The EASIEST Way To Memorize Every Major Scale On Piano

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  • čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
  • It's really important that we can easily picture major scale on piano with really thinking about it to avoid going off course and using the wrong notes when we're actually playing music. Truly memorizing a scale is more than just learning to play it up and down!
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    0:00 What we're doing
    0:46 The Major Scale Pattern In 2 Simple Blocks
    3:00 The Major Scale Pattern In Steps
    3:50 Repeating The Blocks In 2 (or more) Octaves
    4:00 Finding Whole Steps
    5:03 Finding Major Scales Quickly Using 2 Blocks Of Notes
    8:05 Why Use Blocks? Blocks VS Steps
    10:45 More Examples Finding Major Scales
    11:33 How To Practice
    12:56 Interval Names
    #beginnerpiano #majorscales #pianoscales
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Komentáře • 72

  • @PianoFromScratch
    @PianoFromScratch  Před 4 měsíci +6

    Check out the in depth scales & Chords guides here pianofs.com/downloads/
    🔽Below is a list of the other helpful major scales videos mentioned 🔽
    All the major scale fingerings
    czcams.com/video/bm9fgq9COgI/video.html
    Learn the chords we find inside a major scale
    czcams.com/video/m1wiXZ7Zn28/video.html Chords in a key
    Learn major scales in this useful order & pattern
    czcams.com/video/yTr-RFBekuY/video.html
    These mistakes make playing scales feel difficult
    czcams.com/video/rAKnMUKlpSs/video.html

    • @sinaahengombe3477
      @sinaahengombe3477 Před 3 měsíci

      A1

    • @timothyirwin8974
      @timothyirwin8974 Před měsícem

      Bought them 2 moths back and have practiced them daily almost. Going over this video and the lessons makes more sense for me now.

  • @LogioTek
    @LogioTek Před 4 měsíci +14

    Great lesson! Visual learning way is always better because your brain is designed to interpret a lot of information at once in the image and memorize/recall patterns.

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Před 4 měsíci +6

      I think it really helps with piano in general. Theory is really important but on piano we still need to quickly find the notes we need and become familiar with patterns on the instrument itself. Linking theory with the visual side has always worked best for me and made theory more practically useful.

  • @amarie693
    @amarie693 Před 4 měsíci +6

    I’ve watched lots of piano lesson videos. This is the first I’ve seen about learning shapes, very helpful!
    Thank you!

  • @gis3326
    @gis3326 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Excellent explanation. Thank you!

  • @nathalieheath5693
    @nathalieheath5693 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Spot on! I discovered this while working through the majors slowly through using the pattern. Since I discovered this, it’s been so much easier!!

  • @eprand3
    @eprand3 Před 4 měsíci +1

    This is excellent! Thank you so much.

  • @drparin
    @drparin Před měsícem

    Really great lesson. Thanks.

  • @MinusMedley
    @MinusMedley Před 3 měsíci

    Brilliant, simplified a lot of theory for me too.

  • @brianwest9831
    @brianwest9831 Před 4 měsíci

    Good lesson thanks easy to follow and explained well

  • @palvalheim6417
    @palvalheim6417 Před 4 měsíci

    Interesting! Can’t wait to try the practice routine you suggested 😊

  • @lyravisionmusic
    @lyravisionmusic Před 3 měsíci

    Bloody brilliant exposition of shapes mate. Shapes are the key to mastering dynamic musical expression and emotional storytelling.

  • @juniesdream
    @juniesdream Před 4 měsíci +1

    Thanks so much for this one, you don't know how excited I am to practice this. I went and bought the PDF bundle for it as well. Cheers man.

  • @akmt123
    @akmt123 Před 4 měsíci

    Excellent, cheers from Canada.

  • @thomascordery7951
    @thomascordery7951 Před 3 měsíci

    So valuable for us visual learners! Not just us I'm sure; just that I'm recognizing how great this concept is for those of us "afflicted" with that learning style.

  • @emmaA-
    @emmaA- Před 4 měsíci

    Interesting! Thanks for the video 🌟

  • @JamsODonnell100
    @JamsODonnell100 Před 3 měsíci

    Eye opening (literally) ! 👁️
    Loved the ‘chunking up’ approach.
    Like for too long I’ve been using the step by step approach, based on a knowledge of key signatures and determining what notes are ‘allowed’ based on that, and always starting from the tonic. Thus usually ending up on relying on written notation-
    Any interpretation of the sheet music being hesitant and confused…,
    this is such an alternative way of ‘looking’ at scales. Much more holistic.
    So clever to break the scale into two parts. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that before 🤔
    Really helpful (insightful), thanks very much. ✅
    *Looking* forward to using it…🎶

  • @renan_delon
    @renan_delon Před 4 měsíci +2

    You're so damn right, how I could not see this? now I feel stupid, but thanks!

