Deluxe Accordion Method

I am a harmonica player, now a newbee for accordion. This book does help a lot for my practice. It contains step by step instructions which are not difficult, but I prefer to have more familiar easy songs to make practicing more exciting.

Typical Mel Bay instruction. Lots of good information, and good teaching methods. Move up to this book as soon as you can. Have it on hand for when you need more advanced material.

I don't claim to be an expert on accordion instruction books but this book seems to be a good starter book. I has a lot of photos and drawings to explain things and has a system of easy to harder concepts to get you going. I suppose nothing beats either an instructor taught or at least video taught program but I think this will help you get going on the accordion. From here you will know if you are a player or just playing around. I like the spiral binding. All music books should be in that format so you can play from it with out it deciding to close up on you. I only give it 4 stars rather than five because I had some questions that were not answered but I suppose that would be true of any book. I think you would be safe to buy this book. Hope that helps. Ric.

The legendary Chet Atkins, who recorded something like 175 albums, even wrote an "Ode to Mel Bay." This series of instructional books has been around for decades. When I was a whippersnapper, I thought they were terribly boring. I've played piano for about 40 years, and recently developed a curiosity about the accordion. I bought this to learn some basics by myself , without benefit of a teacher.If you were alone on a desert island with nothing but an accordion and this book, (how's that for a scary thought?) you could become a decent accordion player. This book is appropriate for the total neophyte to music, as well as someone with musical experience who is new to the instrument. It is organized in a logical and stepwise manner, with successive exercises and tunes building on previous ones. I highly recommend this book