First 50 Songs You Should Play on the Accordion. If you're new to the accordion, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides 50 simplified arrangements of must-know popular standards, folk songs and show tunes, including: All of Me - Beer Barrel Polka - Carnival of Venice - Edelweiss - Hava Nagila (Let's Be Happy) - Hernando's Hideaway - Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - Lady of Spain - Moon River - 'O Sole Mio - Sentimental Journey - Somewhere, My Love - That's Amore (That's Love) - Under Paris Skies - and more. Includes lyrics when applicable.

In our new pop series for accordion, the experienced accordion player and music teacher Manfred Kaierle presents easy and well-sounding arrangements of hot chart hits, pop classics and evergreens. Timeless pop classics have been arranged specifically for this instrument and thus reinvented.Content: Atemlos durch die Nacht - Les Champs-Elysées - A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Rock Around The Clock - Wind Of Change - Take Me To Church and many more. / Accordéon

Looking On Darkness for Accordion solo was composed by Bent Sørensen in 2000. Programme note: It is in the attempt to recreate a lost world without any illusion of its feasibility that we find the Danish composer Bent Sørensen's beautiful and melancholic music. Sørensen one of the most frequently performed contemporary Scandinavian composers has taken the title Looking on Darkness from Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 27. The thematic and intellectually clearly constructed form in which the inherent emotion is centrally placed and which characterises the sonnet also forms the basis of Sørensen'scomposition which is dedicated to Frode Haltli. As in Shakespeare's sonnet the past memory arises in Sørensen's music as it were out of nothing out of the darkness the silence; the concrete rattle of the accordion buttons and the sensitive dripping notes in the opening section vibrate on the borderline between the concrete and the hereafter. Loss and mourning for that which is lost and will never come again flow into the fleeting and poetic tones and meld together; the music oscillates lingers holds tightly to the absence slackens its grip tries again moves carefully onwards like the fragmentary memories in Samuel Beckett's late prose before the sorrowful voice of the piece just as beautiful and unobtrusive withdraws again and leaves us to the silence to what used to be.

This method which can be used for any size of instrument from 12 to 120 bass takes the student rapidly through the fundamentals in a manner to establish self-confidence from the first lesson. This book presents a new and scientifically correct program for mastering finger technique enabling the accordionist to acquire the brilliant technique of the professional player far more rapidly than by indiscriminate and haphazard practice. Included also is a neasily understood course in Keyboard Harmony and its adaptation in harmonizing melodies and playing effectively from piano and violon music. Finally this method contains a series of carefully graded and edited solosembracing all forms of music from Swing-Boogie to the Classics.

Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backing track!. Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you play yourAccordion.In this great book you get:A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanationsPractical advice and tips covering everything you need to know to get playing fast!CD audio tracks to show you how things should sound plus...Full-length accompaniment tracks to play along with!An owner's manual approach to your Accordion that makes learning easier than everbefore.