There's an easy way to memorize major scales on piano - How to find them quickly in All 12 keys
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- Here's an easy way to memorize major scales, perfect for beginners. The pattern or formula to create one from any note is WWHWWWH but in the video I have an upgrade to help you quickly see 7 notes as 2 blocks. When you know how to find and how to memorize major scales piano playing gets a lot easier and clearer.
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Here's all the modes: (block sizes in half steps, shaped like in this video- spaced apart 1 half step each)
Major: 3 4
Dorian: 2 4 1
Phrygian: 1 4 2
Lydian: 4 3
Mixolydian: 3 3 1
Minor: 2 3 2
Locrian: 1 3 3
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50 years ago I took my final (very early childhood) piano lesson.
43 years ago, I started to learn and practice many-many-many scales on my flute.
I “get” that the piano helped me learn the flute. (Sort of.) (I was young.)
38 years ago, I put down my well-played C Flute and I haven’t played another instrument since.
Today, at 54, I watched this video not knowing anything about you. In this short video, you taught me how those “long-lost” elementary school black and white piano keys directly translate into the endless scales of my youth.
Back then, I blew notes into the ether on my flute without true understanding because I had a “good ear”. No one taught me theory.
Now, thanks to you, seeing the visual, chunky images of those thousands of scales I played on my flute brings music back to my life full circle in a new way.
I feel so much smarter and connected to my music now.
The next half of my life thanks you, @PianoFromScratch! 🎼🎹🌬🎶🎵Choosing which instrument to play next is a wonderful dilemma!!
Cheers!
Hi, I just saw that you had sent a generous tip through, thanks for that, it’s very much appreciated!
I hope the channel continues to help you along your way, there’s a fair amount of stuff about how music works and how to apply that to finding and recognising things on the piano. It’s all a foreign language to start with but gradually it all gets more and more familiar and helps you learn.
Good luck!!
@@PianoFromScratch - [ You’re welcome for the tip!! I appreciate your teaching style. I’ll stick around, indeed. ] After I listened to your video, I downloaded an audiobook about music theory and listened while gardening yesterday. Let’s just say that I’m sure my neighbors heard my LOUD laughter at all the numerous “AH HA!” moments I was having. Before this weekend, I never learned the “math” behind the mysterious and beautiful sounds emanating from my flute and the jargon that would have explained it all. (Reminds me of studying grammar at the college level-the first time I learned of the structure and logic behind words, sentences, and self-expression with words.) It’s such an unexpected treat to listen to and play music with new understanding. Wow.
I recently picked up a music theory book and was just practicing my WWHWWWH and trying to figure out my scales. This video is a gem. It's unbelievable how a few minutes of its implementation makes a difference.
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Glad it helped, yea it’s really important to always think of chunks and groups of notes. There’s plenty more things like that on the channel 🙂
@@PianoFromScratch thank you and I'll definitely see what else you have in store and make sure to leave a comment 👍🏾
I'm no longer a beginner, but your way of looking at things is still so refreshing and, yes, helpful. I wish I'd had a teacher like you when I was a kid.
Wow... this is a brilliant method (especially finding the two whole keys together). I gotta have to try it out once I get the piano!
Thanks for this! I’m a self-taught classical pianist, that’s never learned their scales. I learn pieces without sheet music (I know sounds like a disaster..) through a program called Smart Classical Piano. It’s extremely effective actually and Igor (the teacher) teaches down to every detail of the score. But, now as I play through the pieces, I feel this will help strengthen a lot of them/ help me understand what I’m playing. Thanks again man!!
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Genius. I have been studying music most of my life and have always struggled. I started with piano when I was about 8. I have autism/CPTSD and this just makes so much sense to me. I tried it and I can suddenly find all the scales. For some reason I am looking at them in a different way and it has just clicked. I was sure there was an easier way to do this and finally someone speaking my language. There is just less things to remember which is 1000% more efficient. I can finally put all that knowledge to some kind of use. and finally start being able to properly paly after nearly 50 odd years of being stuck and afraid. Brilliant Sir absolutely game changing for me!!!!! Love your work!!!
Great video, as always
Extremely helpful! Quick and easy. Many thanks!
Glad it helped!
wow! the idea of visualising a block makes learning scales so much easy. Thanks
Very well made tutorial, greatly explained as well. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I just started learning piano yesterday, and I watched some of your videos and you mentioned scales, so I decided to check this one out too. Expecting to never be able to remember even one scale. But here I am, thanks to your tips, I can work out all the major scales by just looking at the piano and it BLEW MY MIND. Thank you.
