DG melodeon play-along practice session (beginner/improver)

[@paulyoungfolk]

1:19 - Shepherd's Hey 4:54 - Bear Dance 8:40 - Balance The Straw 12:18 - Old Tom Of Oxford 17:42 - Plane Tree 21:38 - Speed The Plough

[@sallypayton578]

Very good to play along with

[@peterpiperpicked4785]

I've now listened to the rest it just gets better and better !! thanks so much one day if I practice !!

[@peterpiperpicked4785]

Just love your inventive bass lines. they really lift a tune. 'thanks of the posting

[@asplenium177]

I learned « Bear dance » next year. I really prefer your way to play this « mélodie ». Merci pour cette version. Et pour les autres aussi. Simple, agréable. So sweet...

[@asplenium177]

Last year of course!

[@patrickj8425]

What a great video Paul, thank you so much for taking the time to do it, it is very much appreciated. Yes please for more of the same.

[@asplenium177]

Yes! Appreciated also from south of France.

[@hikmatshaya2586]

Awesome Playing ....

[@petercane6376]

I cannot help but notice you play some tunes with a definite Cajun flavour with the syncopation and twirls. Cajun is my favourite. I am sure you can do it. Can you please do a rip roaring yes haa Cajun tune for us? I would love to learn that. Pete

[@lis_jo_mcd858]

Great stuff Paul! 🙏 Not a beginner, but *always* learning! So much to learn from hearing you play x

[@paulyoungfolk]

Thanks very much! I enjoy your videos.

[@susangerofsky]

Thanks for this helpful play-along session! I’m trying to improve my melideon playing: to learn how to play chords on the off beat sometimes, and to learn some new ornamentation ideas. This is a great way to practice!

[@peterpiperpicked4785]

Really enjoyed your version of Shepherds Hey wonderful right now on to the rest !

[@christofferkiilerichjakobs8336]

Hi Paul! Thank you so much for this video - and all your other wonderful videos. If I ever make the decision to start playing the melodeon seriously, you're going to have played a substantial role in that. If you ever felt like doing more videos like this, I'd certainly love to see them. I don't remember the exact tune you played in another video I enjoyed equally as much - but you basically kept adding layers onto a simple tune, and that seems like a great format as well. Right now I'm just listening, but if I ever do start playing those would be very helpful as well. There's another thing as well - you've played some french tunes as well, and I know so little about that tradition and that music, and I find it difficult to find information about it - it's not as easy as with English and Irish music, for instance. That might be another thing to explore - tunes or similar in the Blowzabella-end of the spectrum. :) Either way, thanks for making these. They're fantastic.

[@OldWorldState]

Hi Paul, really enjoyed this and very useful for a beginner DG player to have a set of session tunes to build towards. I'd really like it if you could do a similar video of beginner DG Irish tunes in the same fashion. Thanks again, Henry

[@あるある-n6i]

I would love to see a GC version of this, or at least know what short list of beginner songs for GC you would play for a similar video.

[@beabloom5823]

Fantastic! I love this video and these songs! Thank you! Could you please do one on playing with the left hand on a D/G melodeon? My left hand and the concept of rhythm even is very foreign to me. I’m used to trying to pinpoint and copy the melody……but rhythm is new!

[@joesopeters]

I love this! Have u got any jigs that i can play on a CF melodeon?

[@ton-gle4137]

What a great idea. Thank you so much! I know the notes are widely available but would it be possible to get hold of notes with ‘tabs’ to indicate fingering etc?

[@tonyoldroyd]

Nice to hear these tunes played well. Some comments on the bass would be great, how to get that sparse sound.

[@JayNewberyy]

I think his recent video on bass for B/C could point you in the right direction re: varying your bass/chord technique

[@tonyoldroyd]

@@JayNewberyy Thanks, yes - that B/C video is just as applicable to D/G

[@davejellybean]

Excellent..thank you

[@mccypr]

Thanks! More of the same please maybe with a few Québécois and Cape Breton (similar style = simple) tunes. Happy New Year!!!😎✌️🌞🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂

[@edewolf3]

Thanks Paul, great Videos. What do you think about the dutch reversal tuning or the Belgium? Do you play ist also? Eddy

[@cliffburt6027]

Thanks for these Paul, two turns I’d love to learn on DG box are The Man In The Brown Hat, and Horizonto. May be a bit ambitious but I can dream. Happy new year to you.

[@ton-gle4137]

....also I wonder how long that strap is? My strap is at full length and I still can’t seem to rest it comfortably on my knee like this!

[@TheBackdraftTV]

thank you it helped me a lot

[@sekarenggal6305]

Brilliant! Many thanks.

[@Adam-wl8wn]

More of these please!

[@Skovkid]

what model melodeon is that ?

[@manuatzeni2210]

Ciao io mi chiamo manuel atzeni sono sardo appassionato anchio do organetto Sei un grande complimenti 👍👍

[@FiddlePlayer]

🙂

[@playandteach]

If you fancy doing the same with GC tunes, I'd be here like a shot.

[@paulyoungfolk]

It's on the to-do list.

[@Nrijder]

Yes please. Till that one comes I do enjoy watching this however. Still amazing content.