This collection by Bruce Bollerud welcomes you to the international world of Accordion music. The book contains samples of ethnic folk music from Europe and the Americas and forms the foundation of a basic folkAccordion repertoire. Access to online audio is also included.These songs are from many nations. They are crowd pleasers and they are fun to play. I have played most of these songs in the various bands Ihave played with over the years. These melodies have stood the test of time so what are you waiting for' Open the book get your accordion out and let's play some music!One word about these songs: I generallylearn a song and then play it by heart-by memory as opposed to playing it by reading from a sheet of music. I believe this allows for more personal expression and interpretation which can be affected by audience response or theway I feel at the time. You'll notice that on most of the performances on the audio download available online I didn't play repeats. Because of the limited time available on a disc we found we couldn't fit all the tunes if weplayed them as written. - Bruce Bollerud

This collection presents 39 lively French and American tunes for Piano accordion with companion audio providing backup only for 27 of the songs.Recommended for the intermediate player. Because this book is a reprint ofa French edition the Solfege system is used for indicating left hand buttons (Do Re Mi instead of C D E etc.) but chord symbols are also given in the standard letter-name format.Other musical markings are also inFrench. Lyrics are not included. Includes access to online audio.