In the previous lesson i gave you an assignment to write down the tone names of some major scales. Now, i’m going to show you the correct answers and while i’m displaying the spreadsheet feel free to pause the video and check whether you got them right or wrong. If you have any errors make
In the previous lesson we have mastered the names of the white keys and i gave you a test which you were supposed to pass. It is important to master the names of the white keys first because the black keys have the same names as the white keys only we add up the words
A scale is a combination of 7 tones which repeat themselves in another octaves higher or lower. An octave simply means an interval (a space) between two tones with the same name. So far, in our previous lessons we were using only the C major and A minor scales. The C major scale
Ok, so we’ll start off by placing our right hand on the keyboard so that the thumb is resting on the middle C and we will place our left hand so that the pinky will be resting on the tone A this time, just so we can make the exercise more spicy, because playing
First of all i will remind you again to curve your fingers while they are resting on the keyboard. I’m not asking you to play with curved fingers but only to keep them curved while they are not in use. Because…look at my hand(pokazuvas), this is what happens when you strike a key, you are
It’s the same way when we go descending. We’ll start with the pinky and when we get to the thumb we cross our middle finger over the thumb and we have enough fingers to finish the scale. This is how it looks like without stopping. Now i will play it up and down. Notice how
So we’ll start off by placing our right hand on the keyboard with the fingers slightly curved like this, and we will be placing our hand on the keyboard so that every finger is resting on a particular white key, starting from the thumb on the tone C, all the way to the G with