Practising your piano scales is probably the single best thing you can do for your piano playing. In this tutorial we explore how you can approach scales to make them more absorbing and rewarding, and exactly why regular scale practice is so very useful.
Along the way we dig into ideas about exercise and habit and think of ways you can build a scale practice that dramatically increases your control, expression and musicality on the piano.
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00:00 Piano scales are puzzles
00:32 The first puzzle: C major scale, right hand
01:17 The three key factors
03:20 Adding a black note (F major)
04:07 Two smoothing strategies
04:56 More black notes, dynamics and the left hand
06:48 WHY are scales so useful? WHY!?
09:34 Piling on the challenge: scales with two hands!
10:48 Using a metronome to target regularity
12:04 The power of piano scales as habits
13:26 A health warning
13:48 !!THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE!!
15:43 There is no end point
16:02 Building your scale practice
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