Hey everyone, I'm Jazer, I play the piano. One of the common comments we get about scale practice
is that it's a little bit boring, it's a bit robotic and we're not really sure why we do
it. In this video, I'm going to share with you what I do to make scales less boring to practice
basically it's playing chords underneath the scales so let's work just in c major today
that means instead of doing something like this,
we'll do something like this instead.
There you go already sounds a little bit better, right? In this video, I'm going to teach you what
you just heard. Before we get into that make sure you like and subscribe to this channel
to stay in touch with more of these free piano lessons and tutorials. First, you're gonna need
to learn the left hand chords in this little scale song we're gonna use the chords A minor f
and c and that's it okay so let's repeat that again a minor f and the c
okay let's look at what the right hand is doing now. Let's
start with learning this first please observe
second part is
one more time
you already learned the left hand let me break down for you what was happening in
the right hand so you're gonna play the c major scale one octave up and down like this
down and then you're gonna go back up to the e
that was part one and then part two was almost the same thing up down
and this time ending on the c after you've given each hand some practice you should put
them together and it should sound something like this and when you come down, change the chords
second part is
let's repeat that again, a little bit faster
two, three, four
hope you're liking the general feel for this exercise now, it's a little less robotic
much more human and fun to practice. Once you mastered the previous exercise let's move
on now to playing the same thing but left hand why don't you try to do
them broken chords instead of blocked so instead of
now, I like you to do please
so break up the left hand chords
one more time
Very nice you've completed the one octave scale practice.
Let's now move on to trying some two octave variations
one more time
so as you saw the left hand chords were the same but let's look at what's happening in
the right hand this time. Now with the two octaves, it sounds something like this so
go all the way up come down skip the a and go to g okay so the last part over here looks like this
so you can go all the way up and when it comes down it's okay one more time it sounds like this
and the second part is like this
c instead of the previous g. So together it will sound like this
and just like the one octave scale before in the same way once you've mastered this
two octave ones move on then to the broken left hand so it sounds like that
make sure you give lots of practice to the one octave and also the two octave variations next
we're going to move on to some bonus challenges, this is for the people who have mastered the
exercises before and you just want something a little bit harder to challenge your brain and the
first bonus challenge is the left hand stretch so instead of doing the broken chord like this
you're not gonna do it's still the same notes but you're gonna play a e and play the c
all the way up here instead of this c here. So it'll sound for example like this
two octaves now
all right bonus challenge two is we're gonna do some descendings first
so going back to the basic left hand chords a descending first would sound something like this
and
and you can even do two octaves i'm gonna switch up the left hand as well so
I quite like this one sounds nice
bonus challenge 3 is some right hand arpeggios so you can do something like this
so there you go you can see in these bonus challenges there are some interesting ways
to vary it up but basically it's always the same principle of playing the right hand scales
and arpeggios and in the left hand you will play some chords underneath. I think practicing scales
in this way just makes it a little bit more human and a little bit more purposeful as well
because in the end when we're practicing scales the point is to make our music better and what
better way than to just marry your scales right away into your music playing that's all for this
video I hope you have a fun time practicing these scale songs and I'll catch you in the next video