Easy Anglo 1-2-3: A Beginner's Guide to the Anglo Concertina
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For beginners on the Anglo concertina, this book includes 35 tunes in easy-to-learn tablature. Starting off with simple tunes on 1-row, then tunes for 2-row 20-button instruments and finally tunes for 30-button Anglos. Single note, harmonica, octave, harmonic and Irish styles are presented with the same simple tablature system used in the author's other books to show which buttons to play along with the melody in standard musical notation. THE TUNES: An Mhaighdean Mhara, The Ash Grove, Aura Lea (Love Me Tender), Ballydesmond Polka #3, Blue-Eyed Stranger, Boys of Bluehill, Flow Gently Sweet Afton, Flowers of Edinburgh, Frere Jacques, In the Bleak Midwinter, The Irish Washerwoman, Jacob’s Well, The Japanese Polka, Ladies of Pleasure, The Man in the Moon, Mr. Punch, Nancy, The New Chatham Hornpipe, O’Carolan’s Concerto, Off She Goes, Off to California, Oh! Susanna, Out on the Ocean, Over the Waterfall, Peg Ryan’s Polka, Rickett’s Hornpipe, The Rights of Man, Sailor’s Hornpipe, The Sweetness of Mary, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Walter Bulwer’s #1, Weeping Sad and Lonely, When the Roll is Called Up Yonder, William & Nancy, Ye Banks and Braes. Review: The one to get if you're just starting out - So you've acquired a concertina and are trying to decide which beginner's book to buy. Without having the books in front of you, it might be difficult figuring out which intro anglo concertina book is the best choice. This is a solid, well-written book, and all the other ones are comparatively terrible for one reason or another. For the sake of comparison: Mick Bramich's Absolute Beginners' Concertina-- Seems to use a bizarre tab system, is REALLY short, and seems to waste a lot of time on information that would have been useful when it was published but now can be easily found on wikipedia. Bob Kail's Best Concertina Method Yet-- as others have stated, this is a very bare bones collection of songs and exercises. It's cheap and would be a great SUPPLEMENT to Coover's book, but don't make it your primary. Mel Bay's Deluxe Concertina Book by Frank Converse-- this has all the problems that old school Mel Bay methods tend to have (too long on simple tunes, boring tunes, very little explanation for anything tricky written with the assumption you'll have a teacher, etc) with none of the benefits (being comprehensive). Like Kail's book, it would be worth playing through when you've completed Coover's book (there are some interesting chord-heavy pieces in the back), but this is a rough place to start. In contrast to all of the above, Coover's book has easy to read, modern diagrams, lots of explanation without being overly patronizing, and covers considerably more ground than the other books. It's the only one of the books I've mentioned here that covers the top row of the 30 button. It seems like every concertina book uses its own variation on tab, so at least Coover's book is easy to read! If you can already read music and have played another instrument, it's mostly just a matter of getting used to the layout (major triad on push, other notes on pull...) and Coover's tab is supportive and doesn't seem like something you'll become dependent on. Get this one first, and then skim the other ones when you're done with it. Review: Buy this book! - I would love to give this book more stars! I bought my concertina recently and was using a different beginners method which involved a very different philosophy. To be honest, it seemed confusing and illogical. As a piano and lever harp player, I was surprised that it was so difficult to pick up this instrument. Gary Coover’s book has done so much to increase my understanding! You’ll be playing familiar tunes and even chords from the start. Highly recommended!
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R**N
The one to get if you're just starting out
So you've acquired a concertina and are trying to decide which beginner's book to buy. Without having the books in front of you, it might be difficult figuring out which intro anglo concertina book is the best choice. This is a solid, well-written book, and all the other ones are comparatively terrible for one reason or another. For the sake of comparison: Mick Bramich's Absolute Beginners' Concertina-- Seems to use a bizarre tab system, is REALLY short, and seems to waste a lot of time on information that would have been useful when it was published but now can be easily found on wikipedia. Bob Kail's Best Concertina Method Yet-- as others have stated, this is a very bare bones collection of songs and exercises. It's cheap and would be a great SUPPLEMENT to Coover's book, but don't make it your primary. Mel Bay's Deluxe Concertina Book by Frank Converse-- this has all the problems that old school Mel Bay methods tend to have (too long on simple tunes, boring tunes, very little explanation for anything tricky written with the assumption you'll have a teacher, etc) with none of the benefits (being comprehensive). Like Kail's book, it would be worth playing through when you've completed Coover's book (there are some interesting chord-heavy pieces in the back), but this is a rough place to start. In contrast to all of the above, Coover's book has easy to read, modern diagrams, lots of explanation without being overly patronizing, and covers considerably more ground than the other books. It's the only one of the books I've mentioned here that covers the top row of the 30 button. It seems like every concertina book uses its own variation on tab, so at least Coover's book is easy to read! If you can already read music and have played another instrument, it's mostly just a matter of getting used to the layout (major triad on push, other notes on pull...) and Coover's tab is supportive and doesn't seem like something you'll become dependent on. Get this one first, and then skim the other ones when you're done with it.
