Accordion

I always liked the idea of playing the accordion. I don't know what it was, exactly, which attracted me to the instrument. I guess I always liked the idea of being a little bit different, and there was something about the sound of that machine which always kinda touched me. Like a childhood I never had. As if knowing how to play that strange instrument would unlock something inside me I didn't yet know about.

It wasn't that long ago that I remembered all this as I was browsing a car boot sale. Stuck at the back of a pile of old records, a train set and a box of dolls there was this pile of bellows and keys which it took me a few seconds to recognise as an accordion. The young girl whose sale it was didn't know much about it and said she was just clearing out her family house. She didn't want much for it and I didn't care much if it worked or not because now, at last, I was going to own an accordion. I felt like I'd discovered some great but lost work of art.

Of course, when I got it home I couldn't resist trying it out, and when I played with it for the first time all those dreams came flooding back: I had to learn to play this wonderful instrument. But how?

First I checked out the local yellow pages and telephone directories, but nothing. No one anywhere near me taught accordion. I tried the local colleges but drew a blank again; not much call for that, they all said. I wondered how it was that I was the only person in the area who had an interest in this marvellous instrument. IU browsed all the local bookshops but found very little, the most I could find were books of musical scores put together with small how-to articles between the music. I needed more than this.

The internet was the best resource; there are some excellent sites with lots of information on them, about the great players, some music downloads and books, but still I couldn't find anything close to what I needed - a course of instruction on how to play the accordion.

Finally I came across Enzo Giribaldi's Accordion Course For Beginners. It's a completely downloadable course of instruction for people wantiong to play the accordion - or if you don't want to download, you can order it to be delivered. Once downloaded you can read it on your computer or print it out and read it like a book.

But it's more than just an ebook: It also contains videos and sound files you can watch and listen to as you work through the course - all by the greatest teacher you couild possibly imagine to have, the world famous Enzo Giribaldi! And all for the price of a couple of cinema tickets (or even, a couple of lessons with an ordniary teacher, if you could find one).

I worked my way through the course and after that felt more confident about getting buying accordion music and other books on the accordion - now I had my solid grounding I was able to understand what the otehr books were saying and my technique was good. I'm not an expert (yet) but I do play in a band and we're going to record an album soon - which I'll put up on this site when I have something. So, for my first post here, I just wanted to tell you - yes, it's possible, and here's how...

Enzo Giribaldi's Accordion Course website!