C major is easy.
So is A minor.
All the others are a bit more complicated.
Brilliant and practical method! Thank you mate, subscribed.
Thanks for the sub! I hope you find more helpful stuff on here
I’m starting to seriously try and learn piano so I can use a keyboard effectively, and this helped me so much!! I’m not a complete beginner to music, I took guitar lessons for a while and did 5 years of saxophone, but I was not expecting to learn scales like this intuitively. You made that happen! Great video
Glad I could help!
wow.....this is a much different method from other videos I have seen on Major scales and the most EASIEST ONE.....keep up the good work bro....!
Love this method of thinking in terms of chunks and groups of notes. First time seeing any instructor teaching this method. Thank you so much!!!! 🙏
I have been wrestling with scales for so long but this video has solved my problem! Thanks for posting!!
Great lesson! 😊
Cheers mate. I’ve been struggling with finding the major scales and this video finally helped me understand how to find them. 👍
This is game changing for me. I Downloaded the suggested material. Thank you
I'm loving your videos, found your stuff on reddit and I'm so glad. You seem really authentic and to the point and (as someone who suffers from musical earworms) I find that I learn these ways the best in so many ways from creative expression to keeping things fresh and always changing! Thanks!!
I'm pleased you're finding some use from the channel!
Just awesome, haven't thought of looking at this in that way, thanks, subbed!
This is wild! Was looking for memorizing the chords in a major/minor scale but this will definitely be useful when memorizing single note scales. Very well explained, thanks for this!
Youre the best this technique was so simple and now I can find any major chord 3 year later still great technique
This is eye opening, I knew there must have been a trick to it instead of carefully counting each step every time! I am gonna give your minor scale video a watch now :)
Thank you for this lesson! It really opened up a whole new world of chunking keys.
really nice videos for starting, very practical and easy to understand and repeat! keep it up!
Great system. Looking forward to trying the minor scales version.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge in such easy to understand way! just watched few of your videos and every one of them was awesome! Thank you!
Just what I was looking for! Very helpful, thank you!
bro. you just gave me the breakthrough ive been looking for
Thank you very much. beginner here enjoying the journey. x
This is GREAT!!! Of all the videos and resources I’ve looked at, this was by far the best at efficiently and clearly explaining the WHY of learning scales on an extremely practical level as well as the tips on how to block them out and find them on the keyboard. BRILLIANT! I teach beginner piano and have always known scales are important, but have struggled for years to come up with a satisfactory argument for it when students ask me why they need to learn them. I think I’m just going to send them (or their parents) all this video and tell them, “Here, this guys says it better than anyone I’ve heard so far!” Well done, and I look forward to checking out more of the resources you mention as well as your content.
Merci again. Your channel has really helped me progress in my almost three weeks of playing.
Probably one of my favorite videos of yours. Amazingly helpful.
Now THAT is a serious improvement compared to all the videos and tutorials on how to get these scales in your fingers. Best idea so far and it works brilliantly, I have practiced this now for a while going through all major scales, amazing results. Thanks for this!
Very Helpful shortcut 👍🏽
Thank you for blessing us all with your easy to understand video content!
I just purchased 5 or 6 of the scales and chords pdfs, but while browsing and adding products, I noticed that there was no shopping cart or link at the top to click and get back to the checkout process if I was somewhere else on the site. The only way was to add another product to the basket in order to get back into the shopping cart checkout mode. Just thought I'd let you know!
This is amazing. 2 days and I've learned all 12 major and 12 minor chords, then the building blocks of a scale, along with degrees the scale. I've learned more in that time than the over 20 years on guitar.
Brilliant. This should have been taught when I went to school. 👏🏾🙏🏾🔥🎹
Thank you so much, this was very helpful!😊
Wow this was really helpful, Thank you
Awesome perspective. I'm going to try this.
Dude. Thank you!!!! As a guitar and bass player who is used to thinking in block shapes like this, this is a goddamn epiphany for me. 🙏
Thank you! Nice job!!
Thanks this is very very helpful! A brilliant hack!
I get it! Love it! Great job! Makes things so much easier.
You are amazing.. for 2 years now I'm trying to learn music theories and always found it very complicated for me .. your way of explaining it is very simple and creative, where I could understand and memorize easily .. thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for sharing this information. I will add this to my practice. The scales seem really hard to me and what I hear is that there are easy methods to learn them. I use that Alfred book all the time. It is straightforward and easy to find chords and key signatures with.
And for sure to learn the scales with. With time and keeping at it, they are becoming easier as are using chords instead of adapted scores of sheet music.
