Mastering The Piano: Scales--Giving the Students a Strategy for Foolproof Fingerings

[TimTamTtime]

I learned how to do that when I learned scales when I was little!

[tonyven66]

Oh my goodness!! I love this. I'm a new teacher and it's always tough for me to watch both hands when my students play the scales to ensure that they have the fingering correct. This makes SO much sense.

[clipbrowser]

i wish she was my granny :)

[mariesalas]

I wish I had known this when I was learning my scales. Thank you, it's extremely useful.

[ainsleyhallmark]

OMG! The four finger rule makes SO much sense.

This is for teaching children and im a teenager :/ Oh well! At least my scales will get better! :)

[4hm3dimr4n]

it's funny, i figured that rule was common sense to all musician

i never had a teacher tell me that but i did figure it out myself when i started to practice sclaes

it also helps to see the whole scale as a shape that appears when all the other keys outside the scale disappear

[marizpiano]

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[julymaeandaloc]

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[allenvcpascua]

scales are skin of fish

[wendygroth]

scales are the best way to learn any instrument period.. especially if you will wan't to be writting music

[louieboto]

people like that take all the fun and joy out of playing music.

[louieboto]

.... i'd tell her where she could put her thumb.

[Topless2some]

The fourth finger rule doesn't apply to F Major

[voiceintheradio]

Yes this is true. My teacher says the same thing. Also make sure to practice scales for 2 octaves up and down instead of 1.

[103959770979]

pro rulez

[Crunkmastaflexx]

she sounds like a bitch

[gentlehealing]

@Crunkmastaflexx thats a hateful thing to say about someone mother

[Vendetta5246]

I hate scales...

[way2go22]

what is the name of the scales piece at beginning of this video?

[ShadowHeartsFlight07]

I STILL cant find a close up on anyone playing the scale in the left hand ASCENDING I can't figure out what finger is it exactly or how is it played that crosses over/under? but that little thing about the 4th finger being on D that is a little extra piece to me the picture a little clearer

[scotrie2009]

to whom ever posted this video....

did u record this video?

if yes, is this in Montebello, CA?

(First Fundamental Biblical Church of Montebello)

-inside the gym?

[trin718]

wow....she said finger the scales...lol...jk

[jadlerhalofan]

i never knew that rule on fingering! great video!

[cziffra1980]

Fair way of putting it, but personally I describe it even more specifically (at least for the regular scales that start on white notes). The fourth fingers only land NEXT to the key-note (except when using the separate thumbs-always-together fingering pattern which is needed to those on F and B). That way, all you really need to do is keep a consistent sense of the tonic note as being the primary point of focus (one that gets enclosed by 4s, with 3s occuring as standard elsewhere).

[loutopdrummer]

fit

[07dwarves]

Very very helpful. Much appreciated. Thank you.

[JBRMB]

A great concept for teaching fingerings in the Scales. Good tool to use for teachers and students.

JBRMB

[JBRMB]

A great new concept of teaching fingerings for the scales. Very useful for teachers and students. Hopefully many will use it.

JBRMB