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How to Play the C Major Scale on Piano

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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play the C major scale on the piano with expert instruction from a professional jazz composer in this free video clip on music theory and piano techniques.

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How to Play the C Major Scale on Piano

Now, we're going to take a visual look at our C major scale if we look at the keyboard, we start here C, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C but again we reading in pattern. So, if you have a melody like 3-3-3, 3-3-3, 3-5-1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2, 6-7-1, 5-6-5, flat 3, 4, sharp 4, 5, sharp 5, 6, 3, flat 3, 2. So by using this one scale, we can read all the notes on the staff and get them under our fingers rather quickly and it will help us to associate these patterns. So when we go into key like E flat, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7, we can do the same thing, 3-3-3, 3, 3, 3-5-1-2, 3-4-5-4-3-2-1, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, sharp 4, 5, 1. So, we're taking this simple pattern and we're getting it under our fingers.

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