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Re: Please teach chromatic scales !

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-04-27 12:26

The fact that some students could muddle through a chromatic scale starting from C but couldn't manage from A# shows a serious lack of comprehension about the basic construction of scales, in general. I suspect these students learned their major and minor scales by rote, because if they understood the theory behind major and minor, the chromatic scale would come naturally: all the teacher would have to do is explain, "Move up and down only by half steps."

Piano instruction can help here, because the keyboard makes the relationships of whole steps to half steps so *visible* that even small children can understand the concept almost immediately. Also, the contruction of the piano fosters teaching of chromatic scales because the fingering for a chromatic run, common in piano music, is considerably different from the fingering for any other scales or runs and is easy even for kids with tiny hands. Any piano teacher who doesn't want to send students to recitals with ridiculous-looking fumble-fingers teaches that fingering during the first year or so. Without a piano, though, the teacher can still explain the basic theory of whole steps and half steps to anybody on any instrument, including the larynx.

Lelia
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