WHY ARE
SCALES
EMMA BLAIR PIANO
IMPORTANT?
Scales gently warm up the hands and strengthen the fingers, getting your piano practice off to a great start.
LEARN ALL THE KEY SIGNATURES
Learning all 12 major and 12 minor keys will help you sight read, improvise, compose, and study music theory.
LEARN A NEW PIECE
FASTER
Once you know your scales, you'll recognize patterns in music, which will help you learn new music more quickly.
IMPROVE YOUR SPEED & EXPRESSION
Scales are an easy way to increase the speed and agility of your fingers. Improve your touch and tone by adding crescendos, dimuendos, and staccato notes to your scales.
HELP YOU PASS MUSIC EXAMS
Having all the major and minor scales memorized, along with their accompanying triads, chords, and arpeggios will make passing the technique aspect of an exam easy.
GREAT WORK!
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KEYBOARD GEOGRAPHY
Playing scales, especially in three or four octaves, will get you accustomed to playing notes at extreme ends of the keyboard. You'll feel much more confident when playing the piano!
IMPROVE YOUR FINGERING
SYNCHRONIZE THE HANDS
GET BETTER AT SIGHT READING
MAKE THE THUMBS FLEXIBLE
You'll be amazed at how you'll have a much more natural flow and fingering when playing songs!
Master the skill of playing the right and left hands in perfect synchronization.
You'll recognize patterns and key signatures in a flash, making sight reading so much easier.
There's lots of tucking your thumbs in scales! This will help you when playing fast scalar passages in advanced music.