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Improve Your Improv Workshop For the Intermediate Keyboard Accordion - Filmed over a 2 week period at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.
For the Price of 3 - 1 Hr Private Lessons - you will get this 7 Disc Set - loaded with 10 hours of instructions, 37 Sheet Music Arrangements, 61 page Step-by-Step Guide and 27 High Quality Backtracks on the Audio CD.
On the DVD, Shelia Lee, owner of Houston Accordion Performers, walks you through skills and technique drills with the aim to improve your technique, sight-reading ability, chord structure knowledge, and fun ways to enhance your
solo and group performances.
On the CD, you will find 27 backtracks created by Mario Pedone
You will learn:
All your Scales (& Key Signatures)
Chords & Arpeggios on ALL Major, Minor, 7th, Dim, M6 Chords and More.
Right & Left Hand Chord Accompaniment Styles & Enhancements
How to Engage Your Audience - Performance Tips & Tricks
Accompanying (Comping) Skills
5 Steps to Practice - How to pattern your Practice Time
Block/Absorb/Vertical - Steps for learning New Songs
How to give YOURSELF PERMISSION to Have fune while you Practice
This DVD set INCLUDES the ENTIRE K.I.S.S. workshop listed below - backtracks, video, & workshop instruction.
PDF files for songs and workshops are located on one of the DVD discs for your convenient printing.
Improve Your Improve Workshop Clip
Clip As seen on You Tube:
K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple & Smile
For the Intermediate Keyboard Accordion
Master the Accordion Workshops Presents K.I.S.S. - 1 hour DVD plus Cd with 8 Backtracks
Shelia Lee has been teaching this workshop for Keyboard Accordion for years and still - every accordionist learns something new every time she teaches it!
Keep it Simple is exactly that - a simple way to learn ALL your Keys and Chords and Scales. Then take this knowledge and apply it to
playing accompaniment chords in jamming sessions or self accompaniment. Other tips and tricks are taught to enhance your melody lines.
The DVD and 35 Page PDF Intstructions covers:
Chords & Arpeggios on All CHORDS (M, m, 7th, Dim, M6, & More
How to Add Chords "On the Fly"
Musical Enhancements - Both Hands
Accompanying (Comping) Skills
Songs Taught with Full Chords and Added Enhancements
La Vie En Rose, Can't Help Falling In Love, & New York New York
6 Additional Sheet Music & Backtracks Included with DVD
Adios Muchachos (Tango), Les Bicyclettes, Midnight in Moscow
San Antonio Rose, Spanish Eyes, Westphalia Waltz
Workshop comes with a 1 Hour DVD, and CD containing 9 Backtracks recorded by Mario Pedone.
PDF files of the 35 page Workshop Instructions and all sheetmusic is included on the DVD.
K.I.S.S. Workshop Sample Lesson
As seen on You Tube:
Bellows (Breathe Your Music)
For the Intermediate Keyboard Accordion
Master the Accordion Workshops Presents Breathe Your Music - 1 hour DVD plus PDF of Workshop Materials
Shelia Lee has been teaching this workshop for Keyboard Accordion for years and still - every accordionist learns something new every time she teaches it!
Bellow control is the heart of the music producted by an accordion. No two accordions' reeds respond the same and the accordionist needs to understand the techniques taught in this DVD.
The Accordion is a physically demaning instrument to master. After the mechanics of playing both hand together and "pumping" the bellows is learned - the final technique of creating dynamics and expression is needed. Just as a volcalist learns breath control, to start and end notes and phrases, to create a MOOD -
So must an accordionist - learn these through bellow techniques and control.
The DVD and 17 Page PDF Intstructions covers:
Proper Accordion Position
Bellows Directions
How to Listen to your Reeds
Phrasing Techniques
Difference between Vibrato & Tremolo
Bellow Timing (How to Change Directions)
How (and where) to Accent
Bellow Shakes
Dynamics and Ecpresion
Workshop comes with a 1 Hour DVD &
PDF files of the 17 page Workshop Instructions is included on the DVD.
Breathe Your Music Workshop Sample Lesson
As seen on You Tube:
Technically Musical with Mario Pedone
For the Intermediate to Advanced Keyboard Accordionist
Master the Accordion Workshops Presents Technically Musical - 1 hour DVD plus PDF of Exercises & Workshop Materials
PRESENTING - Mario Pedone's FIRST Instructional DVD. What can be said - that has not already been said about the beautiful performance technique of Mario Pedone? From his own testimony,
his abilities comes from slow, methodical practice of scales, arpeggios, Hanon drills, and other exercises. Now - here is Mario's Secrets REVEALED!
Each section presented on this DVD can and probagbly will take weeks, months, even years to master - but to reach Mario's level of performance - it is worth it!!! And to help with your learning,
Mario has designed materials for practice - that are included on the DVD in PDF format.
