I have been busy learning my new button accordion. Not being able to read music hasn't helped. It means I have to have the melody in my head before I try to play it on the instrument. Then, as I find the right notes, I write them down as numbers. Number "1" is the first button from the top, number "2" the second button from the top, and so on. As a button accordion has two notes on every button, one on PULLING the bellows, the other on PUSHING, I am using regular numbers to indicate PUSH, and bold numbers to indicate PULL.
Here's "Advance Australia Fair":
5 6 5 4 5 6 6 6
7 7 6 6 6 7
5 6 5 4 3 5 5 5
7 7 6 6 5 5
5 5 6 6 5 5 4 4
5 5 6 8 7 7
5 5 6 6 5 5 6 6
7 7 6 7 6 6
7 8 7 7 6 6 5 5
6 7 6 7 6 6
I still have a big problem playing the chords with my left hand as I need to move the fingers on my left hand independently of what the fingers on my right hand are doing and somehow both hands always insist on doing everything in unison. Having a split personality would probably help! (but I'm in two minds about it)
