Accordion Quickstart

Put your accordion on and get going immediately! These step-for-step instructions and expert tips will guide you straight through musical experiences on the accordion. THE BASICS: Learn to use the bellow in a musical way, practice an efficient fingering technique and learn to understand sheet music. QUICKSTART TOP 20: Get started with world hits for all occasions. POSTURE: You will learn to play dynamically, starting with lifting the instrument through to finger speed and accuracy. MUSICAL STYLES AND FEELING: Learn to be flexible through 31 versatile accompaniment figures from polka to rock & pop, including tips on appropriate accenting. CREATIVITY: Become inventive using simple building blocks from improvisations and compositions. KNOW-HOW: Learn about the most important facts concerning accordion types, sound generation, care and maintenance. COMPACT KNOWLEDGE: Utilise the ingenious correlations between standard bass notes to play according to chord symbols. Gain an overview of prevalent musical terms. ACCORDION QUICKSTART is the first work to utilise latest innovative bass notation. Here, correlations and motion sequences of the left hand are directly memorised, both mentally and in terms of muscle memory.