Learn to play piano, keyboard or accordeon

From my Finnish blog http://musiikkipaivakirja.blogspot.fi

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Here advices for keys and for reading notes, but play only roughly according to the notes and in practise play reaching for the sound of music, like you feel to be charming, fascinating and impressive, touching feelings, in ways that see life richly. Choose the songs according to what you like and are interested in just then, each time separately and not somehow rigidly, since rigid formal ways do not sound so beautiful and does not fascinate so much and so one does not learn as much so doing. 

I have written this:

Learn to play keyboard

"...get so a nice hobby, if she hasn'r before played any instrument. One thing that comes to my mind is that you would find somewhere an ordinary songbook with songs that interest her, with lyrics and notes too. Reading notes is propably for an adult easier to learn tahn for a child: The note scripture has five lines with the help of which you see the height of each note. A note can be either on a line or between two lines. The hgher a note is on the scripture, the higher it is played. So on a piano or keyboard a move from a line to the neighbouring space between lines means moving from a white key to it's neighbouring white key. Upwards on the lines means toward higher notes and that is toward right on the piano or keyboard, and downwards is toward lower sounds and that is toward left on the keys. In the beginning it is propably enough to be able to read right hand notes but for future use it would be good to start reading the notes from middle-C, which is a white key on the left side of two neighbouring black keys and in the notes on the first helping line under the notes, and helping lines are of course counted like the five lines: one shift from line to between the lines means changing from one white key to it's neighbouring white key. The lenghts of the notes, which means how long they are played, are the following: in the middle hollw without staff: whole measure in the middle hollow with a staff: half a measure in the middle filled which means single colour, with a staff: a quarter of a measure in the middle filled with a staff with one tail: an eight part of a measure Neighbouring notes with staffs joined by tilted lines correspond to notes with staffs with as many tails.   It is enough to play the lkenghts only roughly and by listening to the music's sound decide the right lenght according to what sounds nice, musical. The black keys are marked with the help of the white keys: Neighbouring black key at the right side of a white key is marked like a peice of a stick fence in the note describing the white key. Neighbouring black key on the left side of a white key is marked by b in the note meant for the white key. Usually these lifted and lowered notes stay the same on each row, so they are usually marked in the beginning, in the left side of the row and apply to all notes on that row on those heights. That was all. Then just go and find an easy nice song...

Twice a day would be a good rythm for learning. The practise sessions can be of any leghts: what feels nice and does not tire. That one attempts at least something in the same subject area,keep the already learned things better in memory, and so one does not need to repeat so much and can learn at least a little bit new.

13. tammikuuta 2011 klo 15.01 Oh, a dot after a note means that it is played one and a half times longer.

Hi It came to my mind that at least I recognize notes better via landmarks, but of course via time one learns the pöaces of all notes on the keyboard. For me landmarks are in addition to C, at least H which is the white key at the right side of three blacks, which is at the middle line of the scripture, and F which is white key at the left side of three blacks and in the scripture between two lowest lines. Typically when one lifts notes, one lifts either only F or then F and C. And typically when one lowers notes, one lowers either only H or then H and E. But of course it is possible to lift or lower more notes. The letters referring to the notes are: C, D, E, F, G, A, H  and again C, D, E,... So lifting and lowering apply to all notes with the same name, even if at different heights. Letters correspond to how the keys are structured. (One sequence is called octave, for example C to C.) In many songs one plays quite glidingly at approximate the same height, but not in all. It propably makes the song easier to play. .I guess that the first song should be easy and fascinating, whatever that is for each one. From a songbook of 150 songs one is likely to find something... Nice moments with your new ´hobby... Regards, Hannele

Learn to play 5-row accordeon

It is easy to play accordeon. First learn the right hand and left hand accompainment you can learn later. Accordeon has five rows keys, but on each row of five ascending notes the two last ones are the same as the two first ones of the next row. So it is enough to learn to play the three middle rows and then the two edge rows are only for making easier the choise of keys when playing. Keys are with the samehalf step difference in between as in piano but here blacks and whites are equally on the row, with no difference in shape or place. When you have risen the first three, just move your hand to the next row to rise the next three, easy!From the colours of the keys you can by comparing with piano find the middle-C, and the other keys from comparing to that, they are in the same order as in piano and you can regognize them visually. Then just go on and olay.  Please try! Only via trying you cans ucceed...

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thursday 11.2.2016
I do not know if this is misunderstanding or what or a slip of memory, but when I sent these advices I have made in Finnish to a Swedish speaking older woman who maybe had not played anything before, she in a few days - or in two weeks? - learned on her own to play cahrmingly just about anything, I was told, so that one could not believe that she hadn't had that skill before. If I understood right, she had tld she had recorded too, and maybe that she had been in the radio, but it can beso if she learned well since that would have been a good model for others. But it can be a misunderstanding too.
I had maybe said that one learns well as old too, if one uses one'sexperience of life and is not so formal in how obne studies. For younger ones the advice would be that if one follows one's oiwn insight about music and about the musical sides of life, ad does not play mechanically but more like according to feelings.
But I thought that advice from the point of view of teaching. There is that instead of stubling to note reading skills, one would conceive heights of notes roughly and have some kind of idea of lenghts but in fact one would play according to what sounds music like and search fpr what one oneself longs for from music, what cahrm, longing, impressive, feelings and atmospheres, even beauty, the music of sensations and of the senses. So there would not be notes as a form between oneself and muscíc, but instead notes roughly read and music heard freely with the heart, followed one's own wishes in picking the songs and in ways of playing."