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.

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My favorite scale book is The Ultimate Piano Workout by David Hicken, a famous English pianist.  This book writes out all major and minor, chromatic, and whole tone scales with the fingering, making them easy to learn.

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