French Music for Accordion

When not playing in the leading hotels, restaurants and ballrooms across the Midwest, he teaches and arranges music for the accordion. . Louis, Missouri, Larry Hallar has played the accordion for 45 years. A native of St

good collection of French accordion stuff Frugal French Music for Accordion, Vol. 2 is a nice collection of 31 pieces of French accordion music. It offers several different styles: waltzes, tangos, mazurkas, a march or two, polkas. The pieces vary in level of difficulty, from a few fairly simple waltzes to more complicated arrangements with 4-note jazzy chords in the right hand. (Sometimes the right-hand chords are a bit too full for my taste.) The arrangements are very much like those in the first volume.Thirteen of the pieces are waltzes or mazurkas in 3/4 time. Fortunately there are not many “paso dobles.” The tangos are s. "A Great Collection for Intermediate Players" according to jonathan. In a classic case of my eyes being bigger than my stomach, I purchased this book during a buying binge of sheet music, assuming I would be able to blow through these songs in a bout of musical cosmic inflation. I had been playing for a few months, and my confidence was brimming over along with my credit card balance.Alas, this is a great songbook, but not necessarily for beginners. There needs to be a fair amount of dexterity with playing melody chords and reading difficult key changes. I was able to simplify a number of the pieces by mentally excluding some of the harder harmonies, but it. good anthology of French stuff My skill level is probably plain old "intermediate"--andthis colors what I have to say about this book.I have been very pleased with this anthology. It hasbecome some of my favorite accordion music to play.First thing I did was to photocopy, cut and pasteso that there would be no awkward page turns.Print is large and legible, easy to read.There are a few editorial errors, but you'llhear those and correct them.What I like best about the book:1) offers good variety of forms: paso dobles, waltzes, tangos, polkas;2) there is a range of difficulty, but the pieces are mostly intermediate-level*;

These are wonderful solo pieces for any accordionist, and convey the lyrical beauty and romance characteristic of the genre.. Larry Hallar has artfully crafted keyboard accordion solo arrangements from 25 favorite French musette compositions. One of the most melodic and romantic genres of music is that found on the streets of Paris as played on the musette

. About the Author A native of St. When not playing in the leading hotels, restaurants and ballrooms across the Midwest, he teaches and arranges music for the accordion. Louis, Missouri, Larry Hallar has played the accordion for 45 years