AMA Verlag Play Accordion Volume 2 - Haas - Accordion - Book/CD

The Performance and Method Book for Advanced Players

Author: Peter Michael Haas
Format: Book with CD
Instrumentation: Accordion
Level: Advanced

The second volume of "Play Accordion" for advanced players is not based on typical playing material, but on living examples of the world music genre. The motto of this book is "Music around the globe": Musette waltzes, Eastern European and Sirbas and Horas from the Jewish Klezmer repertoire, Tango, Afro-Cuban rhythms, Blues and Jazz are the main topic.

The chord knowledge on knobs and buttons is expanded and challenged through exercises and pieces in the basic jazz harmonies, the sense of rhythm will be increased through the basics of Rock, Blues and Swing and the syncopated accents of Latin music. A number of workshop-pieces with accompanied playback recordings will help improve the timing, give the opportunity to try small improvisations and be prepared for the interaction with other musicians. In other words: Once more a lot of new playing material with explanations and many exercises.

Contents:

• - Hello and welcome...
• - Chord Symbols and Bass Note Notation
• - Your Instrument
• ...and what you have to think about when playing
• - A Small Warm Up: Breathing Exercises
• - The Beguine Accompaniment
• - New Notation Symbols
• The Sign to Rest: the Fermata
• The Symbol for Breathing: the Breath Mark
• - Chromaticism
• - A New Articulation: Martellato
• Scale Fluency -- Legato and Martellato
• - Exercise: Double Stops (Sixths)
• - Workshop Piece No. 1 Roxy's Waltz
• 1. "One, Two, Three...": There's a Count Off
• 2. The Chord Sequence
• 3. The Melody
• 4. Chord Shenanigans
• The One Bar Repeat Sign
• 5. Roxy's Waltz -- the Entire Form
• - A Chapter on Harmony: Triads Built on the Steps of the Scale
• - A New Ornamentation: the Upper Mordent
• - Unfamiliar Sounds: Scales from Eastern Europe
• Finger Training: Slurring Double Stops (Thirds)
• - The "Drum Accompaniment"
• - New Rhythms: Odd Meters
• Changing Dynamics: Suddenly or Gradually?
• - Workshop Piece No. 2 -- Chanana's Rhythm
• - Anticipated Accents
• - Rhythm Exercise: Tapping and Clapping!
• - Melody vs. Rock Bass: New Rhythm Exercises
• - Finger Training: Double Stops
• Rolling Arpeggios
• - Eighth Note Triplets...
• - New Exercises for the Bellows
• "Bellows Shake"
• - The Dynamic Colon: the "Forte-Piano" with Crescendo
• - A New Articulation: Portato
• More Vivid Playing
• - The Hora Rhythm
• - Finger Training: Slurring Triads
• - Voicing Exercise
• - Workshop Piece No. 3 -- 6:30 Blues
• 1. The Chord Sequence: the Blues Form
• 2. The Blues Rhythm
• Simplified Notation of the Blues Rhythm
• Chorus 1: Rhythmic Motif
• Chorus 2: Melody Motif
• Dirty Tricks: Tremolo and Roll
• Chorus 3
• - Four Note Chords: a New World
• Expanded Notation for the Bass
• - From Impressionism to Jazz Harmony
• Major Chord with a Major Seventh: the Major 7 Chord
• Minor Chord with a Minor Seventh: the Minor 7 Chord
• - A New Sound Option -- Vibrato
• Quarter Note Triplets
• - Four Note Chord Extension: the Ninth
• The Major 7/9 Chord
• The Minor 7/9 Chord
• - A Chapter on Harmony: Four Note Chords Built on the Steps of the Scale
• - Overview of the Five Most Important Four Note Chord Types
• Typical Chord Progression -- the "II - V - I" Progression
• Tension Factor: the Circle Progression
• - "3 Against 2"
• Rhythm Exercise for Los Dos Cactussos
• - Finger Training: Four Note Chords
• - Rhythm Exercises for Hola, que tal!
• - A Preferred Collection of Notes for Improvisation -- the Blues Scale
• A Blues Scale Solo for Hola, que tal!
• - Four Note Chord Inversions
• Connecting Inversions
• - Workshop Piece No. 4 -- Merry Go Round
• 1. The Structure of the Piece
• 2. The Chords
• Rhythm: a Simple "Swing" Accompaniment
• 3. The Melody
• Swing Feeling: the Thing Is How Much "Swing"
• Chorus 1: Chords in Rhythm
• Chorus 2: from the Chord to the Melody
• - "3 - 3 - 2" -- the Rumba Rhythm
• - The Half Diminished Chord
• - The Bossa Nova Rhythm
• - New Chord -- Cm6
• - Workshop Piece No. 5 -- Tribute to Astor
• The Structure of the Piece
• Cue Notes
• - A New Rhythmic Element: N-Tuplets
• - Rhythm Exercise for Ipanema Boy
• - Timelessly Sad Sounds -- the "Doina"