Major Scale Fingering… showing finger choice and placement over two octaves in both hands for all keys…
C Major Scale Fingering
Hint: These charts are aligned as they are because it’s essential to center yourself both physically and mentally on middle D (the green triangle). Such centering is a critical for developing your visuospatial keyboard awareness.
Major Scale Fingering, All Keys
Showing the approximate locations of your fingertips, arranged around the cycle of dominants…
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I am learning key board in my old age.
Music to my ears, Victor. Besides becoming a better person, playing piano is the only thing I can get better at with age. Cheers!
Very useful. I’ve seen this site some time before, but I only found this today from a google search. With there being so much information available here, I recommend having a resource/downloads section. Feels kind of buried away.
Thanks for the words of appreciation and feedback, my anonymous friend. Your observation and suggestion is well taken. So, I added a top level category/menu item called “Study Aids”. It will take a few days for me to do a complete update, but you can check it out here as it develops…
https://piano-ology.com/category/study-aids/
Thanks again. And please don’t hesitate to share more feedback and ideas.
All the best,
Frank
Hi. You say centre yourself at middle D. Everything I’ve read/heard elsewhere, says o do so at middle C. Please explain your rationale. Thanks.
Thanks for asking, Anonymous…
https://piano-ology.com/piano-technique/keyboard-layout-the-four-middles/