THE BEST WAY TO PRACTISE PIANO SCALES [5 Key Points]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- A Piano lesson on the best way to practise Piano scales. Scale practise shouldn't be avoided, and they're incredibly useful for many reasons, although they can seem like a chore to play. How to practise piano scales? Using these 5 key points should hopefully help you think of your scales in different ways, using them as opportunities to practise other musical aspects. Becoming more creative with piano scale practise is the key to obtaining them to muscle memory, helping you in more ways than you realise!
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0:00 Introduction
0:56 Keep raised wrists - Don't sit too low or close - Play on your tips (short nails!)
1:22 Play with an even pulse - Keep both hands in sync - Stick to the correct finger pattern - Move your fingers individually for lightness
2:55 Hands separately - Similar motion hands together - Contrary motion hands together - Changing direction
4:32 "Hump-ty Dump-ty" (swing)
5:06 Experiment with accents Try emphasising every 4 notes, or 5 notes for example.
5:55 Legato play smoothly and connected
6:05 Staccato play short and disjointed
6:23 Slurred Couplets joining 2 notes together at a time
6:54 Opposite Articulation play legato in one hand and staccato in the other
7:17 Utilise a Metronome! to encourage even pulse, playing 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes and 1/16 notes
8:38 Pair up your scales! Major Relative Minor or/and Major Parallel Minor
10:12 Try playing scales in Chromatic order, rather through the Circle of 5ths
12:45 Aim for 3 key signatures per *practise session
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The contrary motion and the changing direction 🤯 Legato and staccato as well 🤯
as one who has done what you say, muscle memory is a real thing for sure. it is real believe. you are so right there pretty lady. sometimes my hands seem to have minds of their own and just go where they want. it is a super feeling and I'm still not all that yet, but that is a marvelous marvelous feeling and you just can't believe what you just did. in fact, I had the same thing happen with my feet, ha ha, I just was in the woods and started doing a jig or something and my feet started doing things I did not know they could do and for the life of me could never repeat it. if only it was on tape. cool talk. your beautiful. carry on.
i have not even begun this video, but I feel your energy. my father had a friend, who, all he played was hanon scales and my father said it sounded just beautiful.
I am halfway through your course! Very good teacher and well detailed/explained 🙂
I like the Hump-ty Dump-ty (rhythm) 🎶😌
Thank god for your channel (and other great piano teachers on yt).. the teacher I have irl explains so bad it makes me feel that I'm too dumb to learn piano I even stopped practicing for a few weeks now because of him..but I'm trying to get back to it
Wonderful tips!! Thank you from Brazil!
Pleased you found it helpful!
Wow, This was an EXCELLENT LESSON - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!🙏🙏🙏. I am convinced. Looking forward to taking your course some day✅. Greetings from sunny Southern California🥰🥰🥰
Perfect timing. I was just about to practise some scales which i do at the beginning of every piano practise. Thanks for the ideas and inspiration!
Great tips for making scales a bit more interesting, thanks!
Thank you so much. I needed some inspiration!
Thank you
Loved the vedio will practice
Thanks!
C'est vraiment de belle proposition et de beaux exercices, merci.
thx a lot. I needed it
Great!
hi! i love your tutorials and was wondering if you could do any of conan grays new songs off of super ache?
Hey, thank you so much! I was wondering if you could teach us how to play "Joji - Glimpse of Us" on piano too, ofc if you would like it. Thanks!
Merci for this. I'm changing bank accounts but as soon as it's settled I'll be supporting your channel since it's one of THE most practical sites for so many things for Noobies like moi.
And I will have a video up next month to help do exercises and self-treatments for piano injuries and how to prevent them.
Stay tuned.
Yes she does a great job! Do you have a similar channel?@ Lawrence
@@PianoSpiceRackwithJim Not yet, I'm waiting for my daughter to edit the video which has already been filmed. She's on vacation, so it'll be in August. I have me low back exercises if you're on twitter. They take 30 seconds a day.
Stay tuned.
I learnt piano from a young age them stopped at 18. Recently picked it back up and no one ever explained to me before what scales are for and different ways to practice them or the theory behind them. This is really helpful and interesting. Thank you.
Glad you found it helpful!🎹
Thanks for the PDF scale sheet ❤❤❤
You're welcome 😊
A small gesture for your effort that you must put into your tutorials
Thank you
Thank you!
hi, could you please do a video tutorial for lights are on? thx
Thank you so much for all your videos! Could you please do a tutorial for Post Party Trauma by McKenna Grace 💕
I love the videos on how to practice the piano! If you have time, can you do rocket man by elton john? Thanks!
Hello :)
I wanted to ask if you could upload the "and we walk after" tutorial for the twilight piano session, please?
