Pinned Post
Advanced Django: "Mit mur Geige" and "Black and White"
Download the lead sheets for the tunes:
Pinned Post
Download the lead sheets for the tunes:
The peracetic acid market size was valued at USD 939.30 million in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 1694.01 million by 2032, with a CAGR of 7.65% during the forecast period of 2025 to 2032.

Peracetic acid, also known as peroxyacetic acid (PAA), is an organic chemical compound recognized for its strong oxidizing properties and powerful disinfectant capabilities. It is widely used as a sanitizer and sterilizing agent across industries such as food and beverage, healthcare, water treatment, and agriculture. Its effectiveness against bacteria, fungi, and viruses, combined with its environmentally friendly breakdown into acetic acid, oxygen, and water, has made it a preferred choice over traditional disinfectants. As industries increasingly adopt sustainable and efficient sanitation practices, the global peracetic acid market continues to expand steadily.
Hi:
Euro Café Duo is a captivating musical pair based in Kingston, Ontario, featuring Andrea Leyton’s enchanting vocals and Edward (Ted) Leyton’s versatile digital piano accordion. Specializing in a romantic blend of European music, their repertoire spans Parisienne and Italian genres, alongside Broadway hits, Latin tunes, jazz standards, and easy-listening classics. Known for creating a dreamy café ambiance, they perform at various venues, from weddings and corporate events to local restaurants and street busking, delighting audiences of all ages with their professional, wireless audio setup and emotive performances.
Mailing List! Everyone is invited to our Euro Café Duo website mailing list at www.eurocafeduo.com You get a free song download when you do. And... we have an album you can download too. Looking forward to chatting with like-minded accordionists. Cheers Ted
Liquor chocolate has long been associated with indulgence, luxury, and adult sophistication. By marrying premium spirits with rich, velvety chocolate, this unique confection continues to evolve beyond novelty into a refined experience sought after by chocolate lovers and spirit enthusiasts alike. In 2025, liquor chocolate is not only expanding in flavor but also embracing innovation, sustainability, and artisanal craftsmanship.
Innovative Flavor Pairings Are Redefining the Liquor Chocolate Experience
Traditional liquor chocolates have focused on classics like dark chocolate with whiskey or milk chocolate with rum. However, the trend in 2025 is to go beyond the expected. Chocolatiers are now introducing bold pairings such as mezcal with chili-infused dark chocolate, bourbon with salted caramel centers, and even absinthe truffles for a daring twist.
Asian spirits like Japanese sake and Korean soju are also making their way into the premium liquor chocolate market, bringing lighter, more floral notes to complement white or…
I'm sorry I'll miss the next few Accordion Yoga classes. I'll watch the videos and catch up with you all in July.
Sharon
Hey everyone !
And hello Dallas.
First, thanks for all your amazing classes. Can't wait to be this summer and have to suscribe and follow your class!
My question is about rootless chords (6/9) and Open chords
The fundamental question is : is there a preferential note order ?
Rootless Chords :
4 Tips to Make Your Jazz and Swing Good:
Play more detatched articulations
Add half step below grace notes
Work on your swing feel - work on the triplet idea
Anticipate in your phrasing
I recently came across you channel on YOUTUBE, and although I"m a beginner and most of this is over my head. I liked your presentation and am gonna jump in with both feet. I look forward to learning more!
Livestream: Apr 22, 2025


Hey Guys,
I have a small accordion with only five rows on my left hand, without the diminished chord button row. For "Irisha" (that I find really really cool) I have been helping myself playing the C° and C#° Chords with 3 Base and Counterbase single tone buttons and with the "Frank Marocco Left Hand Accompaniment", it seems to kinda work. I wanted to ask, whether any of you guys also uses chords composed only of base tones, is this practiced by accordion players?


Sorry this is so late! PLease post your FINAL check in here.
Chapter 12 is titled “Recovering a Sense of Faith.” In this final chapter, Cameron focuses on the importance of trusting the creative process and embracing a sense of possibility and openness to a greater creative force—what she often calls the “Great Creator” or creative flow. She encourages readers to recognize that the journey of artistic recovery is ongoing, and that the completion of this twelve-week course is really the beginning of a lifelong path toward creative growth.
A central theme in this chapter is the concept of believing without seeing—placing faith in your creative instincts and ideas even when there’s no tangible proof or immediate result. Cameron emphasizes that creativity often involves uncertainty, and part of the artist’s role is learning to live with and even welcome that uncertainty. This sense of faith is described not in a…
1) I remember writing incompletely on alternating afternoons.
