The Jacques MORNET’s method

The educational method basements allow you to become an authentic artist.

When one asks Jacques Mornet the following question: ” What makes, in a general way, originality and success of your educational system?”, he answers:
" If I had to summarize in two words, I would say: Searching feeling. To teach technique is not difficult, but to make so that this technique serves musicality is pretty harder”.
On the occasion of training courses, seminaries, Master-classes, one often asks me this question : Which skills do we have to possess to become a " good teacher "?
I invariably answer:

• You first have to be an authentic musician (deep sensibility, natural feeling), fundamental condition.
• You must like people, young people, be able to start contact and know how to motivate, convince, pull on, and pass on passion.
• Remain natural, do not try to copy or look like whoever it is. It is necessary to keep faith in his own personality: one will love it or hate it but never stay indifferent".

Jacques MORNET has worked out an educational technique, inspired by that for wind instruments (especially saxophone), to serve accordion, completely innovative and developing. The main characteristics are:
- Sound attack requiring a preliminary tension (inspiration) as well as a combined hand and finger attack (replacing the tongue-attack).
- Under compression air column setting and sounds spinnings.
- Round and warm sound emission in the slow and melodic parts ( legato )
- Brush-touch of keys in the fast and technical parts (louré ) bringing to keys-touch fluidity and beauty.
- Obtaining a real staccato (generated by a movement of the arm, even of the wrist, and especially not by a finger levying - This gesture is inspired by the pianists play) which allows to give the musical sentence presence and relief.
- Real and full body and intellect participation, underlining the musical act.