Hi there ... I expect it might feel foreign to begin with ... but stick with it. Try to relax your hands, use your arms, lift your elbows. It should come with practice. Having said that, my wife just cannot get the hang of using the bellows and struggling to play notes at the same time. Let's hope you're more successful than her ;)
Hi, it looks like all the post are several years old. I hope you can respond. I have just purchased an English concertina and I am grateful for your tutorials. I am experiencing on difficulty and that is isn opening and closing the instrument to get the sound. (the pulling and pushing) feels difficult and foreign. My hands/fingers get fatigue. Any tips on the action and ease of pushing and pulling?
You haven't mentioned it, but it would appear that you are alternating notes from one hand to the other. Is that right? Thanks for a fabulous set of videos, this is a real gift!!!
Yes ... but you have no choice because on one end you will find c, e, g, b, etc and on the other you have the intermediate notes of that octave scale d, f, a, and the c at the top of that octave. Does that help? In other words you HAVE to alternate ends to play a scale.
Hi ... you pull and push but get the same note on each button ... the anglo concertina is like a melodeon with different notes on push and pull Regards Martyn
Hey you're very welcome ... it's a good tune for getting the fingers moving up and down the scale AND for ear training ... i.e. recognising the position of a note within a scale :) Regards Martyn
so passionate you even ignore the phone^^ all great lessons!
cannabudsguru 1 week ago
@cannabudsguru Thanks for the kind comments ... glad you're finding the videos helpful !
nytram1309 1 week ago
Hi there ... I expect it might feel foreign to begin with ... but stick with it. Try to relax your hands, use your arms, lift your elbows. It should come with practice. Having said that, my wife just cannot get the hang of using the bellows and struggling to play notes at the same time. Let's hope you're more successful than her ;)
nytram1309 11 months ago
Hi, it looks like all the post are several years old. I hope you can respond. I have just purchased an English concertina and I am grateful for your tutorials. I am experiencing on difficulty and that is isn opening and closing the instrument to get the sound. (the pulling and pushing) feels difficult and foreign. My hands/fingers get fatigue. Any tips on the action and ease of pushing and pulling?
1marikac 11 months ago
You haven't mentioned it, but it would appear that you are alternating notes from one hand to the other. Is that right? Thanks for a fabulous set of videos, this is a real gift!!!
monelleny 3 years ago
Yes ... but you have no choice because on one end you will find c, e, g, b, etc and on the other you have the intermediate notes of that octave scale d, f, a, and the c at the top of that octave. Does that help? In other words you HAVE to alternate ends to play a scale.
nytram1309 3 years ago
Hi ... you pull and push but get the same note on each button ... the anglo concertina is like a melodeon with different notes on push and pull Regards Martyn
nytram1309 4 years ago
Like it thanks. I'll have to work on that 3 blind mice.
morganjj 4 years ago
Hey you're very welcome ... it's a good tune for getting the fingers moving up and down the scale AND for ear training ... i.e. recognising the position of a note within a scale :) Regards Martyn
nytram1309 4 years ago
thanks Martyn very good as usual i love your concertina , looking froward to lesson 7
brcp4321 5 years ago