Ok, So I’ve been learning the Accordion that past 2 days. It’s been amazing! I’ve had this accordion some friends gave me for months in my music room. But I was so intimidated. I’d only taken it out once, and it was so loud and heavy, I put it quickly back in.
Well, when I was on tour a few weeks ago through CA’s Central Coast, one of the performers only played Accordion. Yeti was her name (Pronounced Jeti), and besides being cool because she’s from Paris, she was also super awesome and fun. She really inspired me to come home and pick up my accordion (and I also learned it’s an ‘o’ not an ‘a’ at the end of accordion!
So, I’ve been watching these YouTube Videos trying to teach myself. I’m getting a lesson with my friend Sunday, who actually does play accordion in my band (and she also did inspire me- let’s not forget Femke!)
So, all that to say, I just recorded myself playing (and singing) my song “Hold Me” that has accordion as the lead instrument- so what better song to start with, I thought. Well, guess what, I got through it! Not so gracefully, but I didn’t miss a bass note and at least got through it, which was my goal.
If you didn’t know, I’m a music teacher as well as a performer. I teach a handful of students on a weekly basis and they totally enrich my life! A lot of times when they hear me sing, they tell me they’re so intimidated and I must’ve just been born with it. Well, first of all, I wasn’t, and this little audio clip is to prove it.
Listening to myself in such a beginner stage is hilarious and totally humbling. But it’s really fun being a student as an adult, and even funnier to me being a pro musician and then trying to learn a new instrument and sounding like such a beginner!
I’m hoping my all my piano skills and music theory will come in handy, and I’m sure it is, but it’s SO fun to be learning this instrument and something new. I hope you enjoy the track and that it makes you feel really good about yourself- and let’s all go learn something new and feel like a kid again!!! :)
