 Hi! This is video instruction for one octave major scales for Viola. Now I want to stress to you that there is a handout that you can use to accompany this lesson. You can find it posted on the NCSSM Orchestra Moodle site and probably some other places as well. Ask me if you don't have a copy of that worksheet. For Viola, one octave major scales, and frankly for all of the two and three octave major scales as well, we're going to be thinking about finger patterns. So if you haven't already done so, please refer to the finger pattern exercises that can be found online as well. When we're doing a one octave major scale on the Viola, it's really very easy if you're thinking about finger patterns. For any note or any scale other than our open string scales, we will be starting on first finger and really just thinking about the finger patterns that we're playing. For instance, if we find third position on the C string and play our three four finger pattern on the C string and the three four finger pattern on the G string, we get an F major scale. But as long as we start on first finger on any string and play that three four finger pattern, we'll get a major scale. For instance, first finger on the C string is the note D, three four finger pattern on the C string, three four finger pattern on the G string, D major scale. If we start on D flat, it's the same finger patterns. Three four finger pattern on the C string, three four finger pattern on the G string. If we start on E flat, which is up a half step from the note D, same thing. Finger pattern is three four. The beauty of the one octave scale is it's from first finger through the finger pattern on a string, through it on another string, and we've done the one octave. So one octave major scales on the viola are really fairly simple. Let's start by playing a one octave F major scale on beginning on the C string. You've played the one octave major scale starting on first finger on the C string. We did the F major scale. Now let's talk about the major scales that start with an open string. So we'll start with a C major scale. For a C major scale, the finger pattern is the two three finger pattern on the C string and the two three finger pattern on the G string. We're going to be thinking about a three four finger pattern on both the G and the C strings and we're going to run through all of the major scales beginning with a D flat. Major one octave scale, one octave scale. F major, F sharp major.