The Importance of practising scales
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Vlog 19 - Practising scales in the right way will improve your piano technique and help you learn all the keys.
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I agree that practicing scales daily will improve technique and learn all the keys. Not only that, depending how you practice scales they can improve your musicality too. I've practiced scales since my 2nd year of piano study until college, from one to four octaves parallel motion in octave, thirds, sixth, tenth, as well as contrary motion. Added to those were chords, arpeggios, and cadences. I practiced scales and arpeggios with crescendo going higher and decrescendo going lower, with legato and staccato. As a pro now I don't practice scales daily, but with all those years of practicing scales, arpeggios, and chords all of them become natural, meaning my brain and fingers have memorized all 24 keys. At anytime I can recall any scales/chords/arpeggios from memory. Scale passages in music don't intimidate me because I immediately see patterns and my fingers automatically play the correct fingerings, and I also play my scale passage musically.
This is how I want to be, by God’s grace, to play skillfully in the piano and be able to play any church song; I play piano for my church.
How many hours a day did you practice scales?
I love practicing scales. I wish that my class would focus more on them. Thank you for this video
Thank you - I'm really glad you found it useful.
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Thank you so much
And thank you Melanie Spanswick for a great channel.
Totally in awe with the musical introduction at the beginning and end! Very classy and one day I hope to play like that!
Thank you!
Hello,Could you recommend a scales book for classical pianist.
Thank you
Faber Music offer a book about practising scales: The PianoTrainer Scales Workbook.
@@ClassicalMel Thank you for your reply
what minor scale should i learn?...
Hi Garry, Thanks for your comment. Don't know which scales you are missing unless I know which ones you have learnt! There are certain enharmonic keys.....
As I said I'm not against playing scales.From recordings I have heard a lot of great pianoplaying from pianists that didn't play scales,Walter Klien,Alfred Brendel and Walter Gieseking.Maybe they played scales when they were young.Sorry for my comment.Anyway I agree it's fun to play piano.I left the piano when I was 17 but
my interest came back listening to recordings.
EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT video such great explanation. I really appreciate it so much, I subscribed.
I'm not suggesting that you only have to practice scales! It's up to you how you develop your technique, but many young players want to pass exams and to do this scale practice is necessary!
Thank you! I've just started learning this week and I wonder how many scales should a beginner memorize?
Maybe just a few? Certainly no more than a few at a time - slowly, so you can really internalize the patterns and fingerings. Good luck!
Thank you :)
I didn't mean it's any wrong playing scales.Actually I don't bother.I had the
best pianoteacher in the world(over 30 years ago and she is still alive I think).For her ,scales were very important but I never did was she said even how angry she was ,so she gave up haha.I remember I played some Czerny
and loved it.
Czerny would would have you play scales no questions asked.
What's the piece in the intro?
Chopin's Prelude in A major.
Well,totally wrong.You can be a very excellent pianist without practising scales.
Very new to playing piano. I can get lost in scales for a long time. They don’t get boring because I know I can actually do them.
Been saying this many try to take short cuts may learn to play but will be limited scales open up a horizon to play more colorful and skillfull fundamentals are key to playing
Thank you! This is encouraging and provides a path to learning. Like yor term of geography. Makes sense.
Nice video and good explanation! You would think all piano teachers would emphasize scales in the way you did, but it is rare!!!
Hi, You don't have to apologise! I'm all for discussion and I try to keep all comments on here....I don't like deleting any. You are right...many great pianists don't practice scales...I guess you have to find a way that works for you. My musings are purely for those who have played them and want some help. So glad you like my channel...thank you :-)
Im a woodwind player and this video fits me perfectly
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Thanks. Why aren't scales presented in measures, with emphasis on certain beats, just like scale passages that actually appear in a piece? This, it seems to me, would be more beneficial, as you would be practicing more like you are actually going to play.
My students do often practice them this way. There are many ways to work at scales and arpeggios.
@@ClassicalMel Thanks. I know there are scale studies etc, as you describe. But it still strikes me as odd that the main way we are presented with scales is as I've describe. Hundreds of hours preparing for exams, doing something you won't ever do when playing an actual piece, i.e, long passages in which there is no measures, no stresses on beat 1, beat 3, whatever.