2) There was no date according to plan.
3) I wanted a full sized accordion, and found one on craigslist.
4) One page in on a morning page when trying to sell my fifteen year old accordion bought used from another seller, I made sure to finish the song I was playing, rode my ebike 30 miles while wearing the accordion like a backpack and carrying an empty case with alternating hands, and busked in a shopping center while failing to meet the buyer in person. I pray to Christ that I can put my heart into whatever I set out to learn.
Acceptance
Accepting two ideas:
Artists may be broke or doing okay with money - and that has nothing to do with the true value of the art or the artist.
Artists must live a life that nurtures the artist-child-spirit, in all the ways that might seem unconventional, quirky, even irresponsible. And when we do that, the responsibilities will be easier to achieve and get done.
Art is life: life is art. We must live our art every day. Give to ourselves the gift of making art and being creative.
Success
I've missed two days out of seven for morning pages and I'm blanking out on what I wrote about. I noticed that I speak more of what I mean when I write.
No artist date this week.
My grandfather did screenprinting to raise money for the family and I did screenprinting in college three years ago.
I ran out of pages on my second notebook and didn't want to fetch another one, so I continued pages on a laptop.
(Only two more weeks!)
In this chapter, Cameron focuses on how artists and creatives can protect their newfound creativity and artistic growth. She highlights common obstacles that can sabotage creative progress and offers strategies to safeguard one’s artistic journey.
Dangers of Creative Sabotage
Cameron discusses how, after making progress, artists often encounter self-sabotage. This can come in the form of toxic relationships, self-doubt, fear of success, or procrastination.
She encourages readers to be aware of these destructive patterns and take steps to counter them.
The Role of Workaholism
I've done morning pages five out of six days. Reading my pages has brought me cringe. I can freely write down action plans that I would have taken without forethought.
This week, I stayed for a webinar. The last artist date to a Swan Lake ballet got me out of a drought. I was not seeing the purpose of my pages, but I'm glad that I can accept art the way it is.
I saw a double chamber accordion for sale, but buying it and coming back home requires me to take time off. I don't know if this is what I really want, but my accordion has air leaks and gets quiet high notes on piccolo reeds.
I like overtime. I like work challenges. This keeps me from doing sedentary learning like with music theory. I've heard from a professor that my drawings were noisome. Pointing towards the sides of the canvas makes art look edgy. It might be my own nervousness from being vulnerable. My ego says, "I have to be at work to make money. I have to be of service to the disabled." "Be vulnerable or people will get mad at the blocks I form from connecting." These are struggles from creating. Yesterday, I greeted visitors at work more profoundly and with the most authentic yet cringy smile I could produce.
I talked about:
My Barry Harris block chord work out in my practice cycle
How to make the block chords for: major 6, minor 6, minor 7, dominant chords, diminished chords
Nos and Yesses for playing with Guitarists, as an accordion player
the absolute importance of shedding your COMPING! It's what you're going to do the most
creating a variety of energies and vibes in your comping
Hi Dallas, I loved your discussion on depressing the piano keys and buttons part way. You inspired me to add the following to my warm up routine. Cheers, Hugh

WARM UP ROUTINE: PLAYING ON THE CUSHION OF AIR
Pick a scale or phrase. Slowly play the scale or phrase with hands separate then hands together while focusing on playing on the cushion of air:
Breath to relax the body
Positive inner dialogue to relax the body
Imagine you are inside the accordion
Imagine there’s a cushion of air moving through the accordion
Imagine your left arm and back muscles are strong yet relaxed keeping a constant pressure on the cushion of air moving through the accordion
Imagine your fingers are relaxed and your fingertips are playing on the cushion of air
Focus on connecting to the cushion of air by gently pressing the piano key or button only part way
Focus on how the resistance of the piano key or button connects to the cushion of air
Focus on disconnecting from the cushion of air by slowly controlling the release of the piano key or button
Don’t focus on the mechanics of moving your fingers
Don't focus on the mechanics of opening and closing the reed valves
Playing on the cushion of air improves tone quality, reduces overtones, gives a better sounding beginning and ending of the note, uses a lot less air, gives us a lot more control over the air and makes the accordion more responsive and agile like a sports car
This chapter is about acknowledging and healing our artistic losses.
