![]() ![]() Both hands move up the octave as I say, 'The one chord, the two chord, three chord, four chord. ![]() My favorite way to talk about 'The Three Main Chords' is to play the regular scale slowly with a left-hand finger while making matching chords in the right hand. I try to keep reinforcing the concept by coming at it from different angles, such as playing using all major chords (the real version has one minor chord). The idea of the I, IV and V chords seems obvious to piano teachers who've been thinking that way for years, but the connections aren't at all apparent to some young students. Piano Scales - 12 major keys with standard fingering Author: Piano Street Subject DIGITAL PIANO SCORE Scales in all major keys. Of course, this becomes much harder in the later scales, when black notes enter the picture! In fact, once piano students have mastered parallel scales in one key, it becomes much easier to accomplish them in all 12 major scales, and we just go straight to parallel scales. You might also like this music theory cheat sheet. (And the page didn't look as nice with crowded fingering when I initially laid it out with parallel scales!) With the 1-octave scale, this is how I first approach hands together, so they can have the fun of achieving speed and coordination over the 'big stretch' even in the initial stages of learning where to tuck under and cross over. In fact most scales are really derived from the major scale, including the natural minor scale.
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