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“Minor and Blues Scales” Crash Course

As we’ve learned in other posts… Scales are important! If you know your scales, playing chords will be very very easy to do! The Minor Scale If you remember, the major scale pattern is: W-W-H-W-W-W-H Now, to add another “scale” to your musical toolbox, the minor scale pattern is simply: W – H – W […]

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Major scale fingering

The "Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear" course covers everything from the basics and fundamentals to Cmin13 (b9b5) chords. The following lesson focuses on chapter four from the course. If you are already familiar with major scale fingerings, you may skip this lesson. Fingerings for major scales (02) Note: Please pay attention to […]

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Major Scales Crash Course

If someone asked you, “what is a scale?” … would you be able to answer them? Scales are important. They are the basis of melodies and chords. Without knowing your scales, you are a car mechanic without his tools. What are scales? A good way to define a scale is to list the following characteristics: […]

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Learning to play natural minor scales

The "Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear" course covers everything from the basics and fundamentals to Cmin13 (b9b5) chords. The following lesson focuses on chapter seven from the course. If you are already familiar with how to play natural minor scales, you may skip this lesson. Learning to play natural minor scales (04) Note: […]

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The key to learning major scales

The key to learning major scales (01) Note: Please pay attention to this lesson as you will need to know how to play scales when forming various major chords. Get the rest of this lesson by clicking here Note: Disregard the "SLXYZ" numbers (if any) as they refer to sound examples. Our 300-pg […]

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