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. Of all the other Anglo tutors out there, the tablature system presented here is by far and away 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.Instead of including a CD with the book, most of the tunes can be found on the "anglotutor" playlist on YouTube where you can both see and hear them being played on a 30-button C/G Anglo concertina.

Anglo Concertina in the Harmonic Style

Arts & Photography

Coover, Gary

Music

Rollston Press

Here for the first time are 50 all-time favorite Christmas songs and carols especially arranged for the 30-button C/G Anglo concertina. Like having a Christmas cracker full of wonderful surprises, this book will teach you how to push and pull your concertina to serenade and entertain your friends, your family and yourself throughout the holiday season. Melody lines for all tunes are provided in standard musical notation and can be played by any musical instrument. To play both melodies and full harmonies, this book uses the same easy tablature system from “Anglo Concertina in the Harmonic Style.” AND...all 50 selections are linked via scannable QR codes to online videos showing exactly how to play each and every arrangement!

Christmas Concertina

The perfect pocket reference for sea shanties and other songs of the sea from the era of the great sailing ships. Over a hundred traditional songs with music, sized to conveniently fit in your coat pocket, sea bag, backpack, purse or back hip pocket.Easy to learn, these favorite songs can educate or entertain, or perhaps even accompany a working tall ship crew while they turn the capstan, haul on the bowline or splice the mainbrace.Work songs, play songs, and all around fun to sing songs - for the sailor, singer and pirate in everyone.The Pocket Shantyman includes the complete words and music to these sea songs and shanties:A Hundred Years Ago, A Tall Ship for Texas, A Wife in Every Port, Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy, Adieu You Pretty Nancy, Alabama John Cherokee, All For Me Grog, A-Roving, Banks of Green Willow, Banks of Newfoundland, Barrack Street, Black Ball Line, Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds, Bold Benjamin-O, Bold Riley, Bonny Ship the Diamond, Boston Harbor, Bring 'Em Down, Bully in the Alley, Cape Cod Girls, Coast of Barbary, Dark Eyed Sailor, Dockyard Gate, Donkey Riding, Drunken Sailor, The Ebenezer, Essequiba River, Fare Thee Well You Barbary Merchants, Farewell Nancy, Farewell to Nova Scotia, Farewell to Tarwathie, Fiddler's Green, Fire Marengo, Fireship, Fish in the Sea, Five Gallon Jar, Flash Frigate, Frisco Ship, General Taylor, Glendy Burk, Golden Vanity, Good Ship Kangaroo, Goodbye Fare Thee Well, Greenland Whale Fisheries, Handsome Cabin Boy, Hanging Johnny, Haul Away for Rosie, Haul on the Bowline, Hearts of Gold, Heave Away Me Johnnies, Heave Ya Ho, Henry Martin, Hi-Ho Come Roll Me Over, Hogeye Man, Holy Ground Once More, Home Boys Home, I Will Set My Ship In Order, I'll Go and List for Sailor, I'll Go to Sea No More, Jim Jones, John Kanaka, Jolly Roving Tar, Keeper of the Eddystone Light, Lady Leroy, Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her, Leaving of Liverpool, Let the Bulgine Run, Lindy Lowe, Little Fishes, Liverpool Judies, London Julies, Lord Franklin, Losing of the Whale, Lowlands Away, Lowlands of Holland, Maggie May, The Mermaid (#1), The Mermaid (#2), Mingulay Boat Song, Money Down, My Johnny Was a Shoemaker, New York Girls, One More Day, Our Captain Cried All Hands, Our Good Ship Lies in Harbor, Outward &amp; Homeward Bound, Paddy Lay Back, Paddy West, Pay Me My Money Down, Pleasant &amp; Delightful, Poor Old Horse, Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth, Rambling Sailor, Randy Dandy O, Rant &amp; Roar (Spanish Ladies), Reuben Ranzo, Rio Grande, Roll Alabama Roll, Roll Down, Roll the Old Chariot, Roll the Woodpile Down, Rolling Down to Old Maui, The Rosabella, Round the Bay of Mexico, Rounding the Horn, Sally Racket, Sam's Gone Away, Santiano, Saucy Sailor, Shallow Brown, Ship in Distress, South Australia, Stately Southerner, Strike the Bell, Talcuhuano Girls, Tommy's Gone Away, Tom's Gone to Hilo, Turk-Duffing Song, Waitin' for the Day, Water is Wide, Weary Cutters, Weary Whaling Grounds, When I Was a Fair Maid, Whiskey Johnny, Whup Jamboree, Wild Goose, Yarmouth Town, Ye Mariners All, Yellow Gals

