Title "Bossa Per Due" Artist Nicola Conte

I was instructed to learn arpeggios on the guitar. I always wanted to learn them on piano or accordion but never came up in a lesson. Seems to me a good way to learn to play using broken "triads" instead of only scales.

Here's a three chord Bossa Nova tune from the Starbucks "In a Bossa Nova Mood" we broke down. The up tempo track is exciting and gets your attention. I really like the odd "60's chord progression", and loose repeated vocal jibberish. Something out of a Austin Powers movie.

Gminor7 - Eb7 -Gminor - Eb7 Transcribed by Michael Hayes from Dave's Accordion School.

Music Theory "Modes"- by Michael Hayes

"La Mariposita" - P. Frosini

This song has some usual rthyms and sounds very sophisticated. The Chromatic section near the end of page one is VERY difficult to play. Smaller size accordion seems to free me up from being strapped behind a large one and demanding music.

This Frosini was a Master of the Accordionist.

"Blue Note" - Test Your Reading Skills

There is an App on you can download for free that allows the user to practice reading notes just like you would "Flash Cards". I've been using regular Flash Cards to learn my "musical notes" for about a year but still am slow reading bass clef.

The App called "Blue Note" has helped me and is loads more fun than the cards. The problems that still occur are the notes above and below the lined staff. Tonight though I just realized the notes above the bass clef stave are just like reading the treble clef. Just find Middle "C" and then you can see them.

I still not to sure how to memorize the ones below with Bass Clef or the ones above on the treble clef but I will just keep working.

The only way I've been learning the other notes above the treble is by finding the 'octave' or the same note that's below it 8 notes. This works but still am counting ledger lines which I've been told it not the correct why to read.

Bernard Hermann

I was looking for the music of Bernard Herrmann but don't want another 50 page book. They made sheet music but this looks like a song some one would sing. I could see they would sell more music with this kind of photos but the song is a "Instrumental Fandango"!

Fandango - lively Spanish or Spanish-American dance in triple time that is usually performed by a man and a woman to the accompaniment of guitar and castanets.