Sam Falcetti Introduces his 7 Pop Music Ideas Books to the Accordion World
April 1st 2021
Rita Davidson Barnea, Editor Accordion USA News

Back in the early 60’s, Sam started writing his Pop Music Ideas so that hundreds of accordion students at the Falcetti Music stores could have fun playing all of the current songs. The books helped the students to incorporate the different rhythms and rock beats of the 60’s. He also thought it was important that the students learn the theory behind dressing up a song.
Sam feels that it is important that teachers not just write the embellishments in, otherwise the student never learns how to do this on their own. Also during this period, Sam, who has a B.M. in Theory & Composition from the University of Hartford, CT. figured out how to walk the basses in the left hand and play more interesting bass and chord combinations instead of just oom-pah.
Bill Palmer and Bill Hughes, who were performing artists at the Falcetti Music Concerts in the 60’s, perused the first 3 Pop Music Ideas books and made the comment that they hadn’t seen anything like them in the entire United States. By the time we reached the early 70’s, Mr. Falcetti completed his 7th book.
With the knowledge gained from the books, many of Falcetti Music’s students began performing in bands throughout Western Massachusetts and Connecticut. Fast forward to the last five years, Sam has given many workshops for Falcetti Music, AAA, MAAA, Accordion’s Now, and the IDEAS Digital Accordion Symposium. Most of the attendees knew little or nothing about the contents of these books, and thought they were just written a couple of years ago. Sam has recently updated all 7 of his Pop Music Ideas books.
For more information, please email samfalcetti@gmail.com or call Sam at 413-204-5522.