How to Play a Written C Scale on Piano

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Now we are going to show you the written pattern in C major, if we look up over here we have it written down. We have C right here and as we go up, we go "C, D, E, F,G, A, B, etc. etc. But we are really paying attention to the numbers we got, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, then "C" starts here again, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, so when we have sharps or flats, we just notate it in there and then we get all the notes grammatically by changing around this note. So what you are really reading is the "C- major scale" written out on the staph. So all the notes on here are within that staph. Now if you take a look at another one, it will help reiterate what I am saying. See notice how this is how this our "D-flat major scale" so now we have five flats, so we are playing in this completely different pattern which has all these black notes in there, but it still looks exactly the same, because we are just reading in that pattern, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, etc, etc. So by getting this pattern down and knowing where "C" is and knowing where the three is and the five and the six and the more you do it the more you get use to it. It makes life that much easier and it takes all the extra things like "Note Values" and "what note is this?" and is this in "F" or is this in "F-sharp" and all that and it just kind of throws it out the window. It makes life a breeze.

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