How to Play Scale Patterns on the Piano

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Hi, welcome back to ExpertVillage.com. My name is Hope Wells and we are here at the California Music Academy which you can check out at californiamusicacademy.com to find out what's going on. I would like to talk about -- we're talking about what to do when your students are getting it; what to do when they are getting it, when they know what's going on. Let's talk about what to do with their scales. Scales are pretty important. You've already introduced what a scale is, what it sounds like, you've already introduced how to play it. Couple of things you can do to get it faster. One -- let's put it into different rhythms, so we have one, two and three and four and one, two and three and four and one -- guess I should be looking at the piano, shouldn't I...worried about singing. So you have that rhythm. What if you change that rhythm just slightly? One and two, three and four and one and two, three and four and one. You might have noticed that what I did was I just changed the beat that held. In each case there's a beat that gets a quarter note and there's a beat, the rest of them get eighth notes. So, I put it on one, I put the quarter note on two, it can be done on three or four. Let's see if you can get your students to go even faster by putting them all on eighth notes. So, it's going to go one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and; there they need to repeat the top note. A harder way to do it is to see if they can hear triplets. This may be the first time they've ever heard of triplets before but it sounds like one and uh two and uh three and uh hold, one, two, three, hold -- something like that. And then you may notice that the next one is going to be even faster with sixteenth notes. But it's your job and your creativity to give them different rhythms to play those scales on.

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