The Best Concertina Method Yet
by Bob Kail

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• ISBN13: 9780825653681
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Book Review: The Best Concertina Method Yet, Not.
Summary: 1 Stars

Anyway, not all the failings are admitted. Only inside do we learn that the book is for the 20-key ?German or Anglo-Saxon instrument? (actually the Anglo-German or ?Anglo?) only, and the existence of other types of concertina is barely conceded.

Basically it?s just a few instructional pages, including one of ?Elementary Music Principles?, padded out with sixty-odd pages of standard tunes. The instruction is rudimentary with very little on harmonies and chords and nothing on fingering technique. Nothing on method, in fact, despite the title. Only three songs are presented with chords - Tavern in the Town, O Sole Mio and The Cruel war is Raging - and all are in major keys, as are the extremely restricted left hand exercises.

Of the tunes, few are concertina tunes as normally played. There are few jigs or reels but a lot of songs and slow stuff that would be best harmonised. Would anyone want to play ?The Entertainer? melody only? No-one would ever want to listen to it, that?s for sure. Some tunes, such as The Battle Hymn of the Republic, are in twice which again suggests that this is just a couple of half-helpful pages lazily stuck onto an existing melody compilation

The book will be of help to an absolute beginner who can?t get anything else.

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