Author: Ken Lagace
Date: 2019-04-26 18:24
kdk >> Agreed, certainly, but ... 15? What scales are there beyond the 12 (one for each note of the chromatic scale)?
There are 12 sets of fingerings but music theory says there are 15 major scales.
A 'western' scale has one alphabetic letter in each scale so there are 7 sharp scales and 7 flat scales, and the C scale.
Yes, the B and Cb scale, the C# and Db and the F#and Gb scales have the same fingerings, but they look different on the page.
And of course, The majors are just the beginning of a good foundation. There is the chromatic scale, the 3 minor scales, the whole tone scale, then arpeggios of all the above, and scales played in 3rds, 4ths, etc. etc. The more your fingers learn of these, the easier it is to play most of Western music.
In my teaching, after 'learning' a scale, I have players make up a different short melody every time and play it in all the scales. This teaches the fingers to 'feel' a scale like the "lizard brain" idea mentioned above.
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