Without a good harmonist on the village for another half a century ago, no festive event was: Weddings, names, christening, New Year holidays, "Maslenitsa" and other big and small celebrations. In some places, there lives a tradition to call the harmonist to a significant holiday for the family. Different motifs on the accordion - songs, dance melodies, dance - are transmitted mainly by the "rumor" from generation to generation, from experienced craftsmen to a newly well-known musician. However, this folk musical instrument can be learned on themselves and independently - without a self-taught mentor or educated teacher.
How to keep harmony?
Of course, learning the game on any musical instrument begins with the rules of landing with him, its retention, arrangement of hands and fingers. From this and start learning to play on the harmonica.
Mostly harmonic - the tool is quite compact, its weight is small, so it is convenient to play it both in a sitting position and standing.
Further, the article discusses learning issues on a regular accordion having two keyboards:
- right - melodic, intended for the fingers of the right hand;
- Left - bass, on which the fingers of the left hand play.
The varieties of this tool are not reading: In some places they play on large tools, which in the left keyboard three rows of buttons, in others - on small, single-row, in the third, prefer to have a two-row harmonic. In addition, among the same single-row or two-row, there are many differences. Some models have no button on the left or right keyboard, but the keys. And everyone will have their own features in landing and arrangement of hands and in the game technique.
Therefore, we will learn to play on the most popular, probably, of all the tool models - "Double row." It has in the right keyboard 25 buttons located in 2 rows, and in the left - three rows with the same number of buttons.
Modern harmonic windows have two shoe belts attached to the tool from the right keyboard, and one end belt for fixing the left hand from the side of the bass buttons.
Shoulder straps are put on anyway, that is, it does not matter, sitting or worth the harmonist.
Belts You need to adjust in your figure: the tool must be comfortably located on the chest. Its lower part with a sitting position of the musician relies on the thigh right leg with the right side of the body, and the inner part is touched by its riding. It is convenient to accommodate on a stool or a rigid chair, but not very deeply - closer to the edge. On the left side of the harmonist there should be free space - there it will stretch the fur when playing. It is necessary to sit directly (neither slouching nor lean forward). To lean back, for example, the back of the chair is also not recommended. The left hand is done in the end belt, which must hold it tightly, but do not limit any of its move up, downward, forward (in the depth of the keyboard) and back.
In the right hand, mostly pay attention to the placement of thumb. It may have several provisions, which depends on what function the musician is placed on it.
- The thumb is not involved in the keyboard game, and serves only for additional fixation of the musical instrument and compensate for the efforts of playing fingers. In this case, it is from the opposite side of the griff.
- It does not play, but does not support the tool, but only slightly discharges the voltage of other fingers and serves, rather, as a support and guide for the brush and the forearm of the right hand. At the same time, he is on the edge of the griff, touching his second phalange and gliding along his fingers. Fingers in this case are collected together.
- The thumb participates in the game, like everyone else. Such a solution increases the technical capabilities of harmony.
It should be noted that some models "Double-rigging" have not three in bass, but two rows of buttons. However, this circumstance should not confuse the real harmonist: it will always find the necessary bass or chord.
Mechanical
Sounds on the harmonica are obtained by pressing the buttons and the simultaneous movement of fur. If the buttons do not press, then the fur will not work out or move, so how to enter or exit the air nowhere. Buttons are a kind of air valves that, when you click on them, open the sound holes, and when they are released - close them.
And vice versa, if the fur is still, then there is no point in the tool buttons - no air flow, sound tongues remain "deaf".
It is important to learn how to push and shift the fur of harmony in such a way that there is always a stock in one direction or another.
The movement of the fur manages the left hand of the musician, since the right side of the tool remains fixed.
Long notes need to try to reproduce continuously - when moving fur into some one side (any). And also need to understand which sound changes occur with certain mechanics of fur. We list the main, which is useful to learn beginners:
- With slow furs, the sound is quieter;
- With an increase in the speed of movement, the sound is enhanced;
- Especially loud sound occurs with a sharp movement of fur;
- Uniformly and smoothly accelerating or slowing the movement of the fur, you can get not only sounds with changing dynamics, but also with various timbres.
With experience, of course, the ability to correctly calculate the duration of notes and phrases correctly, to change the direction of the furs in a timely manner, so as not to interrupt the sounds before time, competently control the dynamics and the timbre of the musical instrument.
How to choose a training course?
On the harmonica, you can learn to play almost at any conscious age. Children can begin to comprehend the aza art of the game from preschool age. True, and tools, they need to choose the appropriate, possibly the incomplete model of the two-row harmony of the "Seagulls" type. But they need a mentor from among the amateur musicians or the educated teacher of the game on the harmonica. Musicians who teach bayan or accordion, familiar with the basics of the game for harmony, are suitable. With these experts, almost any musical school in our country, as well as houses of children's creativity and leisure centers.