I haven't found any tutorial :(
I hope you can read this comment.
thanks and greetings 😊💗
As a beginner in music theory (been playing for 20+ years), I hit the wall with memorization of the scales. I was too focused on the note names, and going thru the Circle of 5ths and trying to remember the sharp note names. I've been searching around the web for help and tips, and this video showed up.
With this video I learned that pairing up the Major and the relative minor is a good idea, in addition to only focus on 3 scales at each practice session. These two tips in addition to have the correct fingering on each scale printed out and in front of me, opened my eyes. Have only done two days but I feel the muscle memory is already helping a lot. Thanks!
I’m so pleased! 🤗🎹
I just watched ur video on how to play driver’s license yesterday, and i already know it pretty well, u are a great teacher and I would absolutely love if u could do the song Oblivion by Halfy and Winks. It is such a beautiful song and without a doubt I know u can easily teach me and others that song
Please do a turorial on „Until I Found You“ (Piano Version) by Stephen Sanchez❤
Hi!
Can you please do War of Hearts (Acoustic version) by Ruelle
Would reaallllly appreciate it, as i can't find the exact chords anywhere. Love your work.
Thank you for existing!
I’m interested in researching war of hearts. Yes I don’t know work as well
Please teach us to play the 23rd psalm song by the ray conniff singers. Thank you
Thank you, some great ways to add some variation into the mix!
Please could you make a tutorial for another of Olivia Rodrigo’s unreleased songs, “the exception”? Thanks :)
Love the tutorials please make a tutorial on glimpse of us by Joji love this song, thanks so much
Changing of key signature will change the whole map of scales. Can all scales be locked in one mode such as C scale?
your channel is all i needed as a beginner and more!
hey, i don't know if you take requests but could you do a tutorial on Miss You Love by Silverchair?
it's a song i've wanted to learn about the second i first heared it!
thanks for the awesome videos, keep up the great work :)
Can you please do a video on how to play glimpse of us by joji🙏🏻
Hi! Could you do a tutorial for Bink no Sake of One Piece, its great but I cant find any good tutorial and yours are the best
Hello! could you make a piano tutorial on hollywood's bleeding by post malone Thank you!
The third time I've watched this lesson. I'm still working on my scales to really know them, and after four months I've done Major and minor scales. In my mind, I think of a relative minor as if it is the Major. I've only dabbled in melodic and harmonic minors, maybe I'm not ready since I don't really know my minors as I should. Do you picture the minor scale and then flatten it in your mind? Or do you follow the tone-semi tone (whole-half for us Yanks) to play them?
Can u do doing scales in octaves
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Excellent lessons thanks a lot
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Hey can you please make a tutorial of in the stars by benson boone
Heyyy. Could you please make a video on how to play “glimpse of uns” by joji? It’s such a beautiful song and it would be really cool.
Hey Francesca could you please make tutorial on stitches by Shawn Mendes mtv unplugged version
Can you do monsoon by hippo campus please
CAN YOU TEACH US HOW TO PLAY “GLIMPSE OF US”. PLEASEEE
What is the rationale behind using the 3-finger-4finger alternating technique instead of just using either 3 or 4 fingers along the scale octaves ?
Because of the position/pattern of the black keys.
Can do you a tutorial of Girl crush by little big town please
I like your videos. Clear and concise. I haven't checked your other 'scales' videos, but I notice here that you are playing the natural minor scales. When I first learned scales, I was only taught harmonic minors (the Michael Aaron books my teacher used as his basis for teaching only had harmonic minor scales for practice because they were, as it said, 'the most commonly used'). Because of this, I didn't even realise until much later that there were natural and melodic minor scales as well! Anyway... for scale practice, I've only ever used the harmonic form. Would you recommend practicing minor scales in all of the forms? The fingers used won't change, just the notes played, so I doubt it'll be too difficult to transition between the three. (I notice that some people play the melodic minor going up the keyboard and switch to the natural minor coming down). Maybe I should scoot over to check your other scales vids!
I was playing a mix of natural, harmonic and melodic here. I recommend focusing on the natural and harmonic minors. The melodic minor is different ascending and different descending, so the people you’ve watched are correct.