The DVD and 77 Page PDF Intstructions covers:
Scale Techniaue
Hanon Technique
Grace Notes
Tango & Boogie Stlye
Passing Chords
Chords & Variations
Polka Fill-ins & Endings
Fill-In Demonstration
Repeating Same Note Technique
Blues Scales & Demos
Triplet (Arpeggo) Technique
Workshop comes with a 1 Hour DVD &
PDF files of the 77 page Workshop Instructions is included on the DVD.
Technically Musical with Mario Pedone
As seen on You Tube:
Jam Collection #1
For the Intermediate Accordionist
Master the Accordion Workshops Presents Jam Collection #1 - 1 hour DVD, CD with all Backtracks - plus PDF of Written Music
Each arrangement is in an easy key, written for the Intermediate Accordionist, and the DVD SHOWS HOW to take these easy arrangements and enhance them with chords and embellishments.
Accordion clubs all over the world are ending their gatherings with a MASS ACCORDION JAM. Shelia Lee and Mark Ropel belong to just such an accordion club.
To further make learning and performing these songs - AND to encourage the accordionist to start to add Chords & Ad Libs - Shelia & Mark have video-taped the songs in each collection.
Then Mario Pedone created backtracks for each - so the New Accordionist can be confident with their performance.
Songs Included:
De Colores
I'll Fly Away
Ice Castles (Theme)
Just Because
Las Mananitas
Somewhere My Love
South of the Border
Too Fat Polka
The Twist
Walk Like a Man
What a Wonderful World
Y.M.C.A.
Jam #1 comes with a 1 Hour DVD &
PDF files for all the written sheet music &
CD with the backtracks for each
Jam Collection #2
For the Intermediate Accordionist
Master the Accordion Workshops Presents Jam Collection #2 - 1 hour DVD, CD with all Backtracks - plus PDF of Written Music
Each arrangement is in an easy key, written for the Intermediate Accordionist, and the DVD SHOWS HOW to take these easy arrangements and enhance them with chords and embellishments.
Accordion clubs all over the world are ending their gatherings with a MASS ACCORDION JAM. Shelia Lee and Mark Ropel belong to just such an accordion club.
To further make learning and performing these songs - AND to encourage the accordionist to start to add Chords & Ad Libs - Shelia & Mark have video-taped the songs in each collection.
Then Mario Pedone created backtracks for each - so the New Accordionist can be confident with their performance.
Songs Included:
Edelweiss
Hava Nagila
I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy
In Heaven ther is No Beer
On the Road Again
Que Sera, Sera (What Ever Will Be, Will Be)
Sugartime
The Little Cafe by the Harbour
This Land is Your Land
Walk Right In
Wings of a Dove
You Are My Sunshine
Jam #1 comes with a 1 Hour DVD &
PDF files for all the written sheet music &
CD with the backtracks for each
For Keyboard Accordion - Scales are the basis for most improvisation theory. You already can name ALL the scales and the sharps and flats in each – This will be proven to you!
No matter how experienced of a performer you are, you are NOT practicing your scales, drills, and arpeggios ENOUGH. This workshop will motivate you to LEARN the theory behind your scales and use this knowledge as a stepping stone toward improvisation. A quick review of the theory behind scales, arpeggios, and circle of fifths.
Book Only - 19 pages, full instructions, illustrations, scale sheets, chord sheets, arpeggios, and some drills. 8 1/2 x 11
For Keyboard Accordion - Using your knowledge of Major Scales & Arpeggios for clean confident technique.
Confidence is what we all NEED. This comes with practice and experience. Adult students have fewer stimuli to be coaxed or praised to success. This workshop is designed to MOTIVATE all levels of performers to be comfortable performing in public and NOT TOO SCARED to be brave enough to step out and try that jazz riff into the bridge; to try that fancy arpeggio ending; to grab 2 additional notes for that chord; to deliver a clean fast chromatic intro – in both hands – UNISON!!!!!
INCLUDED: Sheetmusic to the TOP 25 MOST REQUESTED Accordion Solos.
Beer Barrel Polka, Blue Skirt Waltz, Chicken Dance, Cotton Eye Joe, Deep in the Heart of Texas, Edelweiss, German Waltz Medley, Godfather Theme, La Vi en Rose, Lady of Spain, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Liechtensteiner Polka, Lili Marlene, Muss I Den (Wooden Heart), Rocky Top, San Antonio Rose, Somewhere My Love, Tennesse Waltz, That’s Amore, The Gambler, Too Fat Polka, Unchained Melody, Unforgettable, What a Wonderful World, and Yellow Rose of Texas.
Book Only - 18 pages, full instructions, illustrations, scale sheets, chord sheets, arpeggios, and some drills. PLUS Sheetmusic. 8 1/2 x 11
Optional - Companion Book - Mario Pedone - Accordion Technique (Speed Drills and Exercises)
