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Thanks for the feedback, David! I inherited a couple Sedlon method books recently, but haven’t spent much time with them. I’ve never appreciated the advantage (or disadvantage) of either approach, but if it matters to you, I shoudl mention that the Sedlon Method is guilty of this. In recent years, I’ve heard some players criticize any method which instructs in the usage of the middle finger (rather than the ring finger) for playing fundamental bass notes.
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Apparently, at some point, the Sedlon method fell out of fashion beause it is no longer being published–though I notice that Charles Nunzio carries many Sedlon volumes on his website, and used copies of the Sedlon Accordion Method, as well as the supplemental series “Entertaining With The Accordion” are generally available on the Internet, particularly via ebay. I don’t know how Sedlon compares with the Palmer/Hughes method it may well be that Palmer/Hughes uses a much different method. I would get bored just doing practice exercises, but the Sedlon method was very effective in the way that it integrated practice material into actual songs So that, for the most part, one was always learning new songs, rather than endlessly practicing only scales, arpeggios, and chords, etc.
It was a solid method that worked well–at least for my brother and me.
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I learned how to play using the Sedlon Accordion Method. It begins as if the reader has a 12 bass, and moves on to more buttons at the en d of the book. It does NOT assume you know how to read music. I usualy have this book in stock, it is imported.
In the back of the book it gets into playing augmented 5th and major 9th on the dominant, among other things on the bass side. It does assume you know how to read music.
Even has photos of a disassembled accordion with identification of the parts. Has tunes and exercises in a good progression. It has a pull out chart ,bass and keyboard. One of the only books I know of in english (in print) that does chromatic (C system) 217 pages. Anzaghi’sĬomplete method, theoretical-practical progressive for accordion. Im a bare bones beginner myself – never touched an accordion till this past November and still pluggin away at least 2 hrs a day :)īTW this site is ALSO a great source of inspiration if you do still need some outside help with discipline and desire :)Ī really good book I ran across is L.O. Professor Louies’ rock and blues accordion I would also recommend a few DVDs 2 by Debra Peters – which can be ordered from her website Īnd another that was mentioned here at this site a month or so ago One is from Alfreds Publishing : Miriam Davidson ‘teach yourself accordion’ has a CD included with all material covered – the other is a Mel Bay : ‘you can teach yourself accordion’ it too has a CD with it.Īs to the demand for discipline and practise – if you really want to learn then you don’t NEED to have someone else drive you to pick up the instrument and work at it daily – if it takes someone else to make you want to then you didnt really have the want too’s bad enough anyway :P I don’t think I could even find another accordion PLAYER within a hundred miles or so – I would recommend two books that I am having real success with. small farm based community in an agricultural area of central Ky.
I live in an area where getting a teacher is an impossibility…. Get yourself a good teacher and you will be very happy. Learning yourself can be very boring because there is no demand for discipline and practice. The book is not as important as the teacher.