Double Note Scales (Part 6/7)
14/11/09 15:19 Filed in: The Piano
In case you missed it, please check out my post on major seconds.
If you work on all these exercises, hopefully by this time your fingering-intuition is getting better. Your muscles just know where your fingers go even though you haven’t worked out anything specific. They just feel it. That’s great. That’s where you want to be.
The next two posts deal with some interesting exercises that make double-note scales more practical. First, is using the fingering from double-note scales to create interesting single-note patterns. For example, minor thirds:
And major seconds:
Be sure to check out the other intervals too! You’ll find patters like these are easier and easier to learn and apply to your playing:
A bop scale:
A diminished scale pattern:
Another diminished scale pattern:
There are countless others, but hopefully this gives you some ideas! And if you check out all these chromatic fingerings, you’ll be playing these like they’re nothing. Trust me!
Stay tuned for Part 7!
If you work on all these exercises, hopefully by this time your fingering-intuition is getting better. Your muscles just know where your fingers go even though you haven’t worked out anything specific. They just feel it. That’s great. That’s where you want to be.
The next two posts deal with some interesting exercises that make double-note scales more practical. First, is using the fingering from double-note scales to create interesting single-note patterns. For example, minor thirds:
And major seconds:
Be sure to check out the other intervals too! You’ll find patters like these are easier and easier to learn and apply to your playing:
A bop scale:
A diminished scale pattern:
Another diminished scale pattern:
There are countless others, but hopefully this gives you some ideas! And if you check out all these chromatic fingerings, you’ll be playing these like they’re nothing. Trust me!
Stay tuned for Part 7!