Can anyone recommend a book(s) that contains beginner to intermediate right hand arpeggio exercises for C-system CBA? Because I am playing accordina, it would be best if the exercises are not dependent on something the left hand is doing.
Right hand arpeggio exercises for C-system CBA
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Thank you. That will be a good one for me down the line.
I was thinking more of exercises/etudes that concentrated on arpeggios in a single key or one that modulated temporarily with the goal of building facility and familiarity through repetition of a small group of chords and their inversions. I could make up my own exercises (and maybe that would be best) but it would be nice for a start to see what someone else dreamed up (including fingering), especially if they had a lot of teaching experience.
I was thinking more of exercises/etudes that concentrated on arpeggios in a single key or one that modulated temporarily with the goal of building facility and familiarity through repetition of a small group of chords and their inversions. I could make up my own exercises (and maybe that would be best) but it would be nice for a start to see what someone else dreamed up (including fingering), especially if they had a lot of teaching experience.
On a 4 or 5-row CBA in C-griff there is basically only 1 series of patterns (3 fingering positionings) to learn to do all keys for either 3-note or 4-note arpeggios. If it was a 3 row (like what I face in MIII free bass) its 2 sets of patterns.
Basically, once you learn one key, it is the same motions for every other key. This is something that you might not need to have written down exercises for as long as you are the least bit instinctive and know where the notes you are looking for are located.
Basically, once you learn one key, it is the same motions for every other key. This is something that you might not need to have written down exercises for as long as you are the least bit instinctive and know where the notes you are looking for are located.
Thank you. I do wish there were only 2 sets of patterns necessary to play all the chords in all the keys on the accordina. I "know" all three sets, I was just hoping that there were exercises/etudes that would help me build facility in a musical context (and get somebody else's approach to fingering them). I confess to being as lazy as the next guy. But you are right, figuring it all out myself is probably the best idea. I will start by working on what Terry sent.
You have all you need for the key of C in the first 8 bar segment of the pic I posted....
I'd suggest once you've nailed it to begin the arpeggios from the second note, then the third etc to get a grip on inversions....
The French have a saying 'do not play with forked fingers' which sort of means try and round your chords up and round in a shape rather than having to drop your middle fingers lower than the starting note but this is not always going to be possible on a three row accordina...
I tend to chose my chord shape by the chord I'm heading too so they blend seamlessly but it's not always possible...
Experiment and see what works for you, the more you play the more you'll discover alternate fingerings... especially when on a five row CBA...
Best wishes and enjoy
I'd suggest once you've nailed it to begin the arpeggios from the second note, then the third etc to get a grip on inversions....
The French have a saying 'do not play with forked fingers' which sort of means try and round your chords up and round in a shape rather than having to drop your middle fingers lower than the starting note but this is not always going to be possible on a three row accordina...
I tend to chose my chord shape by the chord I'm heading too so they blend seamlessly but it's not always possible...
Experiment and see what works for you, the more you play the more you'll discover alternate fingerings... especially when on a five row CBA...
Best wishes and enjoy
Thanks, Terry. I really appreciate it.
@Jim2010 .... here's quick video of first 8 bars. . ...I've played on accordion as easier to film and just used first three rows as if accordina...
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Notes for anyone playing accordion I'd use to third and fourth rows instead for the D minors and probably the F to F#dims and the turnaround...
Also note the bass walk up in bars 5,6...sweet device...
Hope helps....I'll leave video on a couple of weeks and delete as don't want to clog up my drive account..
New video by Terry St George
photos.app.goo.gl
Also note the bass walk up in bars 5,6...sweet device...
Hope helps....I'll leave video on a couple of weeks and delete as don't want to clog up my drive account..
@lostlobos Thank you, Terry. After seeing and hearing you play it I appreciate the benefits even more.
