Learn to Play

The following links are to various blog posts

Preliminaries:

• Determine the key of your instrument
• How to hold a concertina
• Button layout for C Concertina
• The air valve and other switches
• Concertina musical notation
• Concertina finger notation
• Primer on how to read music

Scales:

• Complete Chromatic scale of all buttons
• Complete list of all Right hand and Left hand scales
• The Natural Scale (no sharps or flats - all "white keys" on the piano).

Chords:

• Left Hand Commonly Used Chords (from the CACC, with corrections)

The Key of G:

• Beginning Exercises in G for Right Hand
• Beginning Etude Exercises in G for Right Hand
• "76 Easy Songs" in G for the Right Hand
• Chords of G (all modes) for the Left Hand
• Beginning Exercises in G for the Left Hand
• Left Hand music for the "76 Easy Songs"
• "76 Easy Songs" - both hands
• "27 Melodies" in G Major for Right Hand (extracted from the CACC sheet music collection)
• "27 Melodies" in G Major for Right Hand with harmony
• Left hand music for the "27 Melodies"
• "27 Melodies" both hands

The Key of A:

The Key of D: