Re: Anyone study Intermediate Cajun Accordion by Steve Riley?
A friend recently lent me this one. Havn't spent much time with it yet but got it for the purpose of learning "La Vie Je Croyais Je Voulais".
He doesn't break things down as much as Dirk Powell but he does slow it down and everything is very clear with a zoom in window on the treble, plus like you say he is an awesome player to learn from. Was fortunate enough to see The Mamou playboys last year and could'nt help but dance even though j' ne pas dancez!
I reckon Brett Thibodeaux's youtube lessons are very good and of course you'll be familiar with Chris Miller's- easy to take in, hard to take off!
Re: Anyone study Intermediate Cajun Accordion by Steve Riley?
Hi, Tommy.
I don't recall many triplets on the Riley Intermediate DVD. In fact, Steve Riley doesn't play a lot of triplets. One fellow who does, Steve's cousin, is Wilson Savoy. Wilson has a DVD "Wilson Savoy, Cajun Rhythm and Improvisation" available on his website http://www.almenapictures.com/. Chapter 2 is devoted entirely to triplets.
FYI Steve Riley explained a triplet to me as 3 notes spanning one beat, using two adjacent buttons both on the same push or pull, with the 3rd note played with a bellows reversal on the 2nd button. I was taught that any 3 notes in one beat made a triplet, but the Cajun accordion definition seems to require the bellows reversal.
Learning to play a triplet is one thing, but learning where a triplet fits is yet another.
For usage of the triplet, there is no better example than Marc Savoy who plays them profusely. Pick a song - any song he plays - and it will have 'em.
Re: Anyone study Intermediate Cajun Accordion by Steve Riley?
mmm ... I don't know triplets is the right word! That's just how I call them. But there might be another term for that. Anyway: in Cajun waltzes and blues I think this is an essential ingredient to tweak tunes and songs.