Bulgarian Accordion Tutorial - Technical Drills (Only)

Basic Drills

NameAimsMotif
LEGATO1 2 finger rocking. Details
LEGATO2 Smooth fingering used in many descending drills. Details
LEGATO3 3 fingering rocking at single tripod station. Details
LEGATO4 Transition between 2 stations via common finger pivot. Details
LEGATO5 5-finger legato (after Hanon) Details
LEGATO6 5-finger legato (after Hanon) Details
REPEAT1 Smooth repeats with alternate fingers (descending). Details
REPEAT2 Smooth repeats with alternate fingers (ascending). Details
REACH1 Basic reaches above and below. Details
REACH2 Double drop notes. Details
REACH3 Reaches using palm. Details
REACH4 Asymettric palm reaches with finger 2. Details
REACH5 Asymmetric palm reaches with finger 3. Details
REACH6 Extended tripods with constant wrist angle, thumb insertion. Details
REACH7 Extended tripods with varied wrist angles, thumb insertion. Details
GLIDE1 Upward glide with finger 1. Details
GLIDE2 Upward and downward glides with finger 2. Details
GLIDE3 Upward and downward glides with finger 3. Details
GLIDE4 Combined glides on 2 and 3. Details
SCALE4 4 note scalewise motion Details
SCALE5 5-note scalewise motion Details
SCALE7 1213 fingering practice Details
SCALEH 8 note hijaz scales Details

Prall Drills

NameAimsMotif
PRALL1 Pralls in prepared station. Details
PRALL2 Pralls in slowly changing stations. Details
PRALL3 Pralls in quickly changing stations. Details
PRALL4 Changing wrist angles and thumb insertion. Details
PRALL5 Consecutive pralls. Details
PRALL6 Finger 3 angle changes as 232 pralls approached from above. Details
PRALL7 Extended tripod prall (5th). Use left thumb rock preparation. Details
PRALL8 Most extended tripod prall (6th). Details

New Pralls Drills

NameAimsMotif
NPRALL1 Simple 23 pralls from above Details
NPRALL2 Simple 23 pralls from below Details
NPRALL3 Complex 23 pralls from above Details
NPRALL4 Complex 23 pralls from below Details
NPRALL5 23 pralls from above & below Details

Ballad Drills

NameAimsMotif
BALLAD1 Stable back and forth crossing. Details
BALLAD2 Longer phrase version of above. Details
BALLAD3 Long note flows into ornament. Details
BALLAD4 Rolls with pause. Details
BALLAD5 Shope ballad style repeated notes. Details
BALLAD6 Shope style ballad extend phrase. Details

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