Show your pupil all those buttons next to the keyboard and tell them that if they ever ever press any of them, with the single exception of the one marked "oboe", you - and anyone else in the vicinity - will immediately attack their bellows with a stanley knife
If you need tips for teaching? Maybe, unless you're an awesome accordian player, and they demand to learn from you, Remember to take it slow and be patient with them. Don't try to teach them too fast cause they will surely get lost. I'm concerned about you teaching. If you don't know how to, you shouldn't, unless the student demands it. But if you're trying to learn, sorry, i don't know anything about the accordian.
If the thread is meant in either sense, I would suggest to emphesize being patient.
I remember as a kid the rows I would have with my father over learning the instrument. That's the reason I moved to piano and did not come back to PA for many years. Piano was so much easier than the PA. And for a kid, required much less for lack of a better concept, Zen.
PA is amazinginly complicated intellectually when one considers that in order to learn the basses, you have to have, or be willing to concurrently leanr, at least a rudimentary understanding of theory and be able to translate that pretty abstract bass pattern concept into a skill involving pushing a number of buttons, in rhythym, functionally blind.
There is only 1 thing - scales. Major. Minor. Arpeggios.
Use the pinky. Its not the other dangly bit.
Unlike other instruments (fiddles, flutes, whistles) that have a limited playing space (I am talking primarily first position for the fiddles. I know there is second and third and fourth...), they have to prepare for the next set of notes as much as the current set they are playing.
If they cannot manipulate the hand up and down the keyboard, then send them home to take up the triangle.
I have worked with three or four accordion players over the years.
My criticism of it as an instrument is that it has too much on it, and too much to do, and most people don't have enough spare processing ability to cope with it all at once.
Just s a start, you have three separate components, all of which need to be handled with sensitivity and discretion;
1) the keyboard, including a wide choice of reed selections
2) the basses, single notes and chords
3) the bellows to provide BOTH drive but also expression.
Only one of the many musicians I have worked with handled all of these components with equal skill, and she was a barn-dance player and was much too loud for a session.
At the other extreme there was a player of Scottish music who was both 5% too slow, PLUS absolutely wooden and without expression ( and so was her music ! ).
The only curious thing was that it was mainly women musicians on the accordion I have met and worked with. Not exclusively, but mainly.
There are, of course, many jokes about the accordion;
"Welcome to Hell...."
"The difference between a cowpad and...."
"The definition of perfect pitch...."
tips for teaching piano accordion?
tips for teaching piano accordion?
hi everyone, could anyone give me tips for teaching piano accordion, tunes to start with etc, thanks everyone.
# Posted on March 2nd 2011 by corby
Re: tips for teaching piano accordion?
Show your pupil all those buttons next to the keyboard and tell them that if they ever ever press any of them, with the single exception of the one marked "oboe", you - and anyone else in the vicinity - will immediately attack their bellows with a stanley knife
# Posted on March 2nd 2011 by ...
Re: tips for teaching piano accordion?
You might get some ideas from watching this new TV series:
The World Accordion to Phil:
http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php?topic=6245.0;wap2
Here's a recent article in The Scotsman about Phil!
Interview: Phil Cunningham - Round the world on a raft of reeds:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Interview-Phil-Cunningham--.6722650.jp
Cheers
Dick
# Posted on March 2nd 2011 by Ptarmigan
Re: tips for teaching piano accordion?
There's a village in north-eastern Siberia which needs a teacher.
# Posted on March 2nd 2011 by Steve Shaw
Re: tips for teaching piano accordion?
Don't you mean tips for learning piano accordion?
# Posted on March 2nd 2011 by gam
Re: tips for teaching piano accordion?
Any of these help,
http://www.buttonbox.com/learn-to-play-accordion.html#piano
But if all else fails just copy this guy,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksi3Oliju8c
jim,,,
# Posted on March 2nd 2011 by FIDDLE4
Re: tips for teaching piano accordion?
If you need tips for teaching? Maybe, unless you're an awesome accordian player, and they demand to learn from you, Remember to take it slow and be patient with them. Don't try to teach them too fast cause they will surely get lost. I'm concerned about you teaching. If you don't know how to, you shouldn't, unless the student demands it. But if you're trying to learn, sorry, i don't know anything about the accordian.
# Posted on March 2nd 2011 by fiddlelearner
Re: tips for teaching piano accordion?
If the thread is meant in either sense, I would suggest to emphesize being patient.
I remember as a kid the rows I would have with my father over learning the instrument. That's the reason I moved to piano and did not come back to PA for many years. Piano was so much easier than the PA. And for a kid, required much less for lack of a better concept, Zen.
PA is amazinginly complicated intellectually when one considers that in order to learn the basses, you have to have, or be willing to concurrently leanr, at least a rudimentary understanding of theory and be able to translate that pretty abstract bass pattern concept into a skill involving pushing a number of buttons, in rhythym, functionally blind.
Best of luck
# Posted on March 2nd 2011 by zippydw
Re: tips for teaching piano accordion?
There is only 1 thing - scales. Major. Minor. Arpeggios.
Use the pinky. Its not the other dangly bit.
Unlike other instruments (fiddles, flutes, whistles) that have a limited playing space (I am talking primarily first position for the fiddles. I know there is second and third and fourth...), they have to prepare for the next set of notes as much as the current set they are playing.
If they cannot manipulate the hand up and down the keyboard, then send them home to take up the triangle.
# Posted on March 4th 2011 by MorganYYZ
Re: tips for teaching piano accordion?
I have worked with three or four accordion players over the years.
My criticism of it as an instrument is that it has too much on it, and too much to do, and most people don't have enough spare processing ability to cope with it all at once.
Just s a start, you have three separate components, all of which need to be handled with sensitivity and discretion;
1) the keyboard, including a wide choice of reed selections
2) the basses, single notes and chords
3) the bellows to provide BOTH drive but also expression.
Only one of the many musicians I have worked with handled all of these components with equal skill, and she was a barn-dance player and was much too loud for a session.
At the other extreme there was a player of Scottish music who was both 5% too slow, PLUS absolutely wooden and without expression ( and so was her music ! ).
The only curious thing was that it was mainly women musicians on the accordion I have met and worked with. Not exclusively, but mainly.
There are, of course, many jokes about the accordion;
"Welcome to Hell...."
"The difference between a cowpad and...."
"The definition of perfect pitch...."
# Posted on March 5th 2011 by Guernsey Pete