Playing Chromatic Accordion

Bayan Transcriptions I van Adamovich Yashkevich ( Яашкавич) (born in 1923) has published several popular transcriptions of music for baya...

Smoothness in Performance A listener can judge smoothness in performance better than a performer, who is busy performing. So, record ...

Four Fingers are Better than Three Given the fingers (thumb as 1 and fingers 2, 3, 4, and 5), fingers 2, 3, and 4 are the primary finge...

What is Classical Style Classical style involves the breadth and depth of: an instrument technique expression touch sound quality...

Four plus Three When common time, 4/4, becomes just too common      and waltz time, 3/4, is just boom-chuck-chuck,       then put the...

The Approach As discussed in the previous post, playing across the keyboard encourages thinking about Intervals  -- half step, whole s...

An Approach to Practice Five rows across, five buttons down for an octave, and five fingers. As you progress from using three fingers on ...