Hey Orville, remember that band that was featured under the topic "The Lost Style Makes a Comeback"? They were called Plaquemine Brulee? The accordion player plays Les Flammes D'enfer right at the beginning. Well, you can see his fingers in that video. That's the first step to learning it like Austin Pitre. Listen to it and watch it over and over and attempt with your "C" accordion. Combine that video with listening to the Austin Pitre version posted by THE BLUE MAX on the very first post of this very thread. The sound of both videos matches up to a "C" accordion very well. I like to set the Austin Pitre video to "Loop" and play along over and over again while I sit back in my chair with my feet up, then fall asleep listening to it as it loops all night long in my ear. LOL, I started learning Pitre's version when BLUE MAX posted Plaquemine Brulee playing it and Bryan pointed out their version of Les Flammes as being good. All together, it feels like I've put about 5 hours into it. I try to play it at least twice every time I pick up my accordions and I'll keep doing this until the song haunts me in my sleep! That is the secret to learning every song in the Cajun genre. You have to want to learn it. And you have to know the tune by heart. Oh yeah,....you also have to know your key board and the multiple button combinations hiding therein to copy songs and also pin your own style to it. Remember, playing a song at different speeds from the original is NOT A CRIME! It is the road to find your very own rhythm. And that keyboard....play the whole keyboard every chance you get even though it may sound wrong. Do it until you can make it sound right.

Dam Orville, I had to come back for a repost because the "edit" option timed out on me.

Austin Pitre is doing a little trick right after the intro and base melody line of Les Flammes D'enfer. You can hear it if you listen close. Its a quick little shuffle and he keeps doing it through out the whole song. That will be the hardest part to learn for most accordion players.

I became more aware of that little shuffle and others similar to it when I started listening very closely to Nathan Abshire two steps and those got dam nearly impossible turns or (B parts) he'd throw on them. To name two "Fee Fee Poncho" and "Domino Two Step". Nathan Abshire and Austin Pitre are tied to one another with these secret quick shuffles. "These Shuffles" first entered my conscious a long time ago when I'd watched two old men play "regional" versions of "The Crowley Two Step", "T'en As Eu T'en Auras Plus", and "Johnny Can't Dance". Now, these unique versions cannot be found anywhere because they've died with the men who played them and unfortunately, they were not recorded. The only place they exist are in the memories of a few people. I'm one of those people thank god!. Good news though, those little "shuffles" can be found here and there on youtube and old recordings of Nathan Abshire, Austin Pitre, Aldus Roger, and others. And in some cases, they can be slowed down on the video to be heard and learned. Hell, even Iry Lejeune uses some of these same "shuffles" in that very ornate and mystic playing style of his. They're there, if you listen for them. Even better if you can watch them being done by an accordion player, but that wont happen anymore unless you can find a master that can still do it.>>greezy mcgill<<. LOL, I hope I don't have to live up to that claim and show you guys. I'd rather see others do it on their own, just like I did just by learning that IT IS POSSIBLE!

Here is something for you Boudreaux. I was able to learn Nathan Abshire's Domino Two Step (hicks wagon wheel) because I learned the turn of "The Rabbit Stole the Pumpkin" by Blind Uncle Gaspard back in my novice years. Try and make sense of that tid bit of information. I'm still trying to make sense of it. But for some reason, it worked for me! Through my own mishaps and cultivation of my own style of playing, those two songs and their "turns" came together for me by the way they sounded to my ear and felt to my hands on the accordion, and probably no one else on Earth had the same experience. Often times, one song will help you find another. Listen to many and try them all! Like I've said many times before, "You have your whole life to learn." And hopefully, my friends, that will be enough time.

Great stuff Greezy McSkill!

You're inspiring me to get back trying to learn this cool ol stuff.

Playing the accordion behind your head is fun too!

Ha! AJ I played the accordion behind my head once. I found I couldn't play too well. I knew two people, they were brothers. They grew up as young boys with one accordion in the household. Very competitive they were. Before you knew it they were double teaming that one accordion. One man would stand in front and either play the base or treble side with one hand. The other would stand behind him and hold on to the back of his belt with one hand and reach through and play whatever side of the accordion his brother in the front wasn't playing. Yes, this is a well known parlor trick now a days. But these guys were doing it in the 1930's. It has since evolved into the two accordion players sitting side by side and playing on one accordion. Either way, it takes great knowledge of the accordion and the music being played and a good sense of feel for the instrument and it's rhythms, but I never really wanted to try doing it. It just seemed like an attention getting stunt to me. These two men lived right down the road from Jesse Lege, or he lived right down the road from them. I know for a fact that Jesse would visit with at least one of these old men in the old days. Jesse Leger is a fine example of the "regional style" these two old men played. We'll call it the Highway 14 regional style. These two brothers were steeped in the HWY 14 style. They influenced a few musicians in their community. If I'm not mistaken, Jesse Leger can be seen playing two man accordion with Walter Mouton on YouTube. Jesse became aware of two man accordion because of these two brothers.
It is most certainly a very small world. And it all happened just off of HWY 14.

It's a really interesting thread.
This is the way I learned les Flammes.

Looks like Gainey Arsement. Sounds like Gainey Arsement. Is it Gainey, or is it Orville, or both?

Nedro it's 100% Ganey.

Sounds a bit like fe fe poncho that version.

(And lots of great suggestions in the right column, particularly Blind Uncle Gaspard's beautiful songs, some I had never heard).