Tune of the Month July - Twin Sisters aka Upton or Chingford Stick Dance as waltz. My best attempts скачать в хорошем качестве

Tune of the Month July - Twin Sisters aka Upton or Chingford Stick Dance as waltz. My best attempts

Here's my perfectly imperfect submission for the Melodeon.net Tune of the Month for July 2025. In the spirit of my "Just Practice" series, I edited it to the best (which was surprisingly the earliest bits of the practice) and then edited it to show a good portion of the better parts of the entire practice. One reason I post these is the proliferation of heavily edited and misleading videos of influencers who dabble in music, pick up an instrument and learn it for the first time in what appears to be "no time at all" or after a brief struggle. These videos are entertaining but definitely not at all realistic. "How I learned melodeon in one day" is an entertaining fantasy unless you happen to be an accomplished musician already with near-savant talents. There are some out there but not as many as these fantastical videos would like you to believe there are. Now that I've stated the obvious... This session was a series of six clips done during one practice and I left all but the most cringeworthy errors in... Finally, I learn in about the second run how to actually look at the camera and play at the same time :-) And trying to keep the rhythm going even when the fingers aren't where they are meant to be. And how to vamp a little using extra measures just to keep the tune going. This wouldn't work for the patterns in the stick dance, but would be fine for a waltz. Not perfectly executed, but it did keep me moving through the tune rather than the awkward stop and starts that are present in some of the outtakes toward the end. I've been off the sheet music now for weeks, so I know the tune by heart and still every time it comes out a little different. My Sara 2 DG Beltuna melodeon is so sweet sounding and plays like a dream, and yet in the practice I found myself getting kind of cramped up bellows-wise. I think I was getting weary. As usual please if you enjoyed this video click the like button - I try to convey what practicing as an adult amateur musician is like for me, so that people interested in learning an instrument know that proficiency at an instrument (one like a melodeon which is maddeningly complicated at times, getting the bellows air right and getting the push and pull notes down and finding the right bass buttons for the tune and ... much more I don't yet fully understand!) is incremental, sometimes tiny degrees of improvement... it just doesn't come instantly. If you have tips or techniques that you use when you practice melodeon, please do leave a comment.