It's not just another piano lesson… It's a physical, intellectual, and spiritual journey!
Learning Outcomes To profoundly understand the role that scales play in the function of music, both melodically and harmonically. . To expand your visio-spatial awareness of the piano keyboard. To develop your aural comprehension by expand your conception and perception of pitches in functional terms. To develop Relative Pitch (RP), the ability to comprehend and perceive pitch
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Two lessons here: Lead with your arms and don’t be afraid to lean! Enjoy! [youtube https://youtube.com/watch?v=TdDiEEHiuTQ&w=560&h=315
Continue readingCrossover technique as required for the fluid execution of scales is widely misunderstood and a lot easier than you think… Enjoy! [youtube https://youtube.com/watch?v=PM7fdd4uVs4&w=560&h=315
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Note: This lesson comes in three parts, because it was uploaded to YouTube when videos were limited to 10 minutes max duration. [youtube https://youtube.com/watch?v=8TzmbsiQzUQ&w=560&h=315 [youtube https://youtube.com/watch?v=0bhrOKdjV4g&w=560&h=315 [youtube https://youtube.com/watch?v=CoEvWxtzl2I&w=560&h=315 LEARN MORE… How Your Body & the Piano Work Together: Arpeggios
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Single Notes, Repeated Notes, Five in a Row, Scales, Arpeggios, Chords, Reversals, Skips… Fundamental patterns that you are gpoing to see again and again in every kind of music. With each one of these patterns that you master you will eliminate another technical obstacle from your playing and, with that mastery you greatly expand the kinds
Continue readingA scale is so much more than a string of notes that go up and down in “steps”. Every scale is a musical pattern that is rich in harmonic relationships. Each scale is a palette of sound-feelings that have various degrees of harmonic stability-instability and harmonic tension-resolution.
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The Dorian Scale has a darkish, minorish, sometimes jazzy quality that is widely used in Pop, Jazz, Rock, and Folk musics… C Dorian Scale: Notation, Scale Degrees, Solfege & Keyboard Layout… Tip: The notes in the C Dorian Scale are the same as the C Mixolydian scale with one exception: Eb (Me) instead of E (Mi). Thus,
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Every scale has as many modes as it has notes. Each mode is simply the same notes in the parent scale played starting on each possible note. Such knowledge prepares the way for fluent improvisation… where the ability to see and hear the relationships between chords and their related modes is an important part of your skill
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Never, ever play scales as mere “exercises”, like mindlessly lifting weights or doing jumping jacks. This is not good preparation for performance. Scale study, done right, should make your brain, not your body, tired. To that end, keep the following points in mind… Always play scales musically… with musical phrasing, articulation, and dynamics. Always play with good
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