It’s fine for instruments with a linear key organisation and a single way of playing each note, but I think it’s just confusing for a beginner. I think learning which key produces which note from the outset has got to be the path to madness. It makes picking up new tunes much faster than learning by ear. Meowguy - I actually wrote myself a computer program to produce keyboard tablature from ABC files. This may not be an efficient way to learn your first few tunes, but if you want to understand your instrument, you’ll need to master those things eventually anyway. Once you know your way around the buttons and the bellows, when you hear a tune or see standard music notation (assuming you read it already), you’ll have some idea of where the notes are going to fall under your fingers and which way to move the bellows. Find other common intervals in the keys of D and G (thirds, fourths, fifths and sixths) and practice playing them (but most importantly get used to how they sound). Find out where the octaves are (when pushing, two buttons on the same row with two buttons in between make an octave, when pulling you’ll need three buttons in between).
Learn to play scales in D Major (try starting it on E, A and B instead of D to get used to the sound of the other modes) and G Major (try starting it on A, D and E instead of G). If you want to learn the instrument, I’d say you have to learn which button and which bellows direction makes which note. Seems to me that notations like meowguy described would be good for teaching a tune to someone who wants to learn a tune without learning the instrument.
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