Anglo Concertina in the Harmonic Style - Paperback

by Gary Coover (Author)

Have you always wanted to play the 30-button Anglo concertina with more than just a simple one-note melody? This tutor will teach you how to play with chords and full harmonies in a wide variety of musical styles.The book includes 60 tunes with full chords and increasingly complex arrangements, many with QR code links to videos. The tablature system presented here is the easiest to understand and play.

In addition to tunes and exercises for beginning players, this tutor also presents more difficult tunes that have been carefully transcribed from recordings of the top Anglo concertina players of the last several decades.The playing of William Kimber, John Kirkpatrick, Jody Kruskal, Bertram Levy, Kenneth N.J. Loveless, Brian Peters, Andy Turner, John Watcham and many others are showcased to help you learn and develop your own unique style on this surprisingly versatile acoustic little squeezebox.

THE TUNES:
Accordion Tune, Adieu My Lovely Nancy, Ash Grove, Auld Lang Syne, The Beaver, Burchard's Hornpipe, Black Joker, Bobbing Joe, Brides March, Charabanc Schottische, Country Gardens, Country Gardens (Kimber), Cuckoo's Nest, Eastwell Park, Elk River Blues, Fair Play, Fieldtown Processional, Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss, For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name, Fruits & Flowers, Greensleeves, Hanged I Shall Be, Hard Times Come Again No More, Herrington Hall, In Plenty and In Time of Need, Kennington Jig, King George III's Minuet, Leaping Jack, Lumps of Plum Pudding, Michael Turner's Waltz, Minstrel Boy, Monck's March, The Moon Knows My Heart, The Song from Moulin Rouge, Ned of the Hill, New Rigged Ship, Newcastle, Nutting Girl, Nymph, Oh! Susanna, Old & Lost Hornpipe, Old Molly Oxford, Over the Rainbow, Packington's Pound, Parson's Farewell, Petal of Spice, Pomp & Circumstance, Poor Orphan (Armes Waisenkind), Rigs of Marlow, Shepherd's Hey, St. James Infirmary, Star Spangled Banner (Hewitt), Swaggering Boney, Sweet Sorrow, Trumpet Tune in D (Clarke), Waltz Across Texas, Will Kipper's Waltz, Winster Processional, You Are All I Have, Young Collins.

Author Biography

Gary Coover has been playing concertina ever since finding a cheap dusty model in a music store many years ago. He now plays several different types of concertina, including Anglo, English and Jeffries Duet. He was the host and producer of the "Shepherd's Hey" radio program for over 15 years, and was a founding member of The Four Bricks out of Hadrian's Wall folkrock band and the Men of Houston Morris Team. Gary has spent the last several years teaching and transcribing tunes for Anglo concertina, and is one of the organizers of the Old Palestine Concertina Weekend in East Texas.