  • @lospopularos
    @lospopularos Před 2 měsíci

    Nice idea. I’d never thought of this before. Thank you.

  • @St.Pa-al
    @St.Pa-al Před 4 měsíci

    This is great Max & i can't thank you enough on chord inversion shapes.

  • @charlesrose7212
    @charlesrose7212 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Great lesson again! 😊

  • @mamphoagnes7418
    @mamphoagnes7418 Před 4 měsíci

    This will help me a lot thank you so much 😊

  • @chicagopete3516
    @chicagopete3516 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Fantastic explanation! Thanks!

  • @markjulie2072
    @markjulie2072 Před 3 měsíci

    I have just started learning piano (2 weeks - whooo! - lol) Your teaching method is perfect. Visual patterns are really helpful to "see music" and not just hear a load of numbers or letters. You have a new subscriber in me. Thank you so much. Mark :o)

  • @user-oo4sr1nf9q
    @user-oo4sr1nf9q Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you this is the best

  • @amaizenblue2266
    @amaizenblue2266 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Absolutely fantastic presentation. You are to be commented on your use of colorful teaching aids to solidify the salient points beyond the necessary, albeit abstract, intervalic formula. Great job !

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Thanks! I try to get things across as clearly as I can 👍

  • @norakat
    @norakat Před 3 měsíci

    You’re a genius!

  • @lilyle9714
    @lilyle9714 Před 2 měsíci

    Omg this IS THE right way to memorize scales. It just turns that chaos into complete order!

  • @manu-singh
    @manu-singh Před 4 měsíci +1

    Hi sir, Please try to upload more regularly, I love learning from your videos

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Thanks! I will try, it's been christmas holidays here recently but back on it now!

  • @deltacomatso173
    @deltacomatso173 Před 12 dny

    I just play scales one at the time, it doesnt take long before you have memorized all 12. C, C#, D, ........and so on. It is really fun. And you must use correct fingering from start, just look at a fingering sheet, right hand and left hand. Chromatic scale with correct fingering is also fun and useful.

  • @emmanuelkimutai6717
    @emmanuelkimutai6717 Před 4 měsíci

    I love this kudos

  • @pc2nite
    @pc2nite Před 4 měsíci +1

    Very good idea, thank you. These 3 and 4 note patterns are also fragments of the scale called the whole tone or augmented one. There are only two sets of 6 notes. Maybe learning both could help getting used to whole tones which is a large part of the pattern.

  • @vincentgoosse4570
    @vincentgoosse4570 Před 8 dny

    Briliant. No other words

  • @norakat
    @norakat Před 3 měsíci

    I think what’s challenging is knowing the 3rd/5th/7ths/9ths etc. in a changing chord progression and knowing exactly where they are for each chord as a song is played.
    Since you asked..

  • @mojsterr
    @mojsterr Před 4 měsíci

    Damn I love your channel

  • @rabmacleod6331
    @rabmacleod6331 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Super help! Thank you could you do the blues and pent ?

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Consider it done 😉
      czcams.com/video/Vj-BOmKgdE4/video.html

  • @leavesfromthevine4465
    @leavesfromthevine4465 Před 3 měsíci

    You should really group according to hand turns(where you need to pass thumb down or rotate wrist and jump). After a few sessions and the muscle memory kicks in, your brain won't need to visualise major/minor pattern. But grouping and phrasing according to natural hand position will be invaluable to breaking long melodic lines in all your practice-eternity. That is luckily very similar with what is grouped here but it breakes for example in f major where the b flat should be grouped with the f-g-a before it.

  • @maroshinduliak6778
    @maroshinduliak6778 Před 4 měsíci

    Hi there!! amazing video! Can you please do this for minor scale as well? also can we apply relative minor to major scale?

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Před 4 měsíci +1

      I have an older video series on minor scales already you can check out covering all that. I may do an ‘all in one’ video at some point though 👍

  • @user-pl4nk2sb9f
    @user-pl4nk2sb9f Před 2 měsíci

    I like the technique at 12:44.
    But if it's about learning the scale in steps, shouldn't it be a half step at the 4th key then as well?