The Pocket Shantyman

75 More Irish Session Tunes for Anglo Concertina

If ye be wantin’ to play a real concertina like a real pirate, then this be the book for ye. It includes everything ye need to learn including words, music and tablature for the Anglo concertina.Inside ye will find over 70 sea shanties, hornpipes, jigs and other traditional songs of the sea for yer singin’ an’ playin’. Includes standard musical notation plus tablature for Anglo concertina.From their heyday in the 1600's and 1700's to present-day shows like Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Sails, and online games like Assassin's Creed and Sea of Thieves, pirates are more popular than ever and the concertina is the instrument of choice for enjoying their old sea shanties and traditional tunes. Even after all these years they're still great fun to play, too.So, hoist yer black flag, don yer gear and get ready to bellow like a real pirate. Arrr!

Pirate Songs for Concertina

This book presents 60 songs and tunes from the American Civil War that were favorites with the soldiers and those at home, arranged especially for the 20-button C/G Anglo concertina.Inside are patriotic airs, marching songs, soldier songs, sentimental ballads and minstrel show songs adapted from the original sheet music, including popular works by Stephen C. Foster, George F. Root, Henry Clay Work and many others. All songs and tunes include the melody in standard musical notation along with complete lyrics and chords so you can play them on any musical instrument. For those who play the 20-button Anglo concertina, every selection includes an Anglo concertina tablature system that makes it easy to learn and play simple and complex arrangements. The music is arranged for concertina in a variety of styles – single note, simple harmony, octaves, and full accompaniment. All 60 tunes also have a QR code that links to a YouTube video so you can hear and see exactly how each printed arrangement is played.Although the 20-button Anglo only has one row of buttons in the key of C and another row in the key of G, it is far less limited than you might think, and you will be surprised just how much music you can make with it and how so many of these wartime melodies seem to fit perfectly.This book will take you back a hundred and fifty years so you can experience the songs and music of the rallies, the camps, the battlefields and the homes.

Civil War Concertina

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

For beginners on the Anglo concertina, this book includes 35 tunes in easy-to-learn tablature. Starting off with simple tunes on 1-row, then tunes for 2-row 20-button instruments and finally tunes for 30-button Anglos. Single note, harmonica, octave, harmonic and Irish styles are presented with the same simple tablature system used in the author's other books to show which buttons to play along with the melody in standard musical notation.

Easy Anglo 1-2-3: A Beginner's Guide to the Anglo Concertina

75 of the most popular Irish reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, slip jigs and airs played at traditional Irish music sessions worldwide, with standard musical notation and with easy-to-learn tablature for the Anglo concertina.

75 Irish Session Tunes for Anglo Concertina

Enjoy and relive the romance of the Great American West with this collection of 75 oldtime western and cowboy songs arranged especially for the Anglo concertina. Included are full lyrics, music, and special Anglo concertina tablature. You will find many of your favorite old cowboy songs here, from “Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos” all they way to “The Zebra Dun”. Gary Coover has played the Anglo concertina for many years and authored several popular tutors and tune books for the concertina. Pipp Gillette is an award-winning singer, cowboy poet, chuckwagon aficionado and working cowboy who performed with the Gillette Brothers for many years and set many of Waddie Mitchell’s cowboy poems to music. INCLUDES VIDEO INSTRUCTION! All 75 songs are linked via smartphone-scannable QR codes to online videos. You can see and hear exactly how to play every song.

Cowboy Concertina: 75 Songs of the Old American West

Gillette, Pipp

Relive the exciting days of the tall ships and square-riggers with this new collection of nearly 90 traditional sea songs and shanties especially arranged for concertina. All lyrics are included, along with standard musical notation, plus special tablature so you can learn to play all of these wonderful old songs on the Anglo concertina.The companion to Pirate Songs for Concertina and a treasury of nautical lore and song, this is the perfect book for channeling your inner sailor and serenading your shipmates with work songs, whaling songs, forebitters and love songs.

Sailor Songs for Concertina

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