WoodyPhyseter
Newbie
Hello community, you can call me Woody. let me introduce myself and my "new" accordion.
So I'm one of those people that had all the opportunities to let music be center of my life but decided that having 1000 interests and 100 hobbies is better suited for me.
As a child and teenager I played violin, piano, and guitar. Then have also come upon playing bass, djembe, melodion, and the tin-flute. About 7 years ago I got my hands on a 60 button piano accordion and then gave it to a close friend of mine who moved to another continent. I had it all cleaned up, rewaxed and tuned with new leathers. Just to say I had a lot of fun with it and learned quite a couple songs, some of them were "infernal gallop", "if i were a rich man", "the chicken dance" and more.
As I recall the songs were very easy to learn and I was quite good in my opinion. Maybe I'm getting old but it's taking me alot longer to learn songs with my "new" accordion. I'm pretty sure I used to learn accordion songs through videos, something that I'm not as interested in now.
So here we go, I wanted a 100 button 'Bayan' accordion. Don't judge me! I wanted a chromatic button style piano accordion because I'm too familiar with the 'piano' layout and needed to start fresh to get back into reading sheet music. The bayan was cheaper and easily found online so my wife got it for me for my birthday this spring. Ultimately I'd like a cheap freebass bayan one day but want to get familiar and practice on stradella to not be overwhelmed. I want to learn right this time and learn from sheet music. Having this different keyboard has really been fun, though I'm not sure that I have the fingering correctly (melody side) and sometimes find myself jumping a couple rows up or down from lack of available fingers.
a couple questions that I hope this community will be able to help me with are:
-B-system fingering do's and don'ts
-On the bass side Stradella system, are there hand positions for keys? I tend to play near the the C note and then find myself looking for the flat note thrice in a song that's nowhere near.
-Since I have a 100 bass bayan, I'm missing the diminished chord, as I understand I can substitute for the "flat chord" of the true bass note? but then it's so far. is there a better trick for substituting diminished chords?
-Tricks on converting piano sheet music to Stradella system accordion sheet music.
-What are your personal tricks on learning to play, unfornately for me, I cannot focus on the bellow direction until I make less mistakes as they could affect my tempo.
So that's that, I hope I won't get booted for choosing a B-system chromatic 100 bass accordion. And if not, I hope to hear from you all.
have a good night.
So I'm one of those people that had all the opportunities to let music be center of my life but decided that having 1000 interests and 100 hobbies is better suited for me.
As a child and teenager I played violin, piano, and guitar. Then have also come upon playing bass, djembe, melodion, and the tin-flute. About 7 years ago I got my hands on a 60 button piano accordion and then gave it to a close friend of mine who moved to another continent. I had it all cleaned up, rewaxed and tuned with new leathers. Just to say I had a lot of fun with it and learned quite a couple songs, some of them were "infernal gallop", "if i were a rich man", "the chicken dance" and more.
As I recall the songs were very easy to learn and I was quite good in my opinion. Maybe I'm getting old but it's taking me alot longer to learn songs with my "new" accordion. I'm pretty sure I used to learn accordion songs through videos, something that I'm not as interested in now.
So here we go, I wanted a 100 button 'Bayan' accordion. Don't judge me! I wanted a chromatic button style piano accordion because I'm too familiar with the 'piano' layout and needed to start fresh to get back into reading sheet music. The bayan was cheaper and easily found online so my wife got it for me for my birthday this spring. Ultimately I'd like a cheap freebass bayan one day but want to get familiar and practice on stradella to not be overwhelmed. I want to learn right this time and learn from sheet music. Having this different keyboard has really been fun, though I'm not sure that I have the fingering correctly (melody side) and sometimes find myself jumping a couple rows up or down from lack of available fingers.
a couple questions that I hope this community will be able to help me with are:
-B-system fingering do's and don'ts
-On the bass side Stradella system, are there hand positions for keys? I tend to play near the the C note and then find myself looking for the flat note thrice in a song that's nowhere near.
-Since I have a 100 bass bayan, I'm missing the diminished chord, as I understand I can substitute for the "flat chord" of the true bass note? but then it's so far. is there a better trick for substituting diminished chords?
-Tricks on converting piano sheet music to Stradella system accordion sheet music.
-What are your personal tricks on learning to play, unfornately for me, I cannot focus on the bellow direction until I make less mistakes as they could affect my tempo.
So that's that, I hope I won't get booted for choosing a B-system chromatic 100 bass accordion. And if not, I hope to hear from you all.
have a good night.