The method is aimed at both beginners and professionals, and is aimed at acquiring well-structured and organized training for levels of difficulty in order to provide adequate technical / theoretical skills. This collection of exercises is a first approach to jazz language; in fact, the text progressively addresses technically advanced topics, enriched by advice and useful lessons, without neglecting the part devoted to functional harmony, with the harmonization of the notes, the expression of the acronyms even in the horizontality of the arpeggios, the various chord types, the major and minor II-V-I progressions, the approach notes, the variations of a melody, the most used rhythm patterns, and finally a selection of traditional and jazz tracks.

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(Accordion). The English edition of this accordion method penned by father/son authors Lucien & Richard Galliano includes fingering indications for both piano and button accordions, plus online audio demo tracks for download or streaming. The book features full-color illustrations by Jean-Noel Rochut, a preface and a brief history of the accordion in addition to instrumental instruction.

From Apples in Winter to The Wise Maid, this collection of Irish jigs, reels, and polkas provides beginning to advanced players with a wealth of traditional Irishmusic for solo keyboard accordion. This collection includes a number of tunes transcribed from recordings of not only the keyboard accordion, but also the Irish button box and concertina. Herein too are many of the author's own arrangements. Some of the stellar players whose work appears here are: Jimmy Keane, Phil Cunningham, Alan Kelly, Joe Burke, Jackie Daly, Tom Doherty, Chris Sherburn, Sharon Shannon, and Tony MacMahon. With a basic guide to fingering and rhythm chord symbols included, this book will allow even the novice accordionist to join in a traditional Irish session. The audio features the author's performance of medleys including 21 of the book's 100 selections. Includes access to online audio

This work explores a new sector: the jazz accordion. The accordion was just considered as a popular music instrument for many years and only recently it has got a -cultured- instrument, thanks to the institution in the Conservatory. In fact, thanks to its own expressive power and versatility, this instrument is played in every musical context: jazz, popular and classical music. The book is composed by 9 chapter and 240 pages and it's divided into three parts. The first one deals with the basic technique, by some articulation exercises on scales, arpeggios, finger independence, the thumb passage. The second section is about several topics in the functional harmony using the seventh chords in all theirs positions, the practice of II-V-I cadence, voicings, modes, peculiar scales. The last section consists of creative application to the learnt technical and theoretical knowledge, making the right performance and improvisation on standard jazz and blues.

This comprehensive method of music instruction enables the beginner to progress to an advanced stage of technical skill.

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