I kid you not when I saw your other video playing this song I showed it to my friends saying " this is a man living his best life" and I've wanted to learn the song ever sense. I even tried just watching the video super close. I picked up the concertina during covid. I look forward to FINALLY being able to make an attempt at this one. Thank you.
Amazing! I was dying with trying to learn my concertina. And there’s almost no tutorials to songs online. Thank you so much!! The tabs with the different colours for pull and push was genius and a life saver
words can't express how excited I am to sit down with this video and my 'tina tomorrow! so so so delightful of you to make such a nice tutorial video and I especially love that you thought of us Jeffries players! seriously, I know that this must have been very time consuming and I wanna express my sincere gratitude, I've loved both yours and Adrian's playing of this tune for what feels like forever now and for you to put together such a clear tutorial is wonderful. I love the button charts, they look great and easy to follow! thanks again, happy playing!
Aw, shucks, Gary-thank you! It was a fair bit of work to put together, but I have some ideas on how to streamline things for the next one, if there's appetite. Lots of rain still in the forecast 😁
Superb! Short of having a “live” teaching session I can’t think of a better way of presenting a concertina tutorial. RU-vid’s facility to slow the video down combined with the graphics make this presentation very easy to follow. Thank you!
This button diagram format is the best and easiest to follow on the internet. Thank you very much as all most of what ti do is learn some songs without having knowledge of musical notation. I have Jeffries, thanks for thinking about us.
Thank you so much for making this!! I have had my concertina for about a year and learned a few songs using only the middle row (most from the book Easy Anglo 1-2-3) I stumbled across your Orange in Bloom video, and Adrian Browns video back then and i really wanted to learn it! And then you just make an amazing tutorial like this!! I am coming along nicely on the A part at the moment 😄 I just wish I could see your right hand fingering during playing too 🙂 Again thank you from a Norwegian concertina player! I only have resources in english to use for this fun instrument so keep them coming in this great format!
This is truly amazing!🥰 You really inspire people to try play as beautiful as you do, and this tutorial is really going to help a lots of people. I am sitting here just enjoying this fantastic piece and wishing that I also had an consertina of my own
Thank you so much! I was enamored the first time heard this a year or two back and had an awful time trying to learn it from ear alone. I'll be working on this for the rest of the day!
This is the first time I've seen a tutorial of the Anglo concertina played in the English style. Most tutorials I can find are done in the Irish style with more complex single note melodies with chords mostly as ornamentation. It's really fascinating to see the difference.
Ah yes-I love Irish music, but I don't really play much of it. I got into concertina for the harmonic possibilities. Lots of Morris musicians play this way (which I think of as similar to playing a melodeon), and there are a few virtuosos in a league of their own who play really complicated classical stuff that I absolutely idolize. Check out Adrian Brown and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne if you're interested: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p5i6QI7u870.html livestream.com/uol/final-recitals-17/videos/157705262
@@lukehillman I searched for the right system for me to back up my singing an playing chords and melody at the same time. Beginner bracket with Duet concertinas is very scarce though. So I chose the Anglo.
@@BobBobsta you can play chords and melody at the same time with an Anglo. Check out my other Anglo videos for examples. More complicated arrangements, and arrangements in different keys, can be easier on duet. But as long as you don't mind a puzzle, Anglo is capable of quite a lot!
Love this tutorial, thanks for taking the time to put it together! I've always liked your rendition of Orange in Bloom the best and this video makes it much easier to play along 😁. Big thanks and great work!
That's a wonderful tutorial. I'm new to the concertina, but I've been playing this tune for decades on strings (an octave lower). The C section is new to me, and just makes it work beautifully; One thing, though, in standard notation, I'd have notated the C section in duple time instead of triple, at the proportion change, for the first half of the C, then back to 3 for the end.
Thanks for this feedback -- I'm an extremely inelegant transcriber; I mainly play by ear and am painfully slow actually writing things down. Duple makes sense.
Cool! Thank you for the tutorial. It’s exciting to see that the methods used for teaching the concertina are in development (and improvement!) still. I’d love to see an Enrico tutorial as well!
This Rocks!!! just picked up a New Swan from Mcneela! this is going to be my first song XD. I cant read music but with your simple tutorials, I learned to play part A in a few hours! Thank you so much! im Definetly Subscribing and i cant wait to see more tutorials like this. Thank you so much for teaching me how to play this beautiful song! probably a little hard for my first song but why unot jump in head first LOL
@@matthewb3495 Congrats on the new concertina, and I'm so glad these are helpful! I might take requests at some point, but I'm mostly trying to work through my existing repertoire first. What tunes are you looking for?
