How To Memorize EVERY Major Scale On Piano

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

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[PianoFromScratch]

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[muttstudios]

The whole block counting thing has literally unlocked my understanding of major keys. Thank you so freaking much for that simple and super effective way of breaking it down.

[LogioTek]

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.

[jeffteza]

That was an incredibly helpful tool to help visualize the keyboard instead of memorizing sharps and flats for different keys. Great stuff.

[amarie]

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

[craigcohen]

I've been a guitar player for 30+ years and have been trying to really learn piano and this video was invaluable in helping me visualize scales in a way that I hadn't before. Thank you!

[chrisw]

This deserves way more likes! So many things just clicked in my head seeing this. Especially when you said any letter isn't repeated, it's either a flat or sharp depending. Obvious now lol. Thanks man.

[deltacomatso]

I just play scales one at the time, it doesnt take long before you have memorized all 12. C, C#, D, 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.

[charlottewarburton]

I have been trying to tolerate learning scales for years and this is revolutionary knowledge to me! thanks so much dude, so pleased I found this video!!!

[nathalieheath]

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!!

[thomascordery]

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.

[lilyle]

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

[manu-singh]

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

[juniesdream]

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.

[amaizenblue]

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 !

[markjulie]

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)

[JamsODonnell]

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…🎶

[pcnite]

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.

[leavesfromthevine]

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.

[lyravisionmusic]

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