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The Hal Leonard Anglo Concertina Method is designed for anyone just learning to play a 20- or 30-button Anglo concertina. This comprehensive beginner's guide gives students an overview of the instrument, including proper playing technique and button orientation. From there, it moves to easy applications in music reading and fingering considerations. Using familiar melodies and popular Irish tunes, this easy-to-use guide will get you playing like a pro in no time! This book includes over twenty lessons and audio tracks along with: detailed button charts for each song; reading standard music notation; Wheatstone and Jeffries fingerings; 20-button considerations; holding the concertina; using the air button; example recordings, and more. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• How to Use This Book
• Adjusting the Hand Straps
• Holding the Concertina
• When Playing the Instrument
• Button Chart Orientation
• Interpreting the Notation
• First Notes
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Using the Air Button
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
• Anglo Concertina Range
• Row Row Row Your Boat
• G Major
• Happy Birthday to You
• Note Durations and Repeat Signs
• Loch Lamond
• Bellows Pressure and Volume
• Wild Mountains Thyme
• 3/4 Time
• Shoe the Donkey
• Wheatstone, Jefferies, and 20-Button Considerations
• Arran Boat Song
• Low "A" Fingering Considerations
• Egan's Polka
• Sixteenth Notes
• Maggie in the Woods
• Bridging Notes
• Down by the Sally Gardens
• 6/8 Time
• The Kesh
• Low "B" Fingering Considerations
• The Foggy Dew
• Triplets
• Off to California
• Lowest Octave "B"
• The Banshee
• B-c#-d
• Wind That Shakes the Barley
• Practicing Fingering Alternatives
• Swallow Tail Jig
• 9/8 Time
• The Butterfly
• Standard Music Notation
• Man of the House
• Accidentals
• Woman of the House
• Playing in Different Keys, Key of G
• Silver Spire (Key of G)
• Playing in Different Keys, Key of D
• Silver Spire (Key of D)
• Playing by Ear
• Where to Go from Here
• Appendix A: Sharps and Flats
• Appendix B: Core Buttons
• Appendix C: Counting Note Values

Catalog:	00286506
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
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Voicing:	Concertina
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Pages:	64