2009-05-02 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - US School of Music (USSM) Home Study Course, Lesson 11 for Accordion Accordéon Acordeón Accordian Akkordeon Akordeon Harmonika Fisarmonica Acordeão Акордеон Аккордеон

This is another one of those cases when the title of a practice piece leads you to dismiss it as trivial, and perhaps decide that it is not worth doing. But that would be a mistake. This practice piece contains several important skill building exercises.

Since Lesson 10 presented the standard register buttons on the accordion, it's no surprise that this lesson expects you to perform a switch change on-the-fly while playing. In addition, this piece provides further practice with those ever important 7th chords. Since the 7th chord buttons are further away from the bass note buttons, I tend to miss them more often. I therefore need such practice. Measures 9 to 12 required me to change from C Major to G7 each measure, back and forth, which you can see me do as I change between my third and my second fingers. Finally, this piece required me to move my hand up the keyboard the standard distance of an octave, which is a very important skill that needs to be constantly repeated to be retained.

My recently posted videos were of more exciting pieces for a beginner at my level. However, I must be careful not to put all my effort into exciting pieces at the expense of neglecting basic skill exercises like this one. Without basic skills each performance piece becomes more and more difficult to learn, eventually overwhelming me. By posting this video I encourage myself to spend sufficient time on the less exciting but necessary practice pieces that help build solid skill.

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Music

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• ACCORDION
• ACCORDÉON
• ACORDEÓN
• ACCORDIAN
• AKKORDEON
• AKORDEON
• HARMONIKA
• FISARMONICA
• ACORDEÃO
• АКОРДЕОН
• АККОРДЕОН

[Luna2tictac]

Twinkle is my name :$

[myaccordionhistory]

@Luna2tictac You have a wonderful name. Now I will always think of you when I hear Mozart's "Twelve Variations on Ah vous dirai-je, Maman".

Leon

[edwinmcc]

How many hours do you practice per day ?? It will be a vital information. How you start & end the practice ??

--Edwin.

[myaccordionhistory]

I practice about 4 hours per day. I start with about 15 minute warmup on a very familiar piece, like "The Caissons" on page 10 of Palmer Hughes Book 2, or similar. Then, I play about 45 minutes new pieces that I am trying to master. After rest I play about two hours recent pieces. Some I have already made videos of. Others I play well but I am trying to improve in order to make a video. Finally, after rest I play about one hour on new pieces again. Does this information help?

[tazmila]

bravo !! vous progressez bien !

[myaccordionhistory]

Merci, mon ami.

[311korn]

Nice, accurate playing. This series of videos is a great service to others out there trying to learn. I've been looking for an accordion instructor for a month without success. I have decided to buy the courses that you are using and work from them and your videos. Thank you.

[Luna2tictac]

@myaccordionhistory haha :$ thank you.

[myaccordionhistory]

Thank you again for your continuing support. I hope you are making your way at your own natural pace with all the material that I know you have recently obtained. I admit that the first book of Palmer Hughes isn't exactly our favorite music. But you must admit, it does effectively build skill. And before we can play whatever music we both love, we must build basic skill. When you get tired of nursery rhymes, try the Bluebird Waltz from Lesson 5 of the USSM.

[macsalvi]

I'm very happy to hear that there are more and more people joining this channel to start their careers in accordion through the inestimable help of this videos. Again it is very impresive to watch your learning curve and how you are able to produce videos almost everyday.

In this song is very remarcable the new way to work with the Bass section... I love it! Good job!

[myaccordionhistory]

I'm glad to hear that my videos are meeting one of their intended needs, which is to act as an incentive guide for others learning on their own from standard method books. The other intention is for me to learn the accordion myself. To meet both needs I do try to play each piece as accurately as possible. Hopefully I do it right most of the time. Be sure to watch a lot of YouTube accordion videos to see how intermediate and advanced players do it. Above all, have fun with your musical adventure.