The most powerful exercise to learn any scale.

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LESSON SUMMARY
Many piano students find themselves frustrated and confused when practicing scales, especially when it comes to understanding piano scale fingerings. In today's Quick Tip, The Ultimate Scale Exercise, Jonny May helps piano students understand how scale fingerings for various different piano scales are actually related.

► Beginner Foundations Learning Track:

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - How Most Students Learn Scales
01:19 - 3 Problems with this Method
01:48 - The Fixed Finger Exercise
02:11 - Step 1: Learn the 4 "C" Blocks
04:36 - Step 2: Learn the 5 "F" Blocks
06:43 - Step 3: Put the Blocks Together
10:47 - Step 4: Learn the "B" and "E" Blocks
12:19 - Step 5: Learn the "E" Blocks
14:21 - Step 6: Put the Blocks Together
18:14 - Conclusion
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Happy practicing!
Jonny May

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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - How Most Students Learn Scales
01:19 - 3 Problems with this Method
01:48 - The Fixed Finger Exercise
02:11 - Step 1: Learn the 4 "C" Blocks
04:36 - Step 2: Learn the 5 "F" Blocks
06:43 - Step 3: Put the Blocks Together
10:47 - Step 4: Learn the "B" and "E" Blocks
12:19 - Step 5: Learn the "E" Blocks
14:21 - Step 6: Put the Blocks Together
18:14 - Conclusion

[spada]

You can’t really tell me that this method you are teaching is easier than the whole step half step method. No way

[Miracle-J]

It’s not any easier than the traditional method. Thanks. 🙏

[DieterLo]

As beginner with little knowledge at least tried it. A very new experience! But good! So far could handle it slow. Knowledge with accordion was helpful, but usually played easy things.

[Daozhille]

Pretty interesting approach. Thank you for the lesson

[rigelrin]

Interesting but i learned scale w circle of 5th and it easier to remember for me

[ajacsson]

First comment Jonny May! Best Piano teacher ❤🎉😂

[swanebrokendeep]

Amazing method Jonny! Thanks a lot for sharing that! As a song writer, I'm now a fan of your you tube Chanel! I'm a vocal coach too and it's a good exercice fo ear training for my students too! God bless you! Swane.

[topsingermorales]

Great..I need to keep trying to practice more..thankyou..you're a great teacher..wish I could afford your materials

[seanonel]

The best way to learn scales is to figure them out yourself using known constants; eg all major scales can be thought of as being broken into two pieces ie 2 1/2 tones followed by 3 1/2 tones. By counting the scale out, it becomes easier to see their unique shapes. Once I learned this, I had all major scales memorised in a week. This also meant that I now knew the scales for their relative minors. By looking at the relative minor scales, I could learn the formula for minor scales which meant in just over a week I had all 24 major and natural minor scales worked out. Then all I had to do was practice them and find fingerings that I liked...

Trying to learn things by memorising them parrot fashion is an extremely tedious and inefficient way of acquiring new knowledge and understanding...

[lpa]

Thank you for your interesting video, but it is so confusing when you use flats in your diagrams instead of sharps. I did notice you used the correct sign a couple of times but then changed back again. I know they are the same tone if I stop to think about it, but first it’s just confusing and very annoying. Sorry.

[jenniferfernandes]

Hi Jonny, Thank you so much for this, I tried it out and it has become by daily warmup routine now, it is indeed a great approach to practicing the scales but this video is not for beginners, to understand this people should have a fair knowledge of basic music theory regarding how to form a diatonic - major, minor, aug, dim and knowing what church modes are, their chord functions and scale degrees to understand this approach properly and for that you need to understand the traditional approach first.

Overall I love your content.Thank you for this, it has helped me a lot. You've got a new sub <3

[DieterLo]

As beginner with a piano I want to learn it, but it takes time.

[denisbaumann]

Hi Jonny; thanks for this lesson, excellent as usual❤ but I didn't receive the PDF booklet on my e-mail adress🤔

[rghigham]

How do you know which block goes with which scale?

[pcnite]

Thanks for teaching this very clever lateral thinking exercise. May I ask where you think it might have originated please?

[VzlaAndJAZZ]

What software do you use to make the piano appear on the screen?

[grassmugge]

If You learn to play a C You know how to play a partial scale of fourteen keys plus another fourteen enharmonic substitutes.

[MoonWatchr]

Feels like a reach, Jonny. More complex, less intuitive or related to the actual structure of the scales.