@@lukehillman So sorry for late reply! been a little crazy here at home. I was looking for any of the Kass songs from legend of zelda: breath of the wild, or any of the Sea of Thieves Shanties but especially Grogg Males and summon the Megalodon! sorry im very much a nerd but its hard to deny how amazing they sound of Concertina! Any help to learn those sonogs would be greatly appreciated. id be willing to compensate you for your work! Thank you so much for this Tutorial ive got part A down and am now working on part B. Was a crazy song to be my first song learned
@@matthewb3495 Hmm, okay. Let me take a listen and see if there's any low-hanging fruit that I can pull off. I've heard a bit of the Zelda stuff but not Sea of Thieves, though I know a good chunk of concertina newcomers are coming from that game. I'm nowhere near reliable enough with this stuff yet to even dream of accepting payments, but never say never...
"I'm going to play it really slow" I'm here with my concertina excited to try it, only to have you actually go warp speed, with no chance at keeping up. lol. Great video! I am just too much of a beginner. I need to get a book to teach me I think! Thanks though; maybe in a few months I can come back to this and try!
Yeeaah, I really blew through that, didn't I. This was my first attempt at a tutorial, before I had a good idea of what I was doing (still don't, but hopefully more recent ones are a bit better). Were you able to get it slow enough using the youtube speed control? I should probably post an updated one with a slower pace. Sorry about that!
I find it easier to play the g on the middle row ring finger (right hand) rather than the bottom row pointer finger. Was really struggling until i figured that out. Hoping there is no drawback to it, for me it just feels a lot more intuitive :) Please make more of these. I think this is a really underfed market and I suspect you could gain quite the little cult following if you made regular videos in this format with the graphic at the bottom :) (I certainly will be checking them out, and man do I adore this song, and I found it through you :)
No drawback on this tune! Sometimes you might find it's easier to make a phrase work using one or the other. This is just my default way of playing it. Definitely plan to make more; just have to find the time. Hoping I can get one in before the end of the month. Very glad to hear it's helpful :)
Brilliant! A real breakthrough in teaching the concertina. How did you do that? I cannot imagine the work involved if you did it all by hand. Maybe you did, if so then chapeau to you, sir. Maybe you used a midi concertina? If not, then that that might be an interesting idea to pursue. A suggestion: would it be possible for you to superimpose the note names on top of the buttons in the button diagrams? This would allow non-Anglo players to use your material.
Thank you! I wrote a bit of software to create and step through the fingerings, and then sync'd it to my playing after the fact. I'm actually working on a midi concertina that will hopefully make this kind of thing much easier at some point. Totally possible to include note names on the buttons. I didn't this time out of a sense that some G/D or Bb/F players might get tripped up, but I was probably over-thinking things. We can experiment and see if that's actually a problem.
Luke, thank you for the wonderful video. I love this song. I'm slightly confused watching this tutorial. You start off on the first D at the bottom of the treble clef which to me is a D4 (I'd play it LHS middle button middle row pull) but you play it on the RHS on the 2nd button pull middle row which is a D5. Is it normal for a song like this to transpose the melody up an octave to have full control over the LHS for harmony? So you play the first CEG chord (2nd note of the song) with a melody note on the RHS (middle row 2nd button in push E5) to cut through? I'm mainly a melody player currently with limited experience playing the harmony as well and I have better luck simply playing off the sheet music you've attached but when I referred to your tutorial video for guidance on chords and tricky parts I was thoroughly confused. Am I just wrong but I thought EGBDF on the treble clef lines was E4G4B4D5F5 and the FACE on treble clef spaces was F4A4C5E5.
Hi there! Yes- if you're trying to match the video to the sheet music exactly, that would be confusing. In general you do want to keep the melody on the right side and chords on the left for sanity. I kept the dots on the staff (as opposed to an octave higher) for readability, though as someone who plays almost entirely by ear I'm open to feedback on whether this is helpful. I do have a couple tunes I play an octave lower than is comfortable, where the melody crosses over onto the left side, but that way lies madness and I try not to make that my common practice.
