I play piano accordion and I am into French Canadian music BIG TIME and what seems to be traditional is the foot percussion (sitting down) while they are playing.(The Fiddler with La Bottine does it) Well I liked it so much I learn't how to do it and now I play while dancing. The way I found I could do it was to slow every thing down so you can trace each step to a note then you keep repeating that until it becomes flowing and natural. Now I can do the percussion on any tune and when I do do it it really takes the tune in to a completely different place than if I only played the tune, after all music is for dancing to!

Cheers, Sam