Hello from Ireland

[Fitzer]

New to the forum ,play the chromatic button accordion. Or should I say I play with the accordion :lol:
Cheers .

 

[Glenn]

Hi Fitzer welcome to the forum.
As an Irishman do you specialise in Irish music or are you into other styles?

 

[Fitzer]

Hi Fitzer welcome to the forum.
As an Irishman do you specialise in Irish music or are you into other styles?

Hi Glenn ,I was brought up on Irish music as my late dad played the pipes ,but I love continental music ,but am not playing very long and as there are no teachers for the CBA over here ,I have a long way to go,but getting there slowly. It helps being retired at least I have plenty of time to practice.

 

[Soulsaver]

High Fitzer and a warm welcome... need it too, bit of snow on the ground here, now. How are you learning without a teacher? Using a method book?

 

[Fitzer]

Hi Soulsaver, I had a few piano accordion lessons when I was in my teens ,so have an idea about the bass ,mostly learn tunes by ear and also from utube. It can be slow but it works , mind you I don't expect I will ever be playing in a concert hall ,but I enjoy it,and it's great pastime.I'm not sounding to bad when I play on my own ,but when any body is listening the brain forgets to tell the fingers where to go :lol: .
Cheers.

 

[Matt Butcher]

Yes, hello and welcome, and I'm glad you are liking the instrument. Sometimes it can seem that if you ask five cba players how to do something, you might get six different answers, but that's all part of the fun, and in spite of that or because of it you might well pick up some tips here. Sounds like you're doing ok though.

 

[Geoff de Limousin]

Hello Fitzer, although I now live in France I used to live in Co.Clare and played a lot of Irish music, including on the Pipes. But now living in CBA land I have also taken up the instrument.
If you read music there is plenty of material about. I am curently working on three books of Augverne trad music which have been arranged for CBA... I'm not sure they are comercially available, a friend got them for me from the creator, who is an accordeon teacher. This collection is not too difficult for a beginner like myself and makes a good primer for the more complex tunes and arrangements normally associated with French accordeon . Other than that I am taking a learn by ear approach too, even though one can find a teacher very easily here by enroling at the local conservatoire ... think it would cost less than 200 euros a year to get a one to one lesson each week.

For Chrismas my wife bought me " La Belle Histiore de l'Accordeon" a 20 CD boxed set , nearly 24 hours of recordings by the great players of the past.. available on Amazon...

I envie you your retirement... wish I had more time to practice.... good luck, Geoff.

 

[Fitzer]

Yes, hello and welcome, and Im glad you are liking the instrument. Sometimes it can seem that if you ask five cba players how to do something, you might get six different answers, but thats all part of the fun, and in spite of that or because of it you might well pick up some tips here. Sounds like youre doing ok though.

Thanks Matt
You are starting to get somewhere and then you listen to a really good player and you realise how much you have to learn ,but we all have different skills I just wish mine had been as a good CBA player :lol:

 

[Fitzer]

Hello Fitzer, although I now live in France I used to live in Co.Clare and played a lot of Irish music, including on the Pipes. But now living in CBA land I have also taken up the instrument.
If you read music there is plenty of material about. I am curently working on three books of Augverne trad music which have been arranged for CBA... Im not sure they are comercially available, a friend got them for me from the creator, who is an accordeon teacher. This collection is not too difficult for a beginner like myself and makes a good primer for the more complex tunes and arrangements normally associated with French accordeon . Other than that I am taking a learn by ear approach too, even though one can find a teacher very easily here by enroling at the local conservatoire ... think it would cost less than 200 euros a year to get a one to one lesson each week.

For Chrismas my wife bought me La Belle Histiore de lAccordeon a 20 CD boxed set , nearly 24 hours of recordings by the great players of the past.. available on Amazon...

I envie you your retirement... wish I had more time to practice.... good luck, Geoff.

Hi Geoff I hope you enjoyed your time in Clare ,plenty of trad Irish there. Are you playing the CBA long.You are keeping busy with your writing ,hope it is going well for you ,how do you get the time to do all this writing. :lol:
What a great present you received from your wife hope you enjoy them .Yes this retirement is wonderful you can really do now what you want and not what you had to do ,if you get my drift .
Cheers for now .

 

[Geoff de Limousin]

Oh 'tis not writing I'm doing, Fitzer, but reading, though much time is spent doing that in French, as I'm a late starter on the language!

I've been at the CBA for about a year, though at first I had problems because I chose too small an instrument, thinking it would be easier, and I just could not get comfortable with it. However there are any amount of CBA's available secondhand here so, with a bit of persistence during the year, and several changes of box, something inspiring arrived between my paws . Cheers, Geoff.