Accordion Course for Beginners Review cont’d

July 18th, 2007

The third item I consider in choosing learning material, musical or otherwise is the level of the material.

  1. Is the level appropriate for me?

 

When looking for a book on how to play the accordion or any other instrument, one of the things you have to take into account is the level. Who is this eBook intended for? How much prior knowledge do you have to have? What will I have accomplished by the end of the course? In the case of Accordion Course for Beginners, the name pretty well says it all. This book is intended for beginners, so it starts with the fundamentals of reading music, time signatures, note values, keys, and so on. For those with a music background this may seem a bit redundant, but for the many who people who nay have taken music as a child and then dropped it, only to inherit an accordion from a family member or friend later on, the beginning portion of this book can serve as a solid review to get you going again.

 

Even if you are not a beginning musical, a well-written, well-planned, and well-executed book like this can be a great asset for the accordion portions alone. Because of course it’s not all just music theory in the first part of the book—you also learn the fundamentals of accordion along the way, so that by the time you start laying your first song, you know what’s going on. The graphics, sound clips, and embedded videos make it easy for you to go at your own pace as you learn to play the accordion. The demonstrations are helpful; the graphics and presentation easy to understand.

 

By the end of this course, you will have progressed from a beginner accordion player to an intermediate, which is a fair accomplishment. That gives you enough skill to learn more on your own, explore new genres, experiment with different techniques, and figure out songs on your own.

 

In short, in terms of level, this creative eBook on how to play the accordion does a good job a presenting material suitable for beginners or returning musicians who are musically rusty in theory, and an excellent job of explaining the accordion and taking the beginner step-by-step through the 50 lessons that lead the beginner to an intermediate level.

 

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Accordion Course for Beginners Review con’t

July 12th, 2007

Let’s look at the second criterion I seek in learning materials:

 

  1. Is it well organized?

 

In my experience many music instruction books lack coherence and organization. They assume the reader has knowledge or skills that aren’t present at that stage. Or, in their quest to present certain material their way, they forget about the needs of the learner. To be frank, it often seems as though some executive in a music publishing company said something like “Oh, we need and accordion instruction book. go hire someone to throw one together.” Not this book.

 

Enzo Giribaldi’s eBook on how to play the accordion is written by a musician who understands how people learn and is passionate about his instrument himself. And his eBook format is both well organized and useful. The pdf format allows for multi-media files to be embedded in the the eBook. so you have not only text and images, but video and sound clips that open when you click on an icon at certain places. The student gets the explanation written out, and gets to see it and hear it. This makes the book accessible to different learning styles. Let’s face it some are more visual learners, some auditory, some intellectual.

The organization of this book on learning accordion, and the multi-media format make it easy to follow and highly usable by just about anybody. So top marks for organization for Accordion Course for Beginners.

 

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Review of Enzo Giribaldi’s Accordion Course for Beginners

July 12th, 2007

So you want learn how to play the accordion and have been looking on line for resources to do that? The the type of learning materials you want of course depend on you needs, learning style, and so on. I look for several things:

  1. Accessibility. Is it something I can keep, and print, use when, where and how I want?

  2. Is it well organized? You’d be surprised how many people who can play, can’t teach!

  3. Is the level appropriate for me?

  4. Is there support for the program or are you on your own once you buy it?

 

So let’s look at Enzo Giribaldi’s Accordion Course for Beginners from the standpoint of those four points:

 

1. Accessibility

 

One of the things I noticed when looking around on line for lessons to learn accordion was that there are very few in book format that are available for download. You can find books that you can purchase on line and have them sent to you, but my experience with music books you are really taking a chance with those. You don’t know if it’s well organized and coherent; they don’t usually show much in the way of examples. It’s a risk.

 

Enzo Giribaldi’s eBook on how to play the accordion seems to be one-of-a-kind, as advertised. I couldn’t find another such accordion instruction book on line. I like the idea that I can download this book immediately. It’s in pdf format so it’s easy to read, it’s interactive. I get a choice of viewing on my desktop, my laptop, printing our the sections I want to. Heck, I can even put it on a flash drive and take it with me on the road!

 

In short, the eBook format is uniquely accessible. It has all the features of a print book, plus the immediacy, interactivity, and portability of today’s modern electronic documents.

 

Top marks for Accordion Course for Beginners on point one.

 

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