MP3 Luis Rodrigues - It's A Small World
Popular world tunes played in accordion
20 MP3 Songs in this album (55:30) !
Related styles: World: World Traditions, Easy Listening: Ballroom, Solo Instrumental
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Details:
These tunes were arranged and recorded by myself, playing alone, without background music or electronic editing tricks other than some reverb and equalization accents.
As shown in the picture, the type of accordion represented here is the "chromatic" version, meaning that, at the right player hand of the instrument there are 12 notes per octave as in the piano keyboard, but no piano type keys. Just buttons separated each other by half a tone, which is the minimum tone difference attained by fixed tone instruments like the piano, harp, organ, and others.
Similar performance results may be possible when using the common piano key type accordion. However, speed and multi-melody lines, as shown in some of the included tunes, are easier to attain with buttons.
When playing alone as in these tunes, without a band or background music, the arrangements and interpretations must be richer, and execution mistakes may become more noticeable. But this is the only way to demonstrate the harmonic and melodic capabilities of this interesting instrument - The Accordion.