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Irish Piano Accordion Technique

Basic Ornamentation Plus Left Hand Chord Technique

IRISH PIANO ACCORDION TECHNIQUE

Irish Piano Accordion Technique is suitable for you if you already have an understanding of the piano accordion and would like to add a lively selection of Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes, Marches and Slip Jigs to your repertoire.

By the end of the course you will have 13 new tunes with wonderful left hand accompaniment skills, a better understanding of Irish style piano accordion playing, some ornamentation and, all in all, a deeper knowledge of the Irish music tradition. The course has 13 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase.

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  • 18 lessons teaching how to play 13 very popular Irish tunes
  • PDF sheet music & mp3’s to download & keep for each tune
  • Progress at your own pace, pause & repeat videos
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Your Tutor

Mirella Murray
Mirella Murray currently plays with 'Cherish the Ladies'. She grew up in Claddaghduff, near Clifden, on the north west coast of Connemara. Her father John Joe, a notable sean nós dancer, comes from Inishark Island and has a deep understanding of, and love for, traditional music. Mirella learned the piano accordion from Mary Finn, herself a great player from the musical Finn family of Ballymote, Co. Sligo. She met up with fiddler Liz Kane from Letterfrack, and they played and learned a lot of their music together going through the Fleadh Cheoil competitions. They won the All-Ireland duet in 1995,…
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Course Structure

Irish Piano Accordion Technique covers basic ornamentation such as cuts, triplets and the use of double stops; while also showing the left hand chord technique for each of the tunes. For your convenience, all the bass notes and chords are marked out in the accompanying sheet music available to download with each lesson. This feature in itself is an excellent learning resource to help you incorporate more left hand accompaniment into your playing.  Teaching methods are firmly rooted in the traditional ways of teaching Irish music with tunes broken into short phrases that are played repeatedly. You are prompted when to play along and repeat the phrases, not continuing until each phrase is mastered. This is the beauty of pause/repeat video tutorials.

Tunes taught on this course are:

  • Charlie Harris’ Reel
  • The Bass
  • Na Ceannabhain Bhána
  • The View From Blackhead
  • The Dornoch Links
  • Sheehans
  • McDermots Hornpipe
  • Jack Daniels
  • The Cock And The Hen
  • Tune For Saileog Annie
  • John And Pip Murphy’s Reel
  • The Bahola Jig
  • Tommy Coen’s
Sample Sheet Music
Download Download Charlie Harris Reel ABC Sheet Music. Download Download Charlie Harris Reel Standard Notation Sheet Music.
Charlie Harris Reel
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Irish Piano Accordion Technique Lessons

1
Intermediate
Charlie Harris’ Reel

Chords and Bass

D Major
Reel
2
Intermediate
The Bass

The Bass

Focus on Technique
3
Intermediate
Na Ceannabhain Bhána

The Cut and The Bass

G Major
Slip Jig
4
Intermediate
The View from Blackhead

Triplets

D Major
Jig
5
Intermediate
The Dornoch Links

Cuts

A Major
March
6
Intermediate
Sheehans

Triplets

G Major
Reel
7
Intermediate
McDermots Hornpipe

Cuts and Triplets

D Major
Hornpipe
8
Intermediate
Jack Daniels

The One Note Triplet

A Major
Reel
9
Intermediate
The Cock and the Hen

Cuts, Triplets and Double Stops

F # Minor
Slip Jig
10
Intermediate
Tune for Saileog Annie

Ornamentation and Chords

Melody
F Major
Reel
11
Intermediate
John and Pip Murphy’s Reel

Ornamentation

Melody
A Major
Reel
12
Intermediate
The Bahola Jig

Finger Placement

E Major
Jig
13
Intermediate
Tommy Coen’s

In this final lesson of the course Š—…Irish Piano Accordion TechniqueŠ— Mirella will teach a Reel in G…

G Minor
Reel
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