Survival
This section has two core ideas:
We must acknowledge, mourn and thereby heal our artistic losses. The critiques that come from the loss can be reframed as learning to make our art better.
The learning environment, specifically academia and higher education, can damage us in that it doesn't encourage the artist - rather academia focuses on criticism and taking art apart.
We are told that we must mourn/acknowledge the loss/pain of our younger artist selves.
Thank you for summarizing the chapter.
I did one morning page this week. It had made me felt like I accomplished something that day, but I couldn't resist playing the accordion or dancing the other days.
No, I did not do my artist date. Instead, I sat down, closed my eyes, and observed my thoughts as much I could before giving into accordion playing. I felt in control of the present moment when it came back to accordion playing.
I saw a dead cat with an abdomen avulsion at around the time I handled a conflict with a truculent co-worker. In regard to jealous haters, I focused on what I had to do, and the troubles handled themselves.
I had a great time performing in the eyes of people I do not normally see. On the other hand, the people I spend more time with want to hear The White Stripes and Metallica, but I don't play songs from rock bands on the accordion. I'm prioritizing myself and forming boundaries until I can come back and give with a sense of abundance.
"Sweet Chorus" is kinda a mash up of an 1930s 8-bar blues melody, and a mysterious and atmospheric miniature composition by a French Impressionist composer like Debussy or Ravel.
Chromatically ascending chords
Bars 5-6 of the A section form feature an iconic Django compositional tool, which is a chord shape which moves chromatically. In this case it's a dominant 7 chord which goes Eb7, E7, F7. I'll explain the best way to play this movement in the left hand, as well as ideas for chord voicings in the right hand, and ideas for improvisation over this section.
Mysterious sounds from the whole tone scale
Thanks for writing out the exercise in detailed steps. I haven’t done much with the syncpated chord shapes in the right hand but it seems a good way to even approach the melody. I could see using it as a chorus in the jazz sandwich.
Listening
This section describes that the art we are seeking is about letting it out of us, and we do not have to think in high lofty concepts for great art.
We are told to be ready and just listen to the creative impulses and urges, they are there, we just need to follow them.
We are also told to remember that the universe wants us to create, we are to put our faith in the universe that it will give us what we want.
Perfectionism
The correct way to approach perfectionism is to allow for the unfinished details to be worked out later with time, not to stay stuck reworking things over and over and over.
All pages were done across the week. I daydream of advertising myself at an ice cream truck or food stand down the streets of a third world country. What does Julie Cameron mean by childhood loves? I saw childhood peers in my dream, and consciously ran away from them at Balboa park in Los Angeles.
I hope practicing accordion suffices as an artist date. Most of the time, I think about how to make money or changing jobs. SpAnish for DUmmies showed me how to speak with Accents.
I binge videos, but when I study anything, situations regarding the topics I study come to my awareness. For example, after finishing SuperAdobe home building class at CalEarth, I see people interested in homebuilding.
I get urges to play Spanish, but express it through spoken language instead. I have haters for being myself, and I know that I better change departments. I don't want to play music around haters, but I can make space to play it away from them. Far away.
Community Member
Tier 1 Member
Community Member
A Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) is a security solution designed to monitor, detect, and prevent unauthorized access and threats within a wireless network. Unlike traditional firewalls that focus on wired connections, WIPS specifically protects Wi-Fi networks by continuously scanning the radio frequency (RF) spectrum to identify rogue access points, unauthorized devices, and unusual behavior that may indicate a security breach. It plays a critical role in defending against attacks such as man-in-the-middle, denial of service (DoS), and eavesdropping, which are common in unsecured or poorly managed wireless environments.
WIPS works by deploying sensors or integrating directly with access points to monitor all wireless traffic in real-time. Once a threat or suspicious activity is detected, the system can automatically block or quarantine the device, alert network administrators, and log the event for further analysis. This proactive defense mechanism is essential in environments where sensitive data is transmitted over wireless networks, such as in healthcare, finance, and government sectors. By providing comprehensive wireless threat detection and response, WIPS enhances the overall cybersecurity posture of organizations relying on wireless connectivity.
Latest Published Reports by Emergen Research:
https://www.emergenresearch.com/industry-report/orthokeratology-lens-market
https://www.emergenresearch.com/industry-report/cleanroom-technology-market
https://www.emergenresearch.com/industry-report/deoxyribonucleic-acid-polymerase-market
https://www.emergenresearch.com/industry-report/sex-toys-market
https://www.emergenresearch.com/industry-report/caprolactam-market