Easy Anglo 1-2-3: A Beginner's Guide to the Anglo Concertina Paperback – 12 Mar. 2015

Just right for a L plated concertina player, gets you going straight away with a c scale and chord then little fills which sound good and after a few pages into well known songs. If you don't read music then the authors tab system mates well enough with the music score. Enough pages to whet the appetite and and start the journey well on. Good price to including postage so very pleased.Mention was made that this book could have a cd accompaniment but most of the book songs can be found on Utube posted by the author himself (angloconc) which is an ever better compliment to this book and also keeps the price down.

I bought several books to get me going on the concertina and have so far found this one the best in terms of the tunes in the book (more familiar to me so easier to learn) and the entabulation system is by far the simplest for me. I can already read music but you really need a system with the push-pull nature of the instrument and his seems the most complementary to "normal" music. Everyone will be different in what works for them though.

Illustrates correct choice of buttons to play scales and tunes.Much info on playing in C but I play mainly D and G

A better guide to the Anglo Concertina for beginners would be hard to imagine. This tutor starts right at the very beginning with one-row tunes, works through two-row and finally using all three rows of a thirty- button instrument. It guides you slowly but surely to quite a reasonable level of playing; at which time you will be ready for the more advanced book by Mr Coover: Anglo Concertina in the Harmonic Style.

Great book to get me started learning the concertina - use of PDQ codes to take you to video clips of tunes being played is very handy.

Clear, easy to understand, covers everything I need to know.

Excellent book. I’m only a beginner but I have learnt so much from this. Sight reading is not my strong point but the way the music is written, anyone can learn and follow.

Good but a word of caution to anyone starting out. Get one system to learn from first I bought a number of these books after I had bought another book by a different author as you would expect they have different styles or methods of teaching and they are just different enough to confuse if you try and learn from a few different sources at the beginning. Great though can get a tune out of it now.