For adults, newbies have several ways to educate harmony.
- You can adopt the technique of the game, as often they say, "from the hands", and anything about what a note literacy in most cases does not matter. Such studies are possible with a living nearby person or a relative who can play on this tool and agreed to help with practitioners of the game. But there is one nuance here: if novice learning does not have a musical hearing and talent, but only a desire, then it will become a potential "teacher" from the first time. The lessons are unlikely to continue, as the option of transferring the skills of "from hand to hand" is successful only where there are the same concepts in people relative to the same thing. And in the music of this equal "concept" is just a good musical rumor.
- Contact professional teachers, as in the case of very young fans of harmonica. Professionals Lack of hearing do not consider criteria for refusing to occupy with those who want, as they understand that the musical hearing is actually available in all people, but he has a good or even unique (absolute) from nature, and others need to work with him to develop
- Learning at home without assistance or with the help of media (Internet, video tutorials, online courses). Adults can well master the harmonica independently, studying lessons from scratch on tutorials, schools, as well as browsing the lessons and playing musicians in videos. The virtuoso game is likely to become a unattainable dream for them, but they will be able to get pleasure and please with their game of relatives and close familiar, if they are perfected and attentive. Smoke old and modern melodies learn how to play correctly quite quickly with a great desire.
It is correct to learn to play notes, but for this you need to master the musical letter, for some reason it is unreasonable for many newcomers "stumbling block".
There are self-tutorials in which training is not made on notes, but by numbers. Each button both in the right and left keyboard is endowed with its "personal" digit (1, 2, 3, and so on), and the study manual provides the order of pressing the keyboard when performing a particular exercise, melodies or songs.
Here are two examples of a digital method, which is taken from the pages of different tutorials on the game on the "Chrome":
In the example of the song "Old Clain" used a combined method for recording the accordion party - and a musical, and digital.
What a course of study will be a newcomer, he will decide.
Technique game
The program of classes on the technique of Garmoshka at home should adhere to a certain plan, the purpose of which is the continuous development of the novice harmonist. The following scheme of classes is recommended.Studying exercises on the right keyboard
You need to learn how to move correctly on the buttons with the fingers of the right hand, while pressing the buttons is performed to the end of the fingertips with the soft movements. Do not knock on them, since the sound from the energy of the button does not become brighter and louder. Only the movement of the fur affects the sound of sound.
The number of playing fingers is a minimum of four (if possible, it is better to use all 5 fingers).
It should be started with the study of gamma to major - first in one octave, and then use all three.
When performing exercises, it is necessary to constantly monitor:
- landing and position of both body and tools;
- elbow right hand should not be pressed to the body of the musician;
- Fingers do not bend in the joints, but have a semi-covered position;
- You can not raise your fingers over the keyboard too high;
- Foot feet with the whole area are based on the floor, and stand apart at each other at the distance of the shoulders width.
All your exercises must be accompanied by a suitable scope: if the song in the waltzium clock size is 3/4, then you need to consider "once-two-three" for each fourth share, in the amount of 4/4 the score is underway to four.
Left hand
At first, the left hand is mastered only in operations with the control of fur, and it is still playing that only the fingers of the right hand. The left wrist is located under a short strap, the thumb and palm are based in the rib area between the right-handed tool cover and the bass keyboard.
After successfully exploring the right keyboard, you can start learning the keyboard and exercises on the bass side of the accordion.
As for the fingers, four fingers participate in the game.
It will be a serious mistake to play three or two fingers of the left hand: the sound of the bass can be played and not very clean, and possibly with desection due to restrictions in possible means of sound recovery.
Everything else is similar to the rules of the fingertips of the right hand on the buttons.
Playing two hands
By completing the exercises recommended in the textbook for the development of the fingers of the left hand, the hands should be combined into a single ensemble, having understood, for example, a simple motive of the self-tutorial, in which melodic and accompanying votes are present. Here is an example of a small composition for beginners:
Useful advice
When learning, you need to follow the following advice from experienced harmonists:
- Music should be engaged in a good mood;
- You should try not to miss daily lessons: let it be only 15 minutes, but - every day;
- without spending the previous exercise on "five", you should not start following;
- Each practical exercise or song needs to be learned by heart, as well as play the "blind" way (without looking at the keyboard);
- It is useful to play with the audience - you need to be able to not pay attention to the audience, delving with the game only to music.
Harmonic - an amazing musical instrument possessing great opportunities and strong sound. And although it is not as popular as, for example, the guitar, but her sound always worries the hearts of the listeners.