Below is the Contents page from THE CONCERTINA DIARIES.
The introductory chapters cover many aspects of the Anglo concertina, including:
- How/why I came to write this manual
- Practicalities such as holding the concertina
- Different types and makes of concertina
- Some modern makers; buying an Anglo
- Different concertina layouts: charts showing button/note
layouts for Wheatstone and Jeffries type concertinas, and
notes on other layouts you may encounter
- Key principles to bear in mind when learning to play
- An introduction to the simple concertina notation used
- Etc., etc...
Note that each book now comes with a CD included (contained in a clear PVC wallet on the inside back cover. The CD contains all 47 tunes taught in the manual, played slowly on concertina, so that you can (a) hear how each tune should sound (especially useful if you don't read standard musical notation), and (b) play along as you learn.
THE CONCERTINA DIARIES:
LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF THE CONCERTINA
CONTENTS
Page
Acknowledgements
PRELIMINARIES AND PRACTICALITIES 1
Ch. One: Introduction – How this all came about 3
Ch.Two: Things you should know at the outset 7
Ch. Three: Concertina layouts – your own and others’ 17
BASIC TUNES (BUT WITH NON-BASIC TECHNIQUES!) 25
Ch. Four: Core tunes for this method 27
Ch. Five “Are we there yet?” 58
TUNES TO BUILD ON WHAT YOU’VE DONE SO FAR 60
Ch. Six “Conversation practice”: More tunes based on lessons
from Ch Four 60
“FINGER-WORK”: TUNES TO EXTEND YOUR RANGE 75
Ch. Seven Tunes to extend your range 78
Ch. Eight A tiny introduction to the key of A Major 97
Ch. Nine Some caveats; and finally some notes on scales 101
Ch Ten "So are we there yet; and if not, where are we, and
where do we go, and how?" 105
ERRORS AND FEEDBACK 106
APPENDIX A: List of possible sets from the tunes in this manual ii
APPENDIX B: The structure of Irish traditional tunes iii
APPENDIX C: Notes on Notes: A Tiny Lesson In Reading Music
(From Ten Years Of
Tunes,
Mary Lovett & Heather Greer, 2013) iv
REFERENCES xi
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF TUNES xii