To be a highly skilled musician, learning from early childhood is essential. However, for latecomers to music, all is not lost. The press/draw melodeon scale is ideal for playing many of the excellent, but relatively simple, tunes that abound in traditional music. Only fourteen notes are required to play all the easy, well-known tunes in this book, well within the scope of any G/D melodeon, and with practice, they can soon be in the repertoire of dedicated, enthusiastic students. Once you can tap out the rhythm on the bass buttons, you can be a one-man-band in no time; proficient enough to join in pub sessions, play for a morris side, perform at a folk club or simply entertain friends.

 

As well as standard musical notation, a tablature has been devised, using symbols shown on the layout opposite. This powerful tool allows you to instantly see exactly what is required of your fingers to play the tunes. The treble tablature indicates the required button and bellows for every note (doubly useful, because for many notes, there is a choice of two buttons). The time signature spacing indicates the note lengths and the bass tablature points out which button to strike and where it occurs in relation to the melody notes. There are four different note lengths in this book, quavers, crotchets, dotted crotchets, and minims. Timing, note lengths and bass strikes are best understood by listening to the soundtrack. The book focuses solely on easy reels (4/4 time) and jigs (6/8 time) in the keys of D and G. This is an excellent book for players of all abilities, however players who can already beat the bass buttons in time will get most immediate benefit. Students completely new to the instrument might find it a good idea to use it alongside my Absolute Beginners book.

 

Instant Melodeon, Absolute Beginners and Tunes and Techniques are three melodeon tuition books designed to be used simultaneously, not in any particular sequence.

 

Contents

 

Foreword by Simon Care

The Treble and Bass Layout

Bass Exercises

Scales Excercises

Aiken Drum

Balance the Straw

Blue-Eyed Stranger

Bonny Breast Knot

Bonny Green Garters

Brown Banner

Buttered Peas

Camptown Races

Dorset Four Hand Reel

Drunken Sailor

Fiery Clock Face

Galopede

Grimstock

Hereʼs to a Maiden

Hey Away

Hunt the Squirrel

Huntsmen's Chorus

Iʼll Tell Me Ma

Jenny Lind

The Lady in the Boat

Lass o' Dallowgill

Laudanum Bunches

Maggie in the Wood

Major Mackie's

Moon and Seven Stars

Muffin Man

Nelly Bly

New Rigged Ship

Oats, Peas, Beans

Oh! Susanna

Oh! the Britches

Perfect Cure

Portsmouth

Rattlin' Bog

Salmon Tails

Shave the Donkey

This Old Man

Three Around Three

Tink-a-Tink

Tip Top Polka

Wha Saw the Forty Twa

Winster Gallop

Format
Paperback 24 pages
Author
Author Dave Mallinson

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