This is awesome. I find you so easy to listen to. I took lessons as a child, here in the stares while we would learn somewhat complicated classical pieces we or I was never taught scales. Even as an adult learner I began asking as I saw what a disadvantage it is not learning them, particularly if one wanted to play modern music in a freer style. Thank you.
This is so simple but so fecking handy. I feel like I just learned all of the scales at once. Youre my first ever Patreon subscribtion!
Hey thanks for signing up and glad this video helped!
This is very good and helpful.
Tips like this are great!
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oh my.. For two years after started to self-learning keyboard, I have been saying 'whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half' in my head every time finding the scales. thank you so much!
What a great video to break things up easily
This is truly amazing, thank you for this tip, the step by step wwhwwwh was really getting me! The patterns are much smoother
Eye opener! thnx! makes my world a bit easier
Glad it was helpful!
So helpful and a really smart way to quickly grasp scales. I really appreciate your teaching approach- thank you!
OMG i just learned these. And not only how to build them, but how to see them. I watched your clip in the bathtub. One day later, took the sheet and read it (i highly recommend his sheets!). Then i stood in front of the keyboard and i did not need more that 5 seconds to correctly place my fingers over all of them. Now i "only" have to practice them hihi. You sir, are a wizzard. It "clicks" all around, thank you so much for your effort!
Block technique is awesome!
Yea it's really helpful to picture groups of notes in general, not just with scales
super helpful. you basically break them up according to the fingering when you switch back from your last finger to your thumb or vice versa.
Excellent way to figure out every major scale!
I certainly find it useful. It’s very good practice to be able to recognise shapes on the keyboard. Thanks for watching
5 years of lessons, and I've never heard this. SUPER HELPFUL 👍
I am new to this channel and I feel I am learning and thinking more clearly listening to this great teacher. Thank you for this.
Very helpful. I took piano lessons as a kid and now i am taking up voice so need scale refresher and dang this is so much easier than how i was taught as a kid.
This video is super helpful 👊
Really great Method. This was the stuff that i hoped to find!
Great to hear!
@@PianoFromScratch i don't even know, why the whole WWHWWWH way always confused me more than it helped. Your way was like a switch in my head and it feels like i've learned all major scales at once. I do now practice them by playing all around the circle of fifths.
I would love to see a video with sort of a blueprint on how to go from the beginning of piano playing to free improvisation. There is just too much information on the internet, that it gets really confusing, really quickly.
I've started piano, when the whole corona thing began. I've learned a couple of sheet music songs to get started but i wish to learn improvisation. First i've learned the Eb scale with some fitting chord progressions. Then i switched to the s blues scale and a boogie woogie rhythm. Subsequently i switched to learning all major chords and their inversions and now i've stumbled on this video, which is my current focus besides the chords+inversion.
i know, that i make great progress but i would be more confident if there would not be something else every other day, that i find and that seems important to learn. I need some guidelines that i can hang on to, so i know what to focus on at what point without the fear of missing something out.
hope you'll get more subscribers soon. your videos are great. you might use some titles that where a tiny bit more clickbaity, to get the attention you deserve. ;)
I agree with all you say! There’s a host of good stuff on YT and this is some of the best. I too would like to see a “road map” of how to get from A to B in playing piano. A road map showing the prerequisites and corequisites. I feel sure this channel has all the content and is making a great effort to produce the road map I’m looking to follow.
@@richardpalmer1967 2 Months ago Charles Berthoud uploaded a video called "How to master any instrument", which sortof provides such a guideline. even though a piano-specific would of course be even better ^^.
Anyway, i'd recommend to you to check it out
Awesome hack! Thank you!!❤
great new way for me to learn scales
thank you
I've seen a similar approach using tetrachords, based on how the scale can be viewed as WWH W WWH where the second half is a repeat of the first and the second half of a scale is the same as the first half of the next scale around the circle of fifths.
