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HOW TO PLAY THE ENGLISH MELODEON
John Kirkpatrick
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Double DVD box, MCRDVD 6002
Published by Mrs Casey Records, 2006
Total running time: 198 minutes |
Originally published as a series of three
tutorial videos, this has now been repackaged into a single box
with two DVDs. The programme
gives you a complete one-to-one lesson, starting from absolute
scratch and ending up out beyond Mars! No musical notation, no
complicated tablatures, and no impossible diagrams – this
is teaching by ear and by sight, using, for the first time on a
tuition video, traditional English tunes and songs.
Keeping the running order of the three videos - with over forty
sections in all, split into equal parts over the two discs and
directly accessible from the main menus - the DVD format allows
for further precisely timed sub-sections and clearly labelled titles
as each new tune is introduced.
The original descriptions were as follows:
| VOLUME 1, MCRV 9991, 1999 |
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What a melodeon is, where the notes are, getting the two
sides playing together, all the basic dance rhythms, a long
look at dynamics and ornamentation, and a thorough exploration
of the possibilities of sticking to one row. 82 minutes. |
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| VOLUME 2, MCRV 9992, 1999 |
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Secrets Revealed – discovering the wider musical potential
of the two-row melodeon – playing three or more chords,
looking at minor scales and modes, changing key,
crossing the rows, and making full use of the basses. 60 minutes. |
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| VOLUME 3, MCRV 1004, 2001 |
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The Masterclass – How to achieve clarity at speed,
and a long look at chords on the
right hand, both as accompaniment and as rhythmic stabs under a tune, with advice
on how to get the fullest effects in minor keys, and hint at chords that aren’t
there. 56 minutes. |
To order the DVDs please contact Mrs Casey Records.
The DVDs are available in both PAL (British) and NTSC (American)
formats. Please specify which you require.
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JOHN KIRKPATRICK'S
ENGLISH CHOICE
A tune-book containing 101 traditional
dance tunes, suitable for all melody instruments, but
especially selected because they sit happily on the
push-pull melodeon scale. Notation is given not only
in the keys in which the tunes are played on the two
accompanying recordings, but also in the original keys
for each tune, and, where appropriate, in a key that
is more session-friendly! Melodies, chords, some notes
on the tunes, a lengthy introduction and discussion
of the instruments, with a few photos.
John has specially recorded all the tunes in this book
onto two CDs, so that you can hear how they go, and
play along him. He is accompanied on about two-thirds
of them by his son Benji on guitars or bouzouki.
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ORLANDO'S RETURN
John Kirkpatrick,
2003
A Mally Production DMPCD 0301
The first 53 tunes.
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GARRICK'S DELIGHT
John Kirkpatrick,
2003
Mrs Casey Records MCRV 9992
The remaining 48 tunes.
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To order the tune book and the CDs, please contact Mally.com:
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Mally.com
3 East View
Moorside
Cleckheaton
West Yorkshire
BD19 6LD. |
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+44 (0)1274 876388 |
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+44 (0)1274 865208 |
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mally@mally.com |
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www.mally.com |
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