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Piano Technique: Finger Crossovers

Crossover technique as required for the fluid execution of scales is widely misunderstood and a lot easier than […]

2012-01-29 Piano Technique

Scales: Ways to Know a Scale: Performance

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Never, ever, ever, ever, ever play scales as mere “exercises”…

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2011-02-03 Scales

Scales: Ways to Know a Scale: Keyboard Awareness

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Mapping the melodic-harmonic function of each note in a scale to its visio-spatial layout of the keyboard is a huge advance in your musicianship…

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2011-02-03 Scales

Scales: Ways to Know a Scale: Introduction

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A scale is so much more than a row of notes to be mindlessly played up and down the keyboard as physical exercise day after day after day…

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2011-02-03 Scales

Scales: A Non-Linear View

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Did you know… that a scale is so much more than a string of notes that go up and down in “steps”?

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2011-02-01 Scales

Scales: Number System or Solfege?

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As we learned in the previous two lessons on scale structure, both the Number System and Solfege can be used to describe the very same musical stuff…

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2011-02-01 Scales

Scales: What is a Scale?

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A Scale is a collection of pitches that work together in order to achieve some melodic-harmonic purpose…

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2011-02-01 Scales

Scales: Why Study Scales?

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Studying Scales, done right, is essential to understanding how an enormous amount of music works…

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2011-02-01 Scales
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