Brilliant! Been trying to learn piano scales for over 50 years. Always struggle with the weird ones: F#, Ab, B, C#. This 3,4 technique brings order to chaos. Seems it would be helpful to apply a similar trick to Aeolian mode: 2, 3, 2.
been teaching myself for around 2 years now using Synthesia method(i know shameful). I learned one piece via sheet music but it was laborious lol. Still need to eventually make the transition but i think scales and chords are a good way for me to start getting to that point. My mechanics are decent and i feel i improved a lot since I started, but a lot of my playing is just straight up memorizing patterns. I need a more intuitive understanding and this was helpful. Will be using this going forward. Thanks
To the point and concise. This is the way to teach piano ! As a 64 year old newbie I find your straightforward approach very enjoyable and Im using your teaching to understand how to play. My granddaughter is very happy that I can do one or two nursery rhymes,like I say I’m a complete beginner, but I will persevere thanks to your lessons. My real learning problem is try not to hit other notes as I try out cords, my fingers always seem to hit other keys ! Still early days for me and lots and lots of practice.👏👍
Thanks for the feedback! As for your chord troubles, I posted a video about that very thing a while ago, let me know if it helps! th-cam.com/video/UzY7Lgspdlo/w-d-xo.html
@@PianoFromScratch I will do, thank you maestro 👍
Getting started with your major scales work sheets and am happy to be back to practicing for the first time in 23 years! Love these videos. Such a great help. Question: I was wondering why the fingering for the major scales end on different fingers except for when we go to the major flat scales which end on the same fingers? It's probably something simple I haven't wrapped my brain around.
Hi, it just happens to be that way because we need to make a finger turn on the note just before.The major scales from the black keys don't begin on the thumb so it's kind of like they begin midway through a finger block. That would be easier to explain by showing you but honestly, I wouldn't overthink it! 👍
@@PianoFromScratch thanks man!! 🙏
Soooo helpful.....thanks!!!!
This is such a help, love your videos
How to unlock the brain…you really found a way! I like your approach better than any other teacher. Thank you 🙏🏻
This might be the most important music lesson I've learned. Thanks!
Yes it's really helpful to be able to recognise your different chords and scales etc clearly and easily
You are a natural teacher.
Thank you so so much man you are a real help
Well, that explains that! Such simplicity ... Many thanks!
You're welcome!
hugely beneficial. Thanks for this.
This video is awesome and so helpful. Thank you
Wow this video made me subscribe. Awesome.
Awesome!!!! Thanks so much!!!!!
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oh my god the 3 notes and 4 notes technique just opened my mind
Pretty helpful. Cool!
I'm a begginer-ish (well, been an owner of a piano for 3 days, but played some guitar), and I was sceptical of this at first but damn, it really works. Then just shift the 3rd 6th and 7th down a semitone and got the minor scale. Great stuff, though a bit of a shame you didn't mention that last part here.
Hi, I didn’t mention that purposely because it was off topic for this video and opens up another can of worms, there’s different types of minor scales so I have done separate videos on them and talk about flattening the 3, 6, 7. The idea is to learn majors first and once you can see them easily, then adjust it to see minors. Glad it helped though 🙂
Brilliant. Thank you.
Scale shape idea is original and helpful
Thanks so much buddy!
Hello brother! Thankyou for your tutorial, I m strugling to memorize and playing even shifting chords pls help out with easy steps, excercizes for beginers.
Amazing! After a few watches I get the concept lol I need a minor version of this
There is a minor scales theory playlist, check that out because I teach it so you can also find minor scales by adjusting the shapes and patterns 🙂 th-cam.com/play/PL95TTZURe5Uue4ogOmvlcdRvgqw2Qyvto.html
Excellent stuff! How important is it, when laying down the block of three and the block of four patterns, to use the fingering you are using?
Hi, it's not. I'm just using whichever fingers to try and point them out clearly in this video in aid of eventually just being able to visualise them. In terms of actually playing and practicing scales, there are standard set fingerings to use. I have a playlist going through playing each major scale on the channel you may find helpful th-cam.com/play/PL95TTZURe5Us_5Wz5aCWczSDmR5xO8p3P.html
Thank you!
This was brilliant.
Great advice. I like videos that teach you how to learn. Any tips for applying similar thinking to the Dorian mode?
Yes, check out my minor scales playlist for full details, in part 3 I go over how to find harmonic minor, melodic minor and Dorian just by altering the combinations of 6s and 7s from a natural minor. In the previous part 1, I talk about finding the natural minor by adjusting a major scale, flattening the 3rd, 6th and 7th. I think this is an important way to learn it because it's visual and helps you see and remember which intervals actually build these scales. Of course the other way to see Dorian is to picture the major scale a whole step below, so D Dorian has the same notes as C major (C is a whole step below D, D dorian is the 2nd mode of C) or for example G Dorian has the same notes as F Major (F is a whole step below G, G Dorian is the 2nd mode of F)
thank you for sharing
Hey, i have a question. Do you edit your own videos? I mean, in the beginning of this video, how did u demonstrate the keys you were pushing in red on the piano image above ur real piano? I'm just curious what app do u use for making these videos and edits?