Left hand bass technique, as seen in Falling Slowly tutorial

[prufane]

Great videos - thank you very much - if you don' t know what to post next ;-) how about some blues patterns for the left hand - i have no idea what to do when improvising over the scales with my right hand cheers ben

[junior17medval]

How do you know so much? Did you go to school or self taught? and if you did go to school, where?

[Boteris]

hey, very need TALIJANSKA tutorial. Can you do it? : /

[acordeonhobby]

Uste esta haciendo un trabajo muy interesante, realmente muy bueno, lo relicito por este gran trabajo.

saludos desde Argentina

Jose

[Nisseify]

Hey could you make a how to for the love theme from the godfather, that would be awesome :)



[ialsked]

Hello

I have a question about this legato technique. When I try to do it, I only hear the sound of the bass and there is no melody even if I push the buttons really hard. (Hope I could describe it well)

Is this about the quality of the accordion (which mine isn't that high) or I just don't know how to do it?

[moshezuchter]

@ialsked Hmm. Perhaps there isn't enough *air* to get sound out? Does this happen when you press just one button on the bass side and a button on the keyboard side? Or just when you press multiple buttons on the bass side? I would try and see when the sound disappears and gradually work on getting a sound, if even a quiet one.

[JoeTierno]

Ok, I'll give it a try. By the way, if you come across any training videos for chromatic accordions, please forward to joetierno@yahoo.com. I've not had much success. Regards, Joe

[JoeTierno]

I love your videos and find them very usfeul; excellent explanation, video quality showing finger placement is the best I've seen. It would be very helpful if you could provide a link or somehow send the sheet music. This tune would be excellent for a beginner like me but I need to read the notes. Can you help?

Thanks, Joe

Rochester, NY

[moshezuchter]

@JoeTierno Hey Joe, I don't have the sheet music to any of these songs, I just play them by ear. I agree that it'd be beneficial to somehow transcribe them, though I don't write music.

If you'd like I've made a tutorial video showing each note that I play. You can find it on my channel (click my user name, underneath the video name) and do a search for "Falling Slowly".

Let me know if you have any questions afterwards. Thanks.

[drag0nfig0]

@moshezuchter I was wondering about playing by ear...Is it possible to develop that skill, or you are just born with it? I find it very difficult to pick up even the simplest melodies and don't really see an optimal way to improve that.

And sheet music just terrifies me...

[moshezuchter]

@drag0nfig0 Hey, I'm fairly certain that like most things in life, it's something that gets easier with practice. I remember doing exercises where someone would play a few notes in succession without me looking at the piano (something easy like C, D, F, E) and then I would have to replicate their notes as they played them.

I believe they are called "ear training exercises". It works with rhythms, too, where someone plays a rhythm, and you need to clap the rhythm back.

[vutEwa]

thats a real nice sounding accordion there. though I do like that white one too.

[TheMrPel02]

oh, interesting