Anglo Concertina from Beginner to Master

Anglo Concertina from Beginner to Master includes 72 tunes for the C/G 30-button Anglo concertina and uses a simple tablature system along with standard musical notation and multiple exercises to teach simple tunes in the home keys all the way up to complex classical arrangements. It also teaches tunes in different keys and different modes plus many types of ornamentation and styles of accompaniment.

Many of the tunes are from early 19th century concertina tutors and others are from historical 18th and 19th century tune books and manuscripts. In addition to several hymns, two classical Baroque pieces by Telemann and Westhoff are also notated and discussed.

The book is divided into chapters with each chapter being based around a different theme or style of concertina playing. Each of these chapters gets gradually more complex as it progresses and each chapter, overall, is more complex than the one that proceeds it. Each tune has been assigned an ability level from one to seven- taking you through from beginner to master.

Each selection has a Button Map showing which buttons are needed to play the tune, and has the same easy-to-use tablature system found in other Rollston Press concertina books.

And this book comes with video instruction! Every tune also has a smartphone-scannable QR code that links to a video of Cohen showing how the tune is played.

Working through all these tunes will not be easy, but thanks to the diligent teaching of master player Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne it will quickly develop and elevate your playing skills.

THE TUNES: All Around the Maypole See How They Trot, Beautiful Star, The Birmingham March, Bridgeford, Bryan O'Lynn, The Buds of May, Cambridge New, Cambridge Short Tune, The Cat's Polka, Chamberlain Election, The Christmas Tale, Colchester, Cotillon, Cure of all Grief, The Devil in a Bush, Dover, Ellingham Assembly, The Exile, Favourite Banjo Breakdown, The Fiddler's Jig, Fishes in the Sea, Freedom and Liberty, French March, Frogmore Farm, Grano's March, Harliquin Air, Holborn March, Honey Moon, King's Polka, Lady Cathcart, Litchfield Races, The London Camp, The Magic Girdle, Maid in the Wood, Marey's Dream, The Martyrs Tune, Marybone Assembly, Minasi Number 3, Minasi Waltz Number 7, Miss Gayton's Hornpipe, Nineteenth of May, Now or Never, Oxford Tune, Paddy Wack, The Philosopher's Jigg, Prince William, Rakish Highlandman, Rattling Morgan, Sailor's Hornpipe, Saxon Hornpipe, Spring's Waltz, Such a Wife as Willy Had, Take a Dance, Tekeli, Telemann's 5th Fantasia - First Movement, Telemann's 5th Fantasia - Second Movement, Telemann's 5th Fantasia - Third Movement, Telemann's 5th Fantasia for solo flute, The Tempest, Trip to London, Two and Two, Tyroler Waltzer, The Unfortunate Cup of Tea, Union Waltz, The Vesper's Hymn, Waltz, Welsh Fusiliers, West Cottage Hornpipe, Westhoff's 4th Partita - Allemande, Westhoff's 4th Partita - Courante, Westhoff's 4th Partita - Gigue, Westhoff's 4th Partita - Sarabande, Westhoff's 4th Partita for solo violin, Westwood Park, When once I lay with another Man's Wife, Wilkes's Wriggle, Windsor Terrace.