How did you go with these scale exercises? 😊 0:00 Intro 00:13 Playing Chords Underneath 00:59 Level One - 1 Octave Scale 03:47 Level Two - 2 Octave Scale 05:54 Bonus Challenge 1 - LH Stretch 06:30 Bonus Challenge 2 - Descending First 07:19 Bonus Challenge 3 - RH Arpeggios
After watching this video several times, I tried it, and it caused a breakthrough in my understanding of chords. I had decided to learn scales and become familiar with playing in the keys of C, G, F, and D. So I played the pretty C scale, and then I thought, let me try G. But the chords did not fit, and the thought came, what is the chord that corresponds to A minor in the key of G? Lightening Flash!!! It's the same relationship to the tone tone semitone positions as in C. Ohhhhh that's why they have names for all the intervals. So to prove it to myself, I looked up what the names of the chords were (in my Alfred's) for what you played, A minor-F-C, and found they were vi, IV, and 1. Major breakthrough! no pun intended. I'm going to be 79 on my next birthday, and although I came from a very musical family, and played a little guitar in college, I became a doctor and just started getting serious about learning piano recently in my retirement. I don't know how long I have to live, but I don't want to get to 95 and wish I had studied and practiced more. You are a wonderful teacher! Thank you for your lessons!!
As an intermediate pianist, I thought this exercise would be so easy! But, wow, not at all. Transposing the exercise into different keys, figuring out the level 3&4 chords for that scale, coordinating the fingering in both hands (scales and arpeggios) is a challenging brain exercise for me. I am going to use this as my daily warm-up, focusing on a different key each day. I will play the scale my usual way, and then follow up with your "fun" way. While I was practicing this today, my husband walked in and said, "That's a beautiful piece." LOL
Agreed! I’ve been playing guitar for years, but recently broke my foot and it of work so I thought this would be the perfect two months to really start grinding away at the piano. The arpeggio with the left hand even at 60bpm and right hand in double was way over my skill level. This is going to be “fun”!
Combining learning with having fun always gives the best results :) Your channel and the way you teach was an inspiration for creating my own channel with piano lessons. Thank you!
learning skills at the cost of enjoyment, only gets you as far as need be for skills. Learning by enjoying at the cost of skill, only gets you as far as you can enjoy. Learning both in balance lets you progress, and enjoy the progression. One of the smartest things I saw from family guy is when Peter 'mastered' violin with a Fletcher like teacher, for a specific purpose, then snapped it right after.
My God! This is so interesting and fabulous as with a little patience it sounds like real music! Fantastic. Love your methods as I'm a beginner at 78 years!
I’m a total noob, day three of teaching myself the piano and this was super helpful! Still on the basic pattern you showed at the start but enjoying the challenge and the sense of progression I’m seeing. Thanks!
@@fawcue5844 not bad! Managed to learn the basic melody for auld lang sine and performed a duet with my wife on harmonica for New Year’s Eve, that was sort of a breakthrough moment for me going from practice drills to actually learning/performing a song. Went on to learn fur elise and now working on midnight sonata, the classic first songs. So yeah, still really enjoying it and excited for what’s to come!
Wow. Surreal. Yesterday was my Day 3, of teaching myself! I learned the video where he teaches “All of Me” by John Legend. I think it must be a stripped back version but I learned it and now can play with my eyes closed in just one night! I am ecstatic! 😅 Tonight, I picked this one as I really want to understand what I’m doing, not just copy learning songs, if that makes sense! I’m finding it hard to do the little skip up the keys! Can’t figure out if he uses his thumb to skip to the E or his middle. Thumb makes sense to me but I want to get it right soooo badly! 😂 I hope you’re still playing 😊
I just bought a piano last week. Seems like the timing couldn't have been better - your tutorials have already been a huge help, and they just keep coming!
You should definitely do more on this topic. I think a lot of pianists would really benefit to having this and practicing scales with more musicality. Do you know of any etudes by famous composers sort of like the examples you gave?
Bro, this scales sounded so beautiful, it hit my soul. I never found learning piano such fun and pleasure. The sound is literally make me wanna cry, i dunno why? Thank you
I am just a beginner but I look forward to doing this soon! It sounds so beautiful! Thank you Jazer! You are such a great teacher and have such a big heart to teach all these for free!
Literally just thought “I should practice the scales more” this morning then this pops up for me. Your videos are always spot on! As a semi-beginner pianist I thank you >:3
I've been refreshing my piano skills after 15 years of not playing and you've been a tremendous help. I am so happy to be playing again and can't thank you enough for your valuable lessons. I wish I could give more. Thank you so much!
Just discovered your channel and wanted to thank you. This is a GREAT approach to practicing scales. Started out following your guidelines, but it is SO easy to improvise on this, and it actually spurs you to be creative. Example: started with your chord progression and then varied it slightly to C-G-Am-Fm which inevitably led to playing Pachelbel's Canon (ending with Em). And also continuously varying up the patterns, even trying broken chords/arpeggios in the right hand while playing scales in left (found that to be harder). All in all a wonderful exercise. Thanks so much, and you've got a new subscriber!
Firstly, I have to say your channel is an incredible breath of fresh air, which thankfully isn't just full of hot air. You keep the viewer engaged by keeping everything concise, lots of playing and simple to follow instructions. Most other channels this video would be 3 or 4 times the length and by the end of the video the viewer will have well and truly switched off. Secondly, as a record producer (I have had a UK No.4 and worked on 4 UK No.1's) my piano playing is woeful at best. I used to play when I was a kid, but then stopped when I found beer and women, and then when I sat back down again at a piano my mind had forgotten everything. I was sitting at the piano urging myself to play again, but nothing, just a blank brain. I often wake up and wonder if during my sleep my mind has suddenly found the lost years of piano, in a section of my brain flooded with alcohol, but sadly it's not been the case. Finding your channel has given me the desire to sit back down at the piano and find those lost years again. A wonderful channel that has inspired me to get back at it. It has also inspired my two children to start playing, so from the 3 of us, thanks :-)
Thank you very much!!! These exercises makes scales enjoyble!!! I normally practice 1 major and its minors every day... this will definitely see me doing more now... very nice...
