Just starting out

[ianj38]

For my 50th birthday I have just bought a Scarlatti 20 button anglo. With it came a tutor for a 30 button! I am assuming that I just ignore the 3rd row, because when I have a go at the tunes at the back of the book at least one or two sound right . The instruction book shows the music to be payed as dots with key number on top with an annotation for pull or push. I am finding this approach really helpful, at least in the early stages. I understand that if I am to improve, it has to become more natural.

 

What I would like to do is to match up all the keys to notes on a stave. Is this done anywhere so I don't have to go through each of the tunes in the tutor to identify the position of each of the keys?

 

Thanks for any help

[Ken_Coles]

Yes, there are lots of fingering diagrams we can point you to. Is your concertina in C/G?

 

Ken

[ianj38]

Yes, there are lots of fingering diagrams we can point you to. Is your concertina in C/G?

 

Ken

 

Thanks.

 

Yes its C/G- I have a fingering diagram showing the keys. What I am not sure about is the match to notes on staves so that I can transcribe music to push/pull etc.

[michael sam wild]

Yes, there are lots of fingering diagrams we can point you to. Is your concertina in C/G?

 

Ken

 

Thanks.

 

Yes its C/G- I have a fingering diagram showing the keys. What I am not sure about is the match to notes on staves so that I can transcribe music to push/pull etc.

 

I found it useful to use 2 different coloured highlighter pens for push and pull to make the diagrams easier. Then I converted the dots on the stave to ABc ( elsewhere on this site) and used the chart and the highlighted ABc notation

 

use tunes in C first of all and stick to the C row of the instrument. If you want to play traditional music G will be more common and you start from the left hand side

 

Get used to the scales and don't bother with chords at first.

 

If you can play a mouth organ it helps as the Anglo-German concertina is like a mouthorgan per row of the instrument that has half on each side. Bertram Levy's book explains it nicely

 

 

All the ebst with the squeezing

Mike in Sheffield UK