  • @andream6533
    @andream6533 Před 4 měsíci

    This is great! Thank you for showing us how to visualize the major scales. I know I will find it helpful in my learning journey!

  • @louiscornale5667
    @louiscornale5667 Před měsícem +1

    Great for wooly bully watch it now 😮

  • @lospopularos
    @lospopularos Před 2 měsíci

    The most challenging for me is being able to play all the inversions of complex jazz chords fast enough without having to think.

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Před 2 měsíci

      Yes more complex chords can be tougher. With jazz voicings though that include extensions (9ths 11ths or 13ths), in practice you likely won’t end up using every inversion like you would with basic chords. Practice time for those better spent on the particular voicings you will find useful.

    • @lospopularos
      @lospopularos Před 2 měsíci

      @@PianoFromScratch Thank you.

  • @akmt123
    @akmt123 Před 4 měsíci

    Though I play the guitar with the L hand and also the Keyboard with the L hand too as just cannot use my R hand!!!
    Why is this, and, how can I get out of this dilemma as playing Chords on the Keyboard is no problem at all with my L hand and my R hand is too weak to play the Melody!

    • @oldunclemick
      @oldunclemick Před 4 měsíci +1

      I had a similar problem with my left hand. Repetition and giving extra practice to the weak hand (as in spending twice as much time working on it) is the only thing that has helped me.

    • @akmt123
      @akmt123 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@oldunclemick Thanks....will try it seriously now....

  • @Practicalmusicministryskil4906

    Thank you for this video! I share a free bite by bite “learn to read music” program on my CZcams channel in the hopes of making music literacy accessible to all!

  • @molotulo8808
    @molotulo8808 Před 9 hodinami

    Tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone! Major scale

  • @gazza363
    @gazza363 Před měsícem

    4 plus 3 a major chord for me.... 3 plus 4 a minor on the floor.

  • @raymarch3576
    @raymarch3576 Před 4 měsíci

    what I don't get is why we don't just arrange the keys differently to make all those patterns more regular. Looking at everything through the lens of this particular scale by building it into the placement of white and black keys seems like an additional burden with no benefits. Or maybe I just don't see the benefits of seeing everything from a "c major"ish perspective.
    Bass players seem to just get so much faster through all of this because they have regular all-fourths tuning. I feel like I'm wasting my time deciphering obfuscating patterns rather than useful aspects of notes and music.
    Its like the QUERTY keyboard, but for musicians.
    Idk if anyone will read this, but my question to experienced musicians would be: If you could rewrite history and design the key-instrument that future generations have to use (and that gets hardcoded into all music software and notation), would you build it again with this particular layout?

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Před 4 měsíci

      It’s a good question but unfortunately I can’t imagine another layout that would work any better. If all 12 notes were in a straight line of keys (like the white keys) that would solve 1 issue but then the keys would become so spread out the piano would become unplayable.
      Hang in there, you’re not wasting time, there’s a point where the common shapes and patterns you need like chords and scales become familiar enough to navigate them confidently. They become part of your everyday vocabulary but it just does take some time and experience with the help of a little focused practice 👍

    • @michaelfisher6817
      @michaelfisher6817 Před 4 měsíci

      Easy to visualize. Will look at other videos.😊

    • @pc2nite
      @pc2nite Před 4 měsíci +1

      Check out the chromatic button accordion and Linnstrument.

    • @raymarch3576
      @raymarch3576 Před 4 měsíci

      @@pc2nite yeah I'm almost at the point where I'm ordering a Linnstrument. it looks amazing

    • @pc2nite
      @pc2nite Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@raymarch3576Search for balanced opinions first. I am not experienced. Despite many attempts to replace it the piano abides. Some of what you now see as disadvantages may prove their worth. Good luck and sweet music.

  • @portraitofalion
    @portraitofalion Před 4 měsíci

    All ideas are welcome becasue keys are weird.

  • @victorchen3245
    @victorchen3245 Před 4 měsíci +1

    The easiest way to “visualize”, not really “memorize”. Thanks for sharing though.

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Před 4 měsíci +3

      Well I think they’re linked, by memorising a pattern to find all the scales, that in turn helps you memorise the scales themselves.
      When we have 12 keys to learn every type of chord and scale in, it’s really important to learn how to build each type as opposed to just to just learning/reciting every single one individually, it’s more like a ‘teach a man to fish’ kind of deal. 👍