Scaling the Accordion,
Book 1 is designed to help piano accordion students become familiar
with all major scales. It also helps students develop facility with
the basses. This modem approach is a companion book to use in conjunction
with other instructional books.
The sequence for this book is scale
exercise, and tune for each major scale, preparing the student to play
the tune composed for the scale. After covering a major scale, add
this scale to the warm-ups for each practice session.
Each exercise page starts with a
basic scale exercise. The other exercises on the page are based on
the tune that follows. Repeat each exercise many times. This
is a model for practicing music. Identify the challenging passages
and practice them many times, independently of the tune. This makes
the tune much easier to play!
Each tune was composed to help the
student become more familiar with the notes and sounds of the scale.
The teacher can also use the tunes to help the student with dynamics, articulation,
phrasing, and expression.
Scale fingerings are included to
help students develop proper habits. The fingerings on the major
scale page are standard fingerings. Becoming familiar with standard
fingerings helps students assign their own fingerings in other music they
encounter. Fingerings for the exercises and for the tunes provide
a foundation for any alternative fingerings that a teacher might wnat to
show students.
I hope you have lots of fun with
the accordion as you go through this book!Valarie Morris
