March 11, 2025
A huge new project that has been in my head for many months!
In late 2024 on one of the zoom meetings, it came up that there wasn’t a real good accordion course. It was tossed up if I wanted to do something like that, but no not really… I don’t want to tackle a project that tries to teach people how to play the accordion. There are too many personality types, too many kinds of accordions (CBA, PA, Free Bass, Stradella, Bayan, etc…), it would make it an impossible task.
However, I came up with the idea of what if I made a series of videos that discussed things in the manner of tips to help PA specific accordionists. I passed out the idea on the accordion forum and the result was pretty positive, so the decision to try it out was made.
Accordion Tips was born and we were off to the races.
Now, at this point, I have only made the decision to move forward with the project, and so I sat down and made a few points:
- I am NOT looking to make the quintessential “how to play accordion video, I want it to be a series of tips
- I want the videos to be in some kind of logical order
- I don’t want the videos to go longer than 15-30 minutes in duration (LOTS closer to 15 min than 30 in general!)
- I’ve taken down all the ideas that the people want to add into the videos somewhere, and I have some ideas on how and where I want to start the topic list.
I might want to make a separate section on this website just for it… we will see.
So, thats all that I have at this time, along with the basic outline if the introduction (first video) and second video, even if I have enough thought material for several videos at this time… but I need to really take the time to plan and possibly script things out.
Lets see where it takes us!
More to come as the project advances.