@@BitesizePiano I got up to Grade 3 many years ago, then gave up when I became a student and could no longer afford lessons. I've been self-taught since, but have had many years when I've not played at all. I've no real natural aptitude for music and have to work really hard at it. Being self-taught, I learned a lot of pieces 'by rote' - bar by bar, until they were memorised - without ingesting any of the theory behind what I was learning. As a consequence, if I'm playing a piece from memory and go wrong (frequently!), then I have no way of getting back into the piece and have to give up. I recently returned to the piano with renewed enthusiasm, and have started to learn more of the theory. My playing has certainly improved. I'm currently working on Clair de Lune, and have just about perfected it up to the point where the left hand arpeggios begin. I'm also starting to learn Chopin's Polonaise in A Major (my favourite) and am finding that the theoretical knowledge I've acquired through videos like yours is making it far easier. My technique has improved, too. Having started over 40 years ago, you'd think I would be a virtuoso player now. Not so. But I spent too many years as a self-learner, and not learning very well! Your videos are invaluable in helping me to progress now. Thank you.
Hi Francesca. I have a quick question for you over something that's puzzled me re: major scales. When I learned the major scales, I learned them as C (no sharps or flats), then G, D, A, E and B with sharps... and F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db and Gb with flats. I also learned that F# and Gb were the same, but Gb was generally how the key was referred to. I learned this from the Michael Aaron books, and from a Circle of 5ths diagram my teacher at the time gave me. I now see, though, that Db is often referred to as C#, and B referred to as Cb. Some charts even have both F# and Gb as separate scales. I can't see any obvious reason for this, but maybe I'm missing something! I wondered if you could explain it, please. The only major scales I've ever practiced are the 12 I first mentioned above, along with their 12 relative minors (now expanded to include natural and melodic forms!)
I'd say Gb and F# major are used just as much as each other. They both have 6 sharps/flats, so I don't agree with the books you have read! C# major is NEVER used and is instead Db major, also Cb major is NEVER used and instead B major, as they key signatures are simpler. I don't teach my students scales based on the circle of 5ths, because then they get too used to sharps first. I alternate between one sharp then one flat, 2 sharps then 2 flats etc.
I'm making a free scales course very very soon, and all will be covered there!
@@BitesizePiano Thanks. I just thought it was odd that some piano scales charts referred to C# and Db, and to Cb. I'd always thought of them as Db and B. The ones I have refer to the 12 scales I've mentioned above - with Gb only. Other videos I've seen show 'The 12 Major and 12 Minor Scales', and have Gb and F# as the same - which they obviously are, note-wise. The difference, I assume, would be on the chord progressions being used. But they would still be the the same chords, surely, wouldn't they? Just with different names (either # or b)? I understand what you mean about the Circle of 5ths, as the tendency is always to follow it clockwise. I, too, learned alternate sharp and flat keys. For practice now, as a 'returner-learner', I'm tending to focus on the more difficult keys, with asymmetrical fingering when playing in contrary directions. It's definitely improved my accuracy! I was going to produce my own small vid for absolute beginners, showing an easy way to work out all of the keys/scales, major and minor, simply by sitting at the keyboard and focusing on counts and patterns. It's quite simple, as you know. I've always found it much easier to learn these things by seeing and doing rather than by looking at the theory written down. I used to find the circle of 5ths confusing, to be honest, but could now draw my own from scratch by following my own simple counts on the keyboard. I really like your videos. They're some of the best and easiest to follow. A few other tutors I tried either seemed to assume a fair degree of theoretical knowledge, didn't explain the concepts clearly, or were far too long. Bitesize is good for someone like me with ADHD. Thanks again. 🙂
Scales scales scales I don't like scales but scales like me and I can't avoid it 🤭
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I heard a quote sometime ago that scales are the fabric of your Sound :-) or a toolbox for us pianists
Do some songs by AJR! I prefer The Good Part, Bang!, or World's Smallest Violin. All good songs.
Please help what are the fingerings? It seems like 123,tuck, 1234 right hand left?❤
Here’s my free scales course th-cam.com/play/PLJOfTzSYW-9oTpYqDNEEKqIPutaanRvFY.html&si=aQ9lrqkqZFF98Mpi
romance de l'amour piano tutorial plssssss
Please do conversation in the dark by john legend
Looking good UK girl
Can you tell me some paino tips
That’s quite vague! I have many videos about piano tips on different topics on my channel, have a browse through my content 🎹
hi!! is there any chance you could do a tutorial on “getting older” by billie eilish? x
Billie Eilish? Wouldn't that just be one note?
Can you please to Joji glimpse of us?
Please, Sleeping at last (500 miles )
can you please do a tutorial for Everybody dies by billie eilish ?
I have a song request please please please do "don't you worry child" PLEASE
You look good
Thanks!
Hello mam I'm a blind person can you please teach me how to play piano please mam
I think you fingering was wrong in the LH - B flat major.: 321-4321
Not 321-3214
Just a thought
It’s not wrong, just alternative 👍🏻
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Scales scales the musical fruit…the more you eat, the more you toot. 🎉Wait, actually that’s “beans” 🫘 nvm