L**A
Buy this book!
I would love to give this book more stars! I bought my concertina recently and was using a different beginners method which involved a very different philosophy. To be honest, it seemed confusing and illogical. As a piano and lever harp player, I was surprised that it was so difficult to pick up this instrument. Gary Coover’s book has done so much to increase my understanding! You’ll be playing familiar tunes and even chords from the start. Highly recommended!
N**.
Easy to read, author was fairly active on concertina forum as well!
I have zero musical talent, but was always interested in picking up an instrument. Admittedly I chose the concertina because I really liked the sounds and a character from one of my favorite videogames plays something very close to it. I still have a lot to learn, and it takes lots of practice, but this book has been a huge help and is usable even if you have no prior musical knowledge! As an added bonus, the author has been pretty active on one of the main Concertina forum websites, and seems very willing to help other players with questions and requests for help.
C**.
Good book.
Only time will tell how well I can learn from this book. Practice Practice!
S**H
May be the best beginner book ever!
Received in a bundle with Gary's book pirate songs. I like the way the book is sectioned into the different types of Concertina , the history of the instrument and different types. Book is laid out in same way as Pirate Songs , melody, tab, and fingering diagram. I highly recommend these books
P**S
Love this book!
I completely love this book. I ordered several beginner books and this is definitely my favorite. I like that the book is set up learning songs on one row, then two rows, then all three. I find Mr. Coover’s tablature easy to follow. It has been very helpful in my learning the songs. The QR code’s to videos of some of the songs are fun. I heartily recommend this book.
M**A
Already started playing a few tunes!
We picked up an anglo concertina at a thrift shop on a lark and I spent a ton of time on the internet trying to find sources for how to play it. There's just not a lot out there! Finally I stumbled upon this book and it's really great! I'm already able to play a few of the tunes! The text is easy to understand and the way the music is written makes it easy to connect the buttons and push/pull directions with the music on the staff. Wonderful resource for beginners!
R**S
Great book
I bought several of these. Good book, easy to follow, would recommend to anyone who wants to learn the basics.
J**O
Amazing book for beginners
Gary Coover does some good work for the concertina community. This book is perfect for a beginner such as myself to progressively get accustomed to the concertina and the tab format is very simple and useful to me. As well, the QR code links to youtube videos showing Gary playing the songs are brilliant.
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入門に最適
定評のある著者ですが、なるほど入門に最適と思います。10ボタン、20ボタン、30ボタンのコンサーティーナを順を追って解説しており、練習曲も左手、右手、コードと全体的にうまく編集できています。
O**A
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G**O
Easy Anglo 1-2-3: A Beginner's Guide to the Anglo Concertina
La parte tecnica è insufficiente. Niente in più di quanto si trova su parecchi siti (a gratis). Solo con questo manuale la vedo dura gestire lo strumento in modo accettabile. Per la parte degli spartiti niente di speciale. Si trova molto molto di più in rete sempre gratuito.
C**N
Probably the best starter book for anglo concertina.
I have several books for beginners on anglo concertina (Colin Sherbourne, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne) but find this to be easily the best. It goes gradually without being patronisingly simple and has a clear system of notation and introduces chords gradually. The other books mentioned have either a complicated notation and/or introduce alternative fingering too soon. I would suggest Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne's book as a second book to review and develop on Gary Coover's book. Coover has also written books on the concertina playing of well-known concertinists such as John Kirkpatrick and Scan Tester. The concertina is a fascinating instrument, very portable and capable of different genres (the English concertina is known as a classical instrument as well as more folky pieces.) The only drawback is the cost - they are not cheap (approaching £1000 for quality!)
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