Tabs For The Concertina?

[Luscious_Lena]

Call me musically retarded, but I can't really even read sheet music. Does anyone know where I can find tabs for the concertina that show you which buttons to push, and when to pull in and out? I know I'll have to learn to read music if i ever want to become an accomplished musician of any instrument, but just to get started, any advice?

[m3838]

Call me musically retarded, but I can't really even read sheet music. Does anyone know where I can find tabs for the concertina that show you which buttons to push, and when to pull in and out? I know I'll have to learn to read music if i ever want to become an accomplished musician of any instrument, but just to get started, any advice?

 

Get "Anglo Concertina Demistified" from the Button Box and forget about trouble.

[Dan Worrall]

Call me musically retarded, but I can't really even read sheet music. Does anyone know where I can find tabs for the concertina that show you which buttons to push, and when to pull in and out? I know I'll have to learn to read music if i ever want to become an accomplished musician of any instrument, but just to get started, any advice?

 

Get "Anglo Concertina Demistified" from the Button Box and forget about trouble.

 

Good advice; also, check out the old period tutors from the 19yh century, free to download at www.concertina.com .

 

If you like Morris music, there are a few William Kimber tunes transcribed in music and tab at www.angloconcertina.org .

[Luscious_Lena]

Get "Anglo Concertina Demistified" from the Button Box and forget about trouble.

 

Yeah, sounds good, but I have a 20 button not thirty.

[Larry Stout]

Does anyone know where I can find tabs for the concertina that show you which buttons to push, and when to pull in and out?

 

Paul de Ville's The Concertina and How to Play it, copyright 1905, but still (I think) in print, gives the sheet music with a number below the note giving the button to push and a P or D above the note to indicate push or draw. Every one of the 264 tunes included has this notation. All look like they could be played on a 20 button C/G concertina. His object is that you use the notation as an aid to learning to read standard music.

[m3838]

Get "Anglo Concertina Demistified" from the Button Box and forget about trouble.

Yeah, sounds good, but I have a 20 button not thirty.

 

 

Berthram Levy teaches mostly diatonic tunes, so you'll just need to transpose those in D to C, it's one tone down, and forgetting about those C# and F#. By the time you'll need it, you'll learn to read, and transposition of this kind will take you 15 minutes per piece. I learned on 20 button Lachenal in C/g. I wouldn't care about a book with more then 20 tunes without explanation, embellishements. And reading diatonic folk music in C and G with C/g Anglo is especially easy. I wouldn't bother to learn tablature, when you can just as quickly learn to read music. Tabs are good with complex arrangements, showing the choice of fingering. You wouldn't need this in the beginning with the common workhorse in C/g.

Another issue is badly written transcriptions for most tunes in most books. And how do you know if you like the tune from looking at Tablature?

At least Berthram has good taste, proven success, and acceptable choice of music.

So, yea, it sounds good, and it is good.

[Daniel Hersh]

More specifically, you might try the Minasi tutor which I recommended in response to your earlier question: http://www.concertina.com/merris/minasi-ge...-tutor-1846.pdf. It uses both tab and sheet music.

 

Good advice; also, check out the old period tutors from the 19yh century, free to download at www.concertina.com .

 

If you like Morris music, there are a few William Kimber tunes transcribed in music and tab at www.angloconcertina.org .