ISBN 9781619118683.

This book presents a collection of classic wedding standards for solo keyboard accordion. The songs are presented in easy-to-read arrangements in popular keys. Each piece includes fingering suggestions and a recommendation for placement within the wedding ceremony. Arrangements vary from easy to intermediate.

ISBN 9781619116719. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

Learn Blues Accordion is a unique method book that includes 34 blues compositions and numerous exercises that will help you master the blues. The exercises increase in difficulty and introduce concepts and techniques that specifically target both hands. Explore blues scales, chord progressions and learn common blues techniques such as grace notes, slides, pedal points, double stops and tremolos. Left hand accompanying rhythmic styles are taught and used throughout the material, including boogie-woogie, the blues shuffle, New Orleans and walking bass lines. This book also features exercises on comping chords in common blues keys using various rhythmic patterns. Accompanying audio is recorded in stereo format, separating the left and right hands. The recordings are available online with included access.

ISBN 9781609741570. A comprehensive method written especially for serious students learning the accordion without access to formal music lessons. Seasoned music educator and performer Neil Griffin guides the student through music reading fundamentals, correct posture and hand position, use of the bellows, bass buttons, keyboard, and more. Music theory concepts are introduced as required by the generous selection of carefully graded exercises and pieces. Although this book covers concepts that apply to the 120-bass accordion, it only uses 54 buttons (covering 9 rows in keys). Illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781619115866. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. From Apples in Winter to The Wise Maid, this collection of Irish jigs, reels, and polkas provides beginning to advanced players with a wealth of traditional Irish music for solo keyboard accordion. This collection includes a number of tunes transcribed from recordings of not only the keyboard accordion, but also the Irish button box and concertina. Herein too are many of the author's own arrangements. Some of the stellar players whose work appears here are: Jimmy Keane, Phil Cunningham, Alan Kelly, Joe Burke, Jackie Daly, Tom Doherty, Chris Sherburn, Sharon Shannon, and Tony MacMahon. With a basic guide to fingering and rhythm chord symbols included, this book will allow even the novice accordionist to join in a traditional Irish session. The audio features the author's performance of medleys including 21 of the book's 100 selections. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 978-3-7378-0580-3.

Reggae, Dreigsang, Balkan or Techno - that doesn't matter at Oansno. The 4 Munchner inner city musicians cross the border between folk music and the party scene. With their traditional line-up (helicon, trumpet, accordion and beer wagons) they create powerful, very danceable beats with which they bring the mood to a boil in taverns as well as at pop festivals. Her music and lyrics are shaped by Bavarian beer bliss and the cultural diversity of Munich, the compositions are straightforward, cheeky and direct. With "Oane moan i pack i no" they deliver a modern version of the classic "Oane gehd no" and for the first listeners of this composition it was immediately clear that this song belongs to the Oktoberfest, at the Oiden Wiesn there are Oansno in everyone Case to hear for yourself. In its first year on the stage, Oansno won two coveted prizes, including the Fraunhofer Folk Music Prize sponsored by the city of Munich. For their first EP, the sworn live and full throttle musicians from Oansno dared the unfamiliar route from the stage to the studio and recorded five "delicacies". They did an excellent job of transporting the energy and pressure of their live performances into the studio production.