Thank you Luke. That helps me wrap my head around this tune better. I think I'm going to have to work a bit on it to learn it in the way that you play it and in the end I will likely end up with an arrangement somewhere inbetween. This tutorial video will be tremendously useful as I progress on the song. I tend to play all my music straight off the sheet and sometimes this makes it very black and white with little grey area. As for the sheet music and keeping the dots on the staff for this particular song with regards to readability, you're completely correct. If the second part went all the way up to the high E several lines above the staff, it'd likely make it harder to read for most people, including myself. Much easier to read it in the octave you've put the dots on and then simply bring it up one octave by ear from there to allow for the chords to not drown out the melody. I think where I struggle the most is when I read amost notes (B/D/E) on a piece of sheet music, my first instinct is to keep the first finger first rule and use both the C and G row to play the tune, but when accompaniment is included, it makes little sense for playability to alternate rows as you end up playing the melody and harmony on the same sides at specific parts and as I mentioned, it drowns out the melody. Maybe that's why I've struggled to learn some songs written for piano on my anglo as I am trying to play the sheet music too literally in the octaves it's written. Afterall, music is about expression and the intervals between notes is where the tune takes shape. It doesn't matter much which octave it's in most of the time as long as the intervals are the same. Although, sometimes some tunes come out a bit off sounding when I play them on my baritone anglo since everything is transposed down an octave to begin with. Appreciate the insight. Wonderful as always. Keep up the good work!
Love your teaching technique! One question though: what is the most effective way to play the Em cord on the left hand? my fingers always get stuck trying to play the two buttons in the same column (e/f and b/c).
So sorry for the delay getting back to you! Yes, playing two notes in the same column is difficult. You probably already know it's a good practice not to play two notes with the same finger if you can avoid it, and also to avoid playing two notes in sequence with the same finger. The way I play the Em chord is: E - middle G - index B - ring It's tough at first, but you do get used to it. How quickly you get used to it can partially depend on the size of your hands and the spacing of your concertina's buttons. I'll make a video showing some of the weirder fingerings I use at some point. Hope this helps!
I would be cool if you made this in your latest button layout you used in "From Night 'til Morn" It helped me understand the song a lot better with that layout.
Thanks for this feedback. I agree; the split-button format probably works better for most people, myself included, so I'll be using that going forward. I'll see about re-doing this one at some point.
I’m a beginner and am all spun around. Am I crazy, or does the right hand fingering for this tune on a Wheatstone 30 button concertina match the right hand fingering on a 38 button Jefferies? I just learned the A part (right hand only) watching your original video and only now realize I have a different instrument!! So…I assume you would recommend I start over with this video’s arrangement? I can’t thank you enough for putting this together. I love the notation you created too!
Ah, hmm! I'm not sure I know exactly what you mean, but in the original video (the one with the 38b Jeffries), I was playing in F. On this video, I'm playing in G because a standard 30b Wheatstone doesn't have the high D on the pull that you need in the B part playing in F. In the key of G, the A part is *almost* the same for Wheatstone and Jeffries. The only difference would be the pull G5, which is one button to the right on the Jeffries relative to where it is on Wheatstone. Which layout do you have? I've got most of the standard layouts on anglopiano.com if that helps.
Aha. Thank you. That helped. That explains why my CG Wheatstone 30 and your CG Jefferies 38 were sounding the same. It was only a matter of time before I would have run into the problem of finding no way to play the high D on the pull you mentioned. Thanks for helping me dig myself out of this hole and learn more about this instrument at the same time. I’m looking forward to learning the tune!
There is one of the most beautiful tunes played by Cormac Ó Beaglaíoch, called Joe Bann's and The Gypsy Princess. Not sure if you have heard them, but would be amazing if you could play it on an Anglo Concertina and teach us with your technique. 🙏 No worries if no time, but just wondering. 😊
That is some beautiful music, thanks for mentioning it! I'll have to think about this. At the moment, I don't have a single Irish tune to my name, and the Irish style of playing is quite different to mine-all those complicated ornamentations! I definitely wouldn't be the best person to teach it, but give me a couple months and I'll see if I can manage something passable.
I'm happy to say that YES, you can play this on a 20-button concertina. The chords and phrasing won't be exactly the same, though. If your 20-button concertina is the standard layout, you won't be able to play the G/B chord, so you can just use G instead. The right-hand push A5 and pull G5 that I'm playing on my top row are available in the opposite bellows direction on your bottom row. Slightly different, but definitely playable!
@@lukehillman I tried it and it’s really work!, though I don’t understand the opposite bellows direction that you said very much can you explain it again?please
@@sudjaitangkeeree701 I mean, if I'm playing a note on the push, you might have to play it on the pull, and vice-versa. Probably easier to show rather than tell: luu.ke/music/oib-20b.pdf Hope this helps!
