by Ken's kind intervention, but I'm posting this in case anyone else is uncertain about my preferences. Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 I just want to remind everybody about the Brian Peters five-hour Anglo-concertina-played-English-style workshop plus concerts the last weekend of April. Such a workshop (English style Anglo) really is very rare in this part of the country (Michigan), and I'm looking forward to learning some skills that will be new for me (specifically, lots of chording in the left hand and also some song accompaniment techniques). Brian is doing a concert Friday night, April 27th, at the Ten Pound Fiddle in East Lansing (www.tenpoundfiddle.org). Then the workshop is Saturday, April 28th, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Elderly Instuments in Lansing http://www.elderly.com/events/2007/event_page?eid=557 . Then that night, he'll be doing a concert for the Grand River Folk Arts Society (www.grfolkarts.org) in Grand Rapids, MI. Also, if you're coming to the workshop, don't forget to bring a brown bag lunch. This is going to be great! Best, Nancy Wells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animaterra Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I seem to be the first to report after the Northeast Concertina Workshop. I'm glad to say that I chose to go to two of Brian Peter's workshops. What an excellent teacher! He is not only an outstanding player but clearly knows how to convey the information he wants us to gain. I also appreciated his expectation that we would stop "diddling" and listen when he wanted to go on to the next thing. It's too early in the morning for me to try out the new things I learned- the college girls upstairs might not appreciate an early Sunday morning concertina serenade! But I plan to spend the afternoon diddling through the chords and tricks I learned from Brian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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