Good accordion practice

Pleased to manage some accordion practice, despite my neurological illness. Playing my own arrangements of The Final Countdown, Valse d’Amelie, Charade’s Bateau Mouche, The Dark Island, Bergerac theme, Lambada, Allo Allo, Sunrise Sunset, and Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I started doing my own accordion arrangements 18 months ago, frustrated that there were many tunes I wanted to play but didn’t have proper accordion music for. I use sheet music notation software program Notion. Arranging is a marvellous mix of creativity, music and logic puzzles. And I get good playable music at the end from it.

This practice was on my wee compact 48 bass accordion I bought from Germany over Christmas. I store it in the bedroom and can usually even manage to get it out myself, though Martin is always happy to help. It can’t play as many notes or chords as my 72 bass Italian box, so it is a bit of a compromise. But it’s very handy, given my neurological illness.

Chronicles of Amber series

Bought myself a newly published 5-book Kindle omnibus of Chronicles of Amber books by Roger Zelazny. I’ve wanted to read these fantasy books for years, but had to wait for the ebook versions to come, so I could read with the utterly gigantic font my neuro illness needs. Looking forward to it! There’s another omnibus Amber ebook collection coming out later this year.