Melodeon techniques for all.  Although sub-titled Absolute Beginners this book, by Dave Mallinson, will take students to a very high standard. Beginning at absolute rock-bottom with how to play scales, it quickly moves on to basic fingering techniques. The student then learns how to play the bass in time, with in depth analysis of how the treble and bass interact. Next comes row crossing techniques to smooth the bellows and to create better harmonies, followed by a more tasteful approach to the bass. The book finishes with accidentals, minor keys, slides, slip jigs and the key of A. Contains 30 topics, 48 tunes, introduction and a foreword by Andy Cutting

• Foreword by Andy Cutting
• Introduction
• The Squeezebox Family
• Music Basics for Squeezers
• Introducing the D/G Melodeon
• Holding the Melodeon
• The Air Button
• The High Octave
• The Treble Buttons
• Counting Time
• Major Keys
• Minor Keys
• Shifting Hand Position
• Introducing the Bass Buttons
• Playing the Bass in Time
• Various Rhythms
• Crossing the Rows
• The Basses
• Playing the Other Bass Buttons
• Um Cha Through Some Easy Tunes
• Smoothing the Bellows Action
• The Other Chord in the key of D
• Fundamentals and Chords
• Playing the Bass in Harmony
• Percussive Bass : No Bass
• Drones and Snappy Off-Beats
• Accidentals
• A minor and B minor
• Slides and Slip Jigs
• The Key of A
• The Variable Buttons
• Transposing
• Hot Cross Buns!
• Baa Baa Black Sheep
• Jingle Bells
• Little Brown Jug
• Mulberry Bush
• Oranges and Lemons
• Bobby Shaftoe
• Three Blind Mice
• Whip Jamboree
• Drunken Sailor
• Silent Night
• The Best of Society
• Frère Jacques
• Egan’s Polka
• What Can the Matter Be?
• Cock of the North
• Katie Bairdie
• The Keel Row
• Polly Put the Kettle On
• Skip to My Lou
• Shepherds’ Hey
• Tralee Gaol
• I Have a Bonnet
• Donkey Riding
• Buffalo Girls
• Uncle Bernard’s Polka
• Rakes of Mallow
• Davy Davy Knick Knack
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
• Bonny Green Garters
• Rodney
• Liza Jane
• Constant Billy
• The Twenty-Ninth of May
• Sweet Jenny Jones
• My Darling Asleep
• The Steamboat
• Sonny’s Mazurka
• Speed the Plough
• Soldiers’ Joy
• Staten Island
• A Trip to the Cottage
• The Tenpenny Bit
• Tripping Upstairs
• The Scattery Island Slide
• Drops of Brandy
• Bill Sullivan's Polka
• Sweeney’s Polka