Thanks! My mom's long term boyfriend, who also plays the accordion, gave mine to me as a gift (totally unprompted) about a year ago, and I just started trying to figure things out on my own. I have a harder time understanding music through theory than through practice.
I still don't really know what I'm doing, but slowly I'm understanding more and more.
It seems like finding a good accordion and maintaining it is just as hard as playing it though. They just aren't really made anymore.
And the ones that are are pretty expensive. I'm sure you could import a pretty nice one and it would be awesome, but it would also cost both testicles and a kidney.
Aw man, that part where I have to stop breaks my heart. I found out that was actually a problem with one of the reeds that only sounded wrong with the right combination of certain other notes and pushing or pulling. Oh well. Fixed it now! That green background looks amazing!
Good to hear that thing is fixed. That was a hell of a show, either way, though. So how do you go about learning to play an accordion? Did you take lessons or just sort of figure it out? I've been wanting to pick it up since I was like 12.
Thanks! My mom's long term boyfriend, who also plays the accordion, gave mine to me as a gift (totally unprompted) about a year ago, and I just started trying to figure things out on my own. I have a harder time understanding music through theory than through practice.
I still don't really know what I'm doing, but slowly I'm understanding more and more.
It seems like finding a good accordion and maintaining it is just as hard as playing it though. They just aren't really made anymore.
screamingatamall 3 years ago
And the ones that are are pretty expensive. I'm sure you could import a pretty nice one and it would be awesome, but it would also cost both testicles and a kidney.
thesoup 3 years ago
Aw man, that part where I have to stop breaks my heart. I found out that was actually a problem with one of the reeds that only sounded wrong with the right combination of certain other notes and pushing or pulling. Oh well. Fixed it now! That green background looks amazing!
screamingatamall 3 years ago
Good to hear that thing is fixed. That was a hell of a show, either way, though. So how do you go about learning to play an accordion? Did you take lessons or just sort of figure it out? I've been wanting to pick it up since I was like 12.
thesoup 3 years ago