Re music lessons - I´ve always wanted to play keyboard, but formal lessons were so slow, and I just lost interest. In today´s on-line world, there are loads of ¨teach yourself¨ lessons out there which just use set chord progressions in the left hand, and ¨top line¨ simple melody-lines for the right. With a digital key-board, these can be learned and played, along with the built-in rhythms to quickly gain enough skill in playing acceptable music. I used to play squeeze-box for a morris side, and learning is definitely quicker when playing along with other musicians, so if you can team up with someone else it will make learning easier and avoid the plague of boredom with your own lack of skill! It took me five years of practise on the ´box to be able to play solo in public, so patience is essential, as is playing something, even for only five minutes, every day.
