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Re: Sharps and flats

Author: tims
Date: 2014-10-23 20:55

This is why we do scale studies. My favorite is Baermann book 3. You work on these by key, not by exercise. Pick a key and work through the whole book. Don't start with the easiest keys. Work backward from the harder keys.

Another technique is to pick a reasonably simple and short tune that you can easily memorize, then try playing it all keys without having to write it out. As you get better at this, work to longer and more difficult tunes. Its a little tricky with the minor keys, but you can work on them separately using a tune that is in a minor key to begin with. Pianists do this all the time, and if you play professional back up for vocalists, you are expected to be able to do this on any piece of music they throw in front of you. This is technically transposition skill, but it results in the same skill of mastering keys.

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