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I depends on what your goals are. If you are wanting to play advanced level classical music, then you need to two octaves, preferable hands together. If you want to play pop music by ear, two octaves, hands separately will be helpful. If you are looking to improve your theory knowledge, one octave is fine. In my opinion, two octave scales played hands separately gives you the most versatility.
On the melodic you go up and down differently. Is it important to practice it like that or up and down the same way? I'm a bit confused. Does the melodic ever go down the same way as it goes up?
Great question. Consider that a scale is just a demonstration/explanation of one of the structures that you can find in music. And that in practice, composers use them in many different ways. I have found the melodic minor frequently used both ascending and descending. And contrary to what a lot of folks think, the melodic minor occurs frequently. It is not just a 'theoretical" concept. Versatility is a good thing. Practice it all different ways!
Yes. Very similar to the way I learned it. We all learned the F-A-C-E for the spaces of the treble clef. I look at the F-A-C-E as repeating over and over, even through the bass clef, but it alternates between spaces and lines. Not the same thing. But similar and just another way of thinking about it.
in all the vds on the subject the same mistake is made: the camera should show the finger from the side, as if the student is sitting next to the teacher, not from above, becuase its hard to see which finger is been used.
I'm not convinced that showing the side of the hand would make the fingering clearer. One thing that you could try here, is slowing down the video a bit. That should help you see the fingering. On our subscription site however, we include the fingering in the video frame.
On our subscription site, we have all the keys. Our RU-vid playlist only has samples. But I added a bunch more to the playlist today. Are there any specific keys that you would like me to add? Here is a link to our playlist that has scales, arpeggios, and chord inversions. ru-vid.com/group/PLs4lP4fH-zDMvzivfpaNbI4p-6_Gx8JdE&si=4aMj5qA4VsVtivUE
This is a great way to tie Treble and Bass notes together. As a former Bass Horn player who is learning piano, this really makes it easy to recognize the notes. Thanks so much for sharing!
Yea, but these tempos are meant to be a goal tempo. After you become comfortable playing a piece at a slower speed, you might want to try working up to his tempo! This might take some time though. Set your metronome to a comfortable tempo and gradually work up to the goal tempo. Also, remember to continue to practice hands separately as well as hands together. Notice any spots that are not smooth and focus extra on those spots. Good luck!
I saw another landmark map that is GBDFACE, that covers more notes so perhps that's more convenient. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3A6NcbSJpHU.htmlsi=zUOhpFQRmdVWPOoS&t=352
Thanks for the link to that video. A landmark serves as a reference note for the notes close by. This video isn't really providing landmarks. Instead, it is naming all of the lines and spaces on the staff. To me, that is less useful because it requires more things to remember and removes some of the focus on the symmetry of the staff. However, whichever works for you is the best way.
this is eye opening. The Landmark acronym FACE has ruined the whole ease of this magical ACE. There is one mystery in my mind, why are they symmetrical when on the keyboard its not symmetrical
We also think it is pretty great. For me, the symmetry derives from middle C being dead center in the grand staff and the treble and bass notes moving away from the center. I can't give a better answer to this, however.
Why is it preferable to use the 5 finger in a triad? A lot of times in sheet music a chord will add an octave note to the triad. If you use 1-2-4 or 1-3-4 for triads then it's a simple matter to add the octave using the 5 finger and the hands will be used to the same basic position. That doesn't happen often in the left hand, but it does a lot in the right hand.
Thanks for this question. You are quite correct. When you play a 4-note chord, the fingering would be quite different. The reason that we teach it this way is to encourage a relaxed technical development. So, avoiding stretches within the hand is one way to do that in the early stages. In our curriculum, we teach gradual extensions so that the pianist develops a relaxed technique. Another reason is visual. Playing triads with a 5-finger position based fingering help a beginning student to "see the shape of the triad."
@@eNovativePiano Thanks for the reply. I'm past the beginner stage so I will go with what works for me. I'm trying to develop muscle memory for the different piano chords like happened when I learned guitar chords. It's different, but in some ways it's similar. I want to get to where I play consistent chord shapes automatically without thinking about the fingering.
Perfect visual 👍Perfect fifths are played with either 0:20 2 white keys (skipping 3 white) or 0:55 2 black keys (skipping 2 black) 1:23 Exceptions; 1:50 Practice
