C#/D box: Back to Basics 1 - bellows bounce, beats and accents

[@bonenfant96]

Well, ça marche. C'est les seuls conseils qui ont réussi à me faire jouer plus doux. Enfin ! Merci mil fois Stiamh.

[@AndreusMcH]

Merci à vous, cher ami.

[@Stiamh]

Il n'y a pas de quoi. :-)

[@BenjaminHockenberry]

I'm looking forward to more of these "back to basics" videos!

[@donatkinson5405]

Thanks Steve - very helpful!

[@dmacseain]

grma Steve. Indeed, how truly happy future festivities will be! I like your "glorified accordion" comment. I'm 7 months into my first box, a one row Hohner D, LMM. I know the C#D is next step, but no hurry... 2022 maybe. Lots to enjoy working on still, like bellows. :)

[@diatoforever]

Thanks a million Steve!

[@bonenfant96]

This lesson is awesome for me, because that is exactly where my accordion bounce. Thanks.

[@bazzermn]

The challenge for me is that the bellows end up further apart each direction when you start adding the basses..

[@Stiamh]

I totally understand. Playing the basses lighter or shorter might help, but in the end the air button is your saviour.

[@bazzermn]

@@Stiamh thank you - that is good advice. In my keenness to get the basses added to the tune I often forget that the treble is what carries it and where most my attention should be. I am learning that the art of the basses in Irish button accordion is minimalism. Tony McMahon was a fine example.

[@helenloftus7979]

Great Steve, thank you! Any good exercises for playing bass?

[@Stiamh]

Thanks, Helen! Not really... the closest thing you'll find to an exercise is in this video, where I talk about how to get into the groove of hitting the chord on the off-beat: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKWsgI2wrNt6asU Other clips exploring using the basses: Polkas: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g57ImX2pgd-UiLs Simple jig: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHbHeZSdeLGEhJo Waltz: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppfLgGuqqLClqtE And this is a more detailed clip on how you might tackle the basses in the reel Drowsy Maggie: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eorcp4hsfdt4fdE Let me know if these are helpful. Steve

[@pipelinemusic2075]

Hi Steve, I just want to say thank you! Your videos are great. Not even for C#/D players but also for me as a G/C box player who begins to explore irish tunes! Next year I'll join the C#/D fraction, not at least because of your videos ;) Is there a possibility you can do a video for the slipjig "Na Ceannabhain Bhana"? I know this tune from a Tony MacMahon recording and I love the feeling and drive of this tune.

[@Stiamh]

Na Ceannabhain Bhana is "in the pipeline" - hope to do it this week. If it's not too late!

[@pipelinemusic2075]

@@Stiamh would be great!

[@MatthewZmusician209]

My fellow squeeze box player, have you ever tires playing italian music on the irish style accordion? like their organetto music and terentellas?

[@Stiamh]

Salve Matthew. I haven't.... in the next life, maybe. Have you?

[@bonenfant96]

Yes.

[@bonenfant96]

Am I the only one who needed this ?

[@Stiamh]

I don't think so Robert. But many watch and few comment!

[@jhohlkennedy]

@@Stiamh I do!

[@diatoforever]

Practicing as we speak...

[@ccemhaighnuad]

go hiontach!

[@bonenfant96]

C'est qui le bel homme dans la foret :)

[@Stiamh]

Bel homme? Mets donc tes lunettes mon ami!