Major scale fingering

in Beginners,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 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 this lesson as you will need to know how to play scales when forming various major chords.

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Tagged as: fingerings, major scale fingering, playing fast

1 Amr: This is very helpful. Thank you
2 Tyree: This Was Geat. It Helps Me Out Alot Thankx
3 Evan: Hi.
thankx for giving me the first details of fingering.
God bless you and your team.
Evan
4 Ron: Hey Jermaine,

2 questions:

1) Why didn’t you guys include the fingering for going back down the scale? Am I to assume it’s always simply the forward fingering in reverse? That didn’t seem to work with a couple of them, like E flat for instance.

2. Should we practice doing the scales with both hands together, or separately? Or, master them separately then together?
Thanks,
Ron
5 Evan: Hi jermaine.
I am confused while trying to play 4 notes chords. Dont know which finger will go for the 4th note,specially with the sharps.
please guide me.
Thanks
Evan
6 Malcolm: very helpful its kinda easy…i actually figured it out. Wow!!! Thanks alot
7 robert skyers: this is my comment, i have already been through the major scales, but dicide to look back at this lesson for revisions, to my knowledge of major scales, the fingering you gave for the scales are indeed correct,before writing this comment i took the time to check,… carefully… on the fingering of the scales and found them to be in the correct order given internationally…,to up coming musicican, please let us check our notes carefully when given,

TO TEACHER JERMAINE,
KEEP ON IMPARTING MUSIC, ITS SO VITAL FOR THE SOUL
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I am very happy, I am learning the scales now, and I am grateful that you teach me.
Christian
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14 Michael: I love the fingering chart!

I learned my scales by reading sheet music with the finger numbers below each note, and it was awful. So much easier to just look at a chart and say, “Oh, okay, Gb is 2-3-4-1-2-3-1-2.” I don’t know why the other way is so much harder, but it is.

To any beginners – I strongly urge you to use Jermaine’s method to learn the major scales and the correct fingering. It will save you hundreds of hours of heartache.
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