jazz

Hi my name is Felix and I am a music student at San Diego State University. And a Beginner accordionist in the North Park area. I have a general knowledge of music theory and read sheet music at an undergraduate level. I have been working through the PalmerHugh books but I feel stuck in my...

Hi everyone, This is my first post on the forum. I'm excited to be here! I'm looking for recommendations for accordion pieces (or artists) that use the Stradella bass system and lean toward slow, moody, or even somber jazz, modern, or contemporary styles. I came across an older thread on...

Hi everyone! For a while now, I’ve wanted to combine my two passions: coding and music. That’s why I created something I’d like to share with you. It’s called OpenRealB – a very simple website for viewing chord charts: ']https://www.openrealb.com I built it myself, and the idea is to always...

I'm nearing the end of the Anzaghi method, which I've really enjoyed, but now I'm wondering what's next. Arrigo Tomasi has a jazz accordion course, which is fairly expensive but 6 months of online lessons and guidance sounds like pretty good value. And yeah, I know 'if you learn jazz from...

Hi All, I play 120 bass piano accordion, and I am working with an old time jazz/dixieland group which has both a tuba player, and finger picking guitar which also contains alot of bass. I am looking for suggestions of bass patterns that keep my playing energetic, but not crowded or clashing...

As I learn CBA, I've been trying to work in ideas and exercises from Bert Ligon's excellent book, Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony (1996). One of Ligon's recommendations is to practice three common jazz ii-V-I outlines in all keys. I made a little worksheet with row-based CBA fingering...