I wish you would give more tools to help us transfer this to other scales, for exemple say that we should go back up to the 3rd degree of the scale for the first exercise, and use semi functional harmony for the chords. As for right now they seem picked out of the blue and most people might struggle finding their equivalent to other scales.
LH chords are this pattern: vi (minor 6th), IV (major 4th), I (root). For example, to play the D scale, the LH chords will be: Bm, G, D. You can find this chart of scale chords anywhere online. Have fun!
Doing the brain work helps people REALLY learn. There is nothing insurmountably difficult about working out the key and chord changes: for D major go up a full tone (or two half steps) from C. That is not rocket science. 😃
@@wayfarer1101 just transposing it like this is not making people think 😅 If anything it will make them more tied to the C scale which is already a big problem going on
Love this practice sooooo much! It really makes practicing scales way more interesting😍 But I am wondering if there is some scale practice for the left hand, with right hand playing chords like this video do, because I tried to play chords with my right hand in the high note area and left hand playing scale in the lower part, but it doesn’t sound as charming as the other way around😢
I find that when the left hand plays scales, the sound is more dramatic. It’s like the rising tension of video game battle theme music (check out the rising F minor scale in the bass of “Those Who Fight” or “Let the Battles Begin” both by Nobuo Uematsu of Final Fantasy VII). The left hand could add tension with staccato(sharp) ostinato(repeating) tonic chords, like FCF in the RH (fast paced) while the LH dramatically creeps up an F scale.
I've been teaching piano for over 40 years. Thank you so much for sharing your creative ideas that help students want to practice the fundamentals of piano!
Thanks for sharing! This is the first time I've looked forward to practising scales because they sound great. This is motivating and encouraging. Thank you.
I am practicing this exercise. It is helping me learn to coordinate my two hands doing separate movements. I am hoping to try this with the other scales also.
Best practice idea I've found so far on the internet, I don't think I am gonna search any further, brilliant Jazer, thanks so much. cheers from Vancouver, Canad. 😀
Excellent! All your videos are EXCELLENT! I discover them with a lot a pleasure and it helps me a lot. I am French and your way of talking is absolutely clear, and when it is a little fast for me I stop and read the subtitles. SUPER! So THINK YOU VERY MUCH Jazer!
Thank you Jazzer! This is excellent. Making practicing scales musically interesting is a great idea. This also teaches hand independence for those of us who are newbies and struggling with that.
Looks like so much fun! I will definitely try this in my practice! Moreover I read a few comments that gave great ideas how to add to this, practicing in all different scales and trying the scale on the left hand while playing chords on the right! Can't wait to get back to my piano! Thanks Jazer for your great videos, there's always so much value in them!
Using the left hand to accentuate/enhance the scale being played by the right is a great way to create a wonderful sound which, as you intended, makes working to master the basic scales enjoyable. Great idea. Thank you
Have you ever thought of writing an exercise book? I’m going to try this on harp but sometimes they don’t translate well. This does though. Except we don’t use the 5 finger. It is too weak for harp and can cause muscle damage. So we get to 4 and do our cross overs/unders. When you begin using accidentals then that introduces lever or pedal changes for us and they often need to be modified (especially for lever harp) because we need our left hand to change levers between notes. I’m always looking for ways to increase speed and agility. I have a question for you though. Being a musician who had previously used only treble clef (for flute) when I switched over to harp I needed to learn bass clef. And not only that but learning to read two lines of music at the same time. Then also looking at my hand placement which I never had to do (and would be impossible to do on flute) this adds a third challenge for my eyes! I used an app to teach myself bass clef and those notes would fire faster and faster. I learned it pretty fluently in a couple of days. But I have been writing in the bass clef notes on my music in order to learn my music more smoothly. When I’m reading two lines then the hesitation on the bass line sets in, hence my reason for writing them in. I have gradually been dropping notes that are written in, like my chords, I write in only the first note. I use color coding for 1-5-8 interval patterns and 1-5-8-9-10 patterns with highlighter. It is a system that has been working for me, and I am recognizing chord patterns faster and faster at a glance. I never played chords before with flute so it is a challenging transition. What would you tell a student that does this? Is it wrong? I wish I could post a pic of what my music looks like. If you feel this is a bad habit can you tell me what you would have taught me to do if I were your piano student?
I am just getting back to the piano after a multi-decade absence. Playing scales this way is so beautiful and making me feel a lot more accomplished than I would otherwise. My Mom would never have had to ask me to practice if my teacher had taught me this method. Thank you so much!
Thank you Jazer! I've been self-taught for quite a few years and my greatest problem is sight reading. It's fine on cello, sax and flute (one note at a time), but piano is my first love, and I've always had to memorise the music before I can play confidently. I'm now hoping this exercise will get me out of my comfort zone a bit (I only need to memorise 3 chords) and it sounds lovely too.
After playing piano for so many years finally I found a fresh start, thank you! Of course I still love my previous piano teachers who taught me scales 😊
well I have been looking for ways to practice scales. and wow!!!!! i love this. It makes want to practice the scales because I want it to sound like I am making progress. Wish I saw this sooner. Thank you so much!
Hiii jazer u are the best piano teacher I’ve ever seen I wanted the i cant Play with 2 hands but its been 4 months still u didn’t publish part 3 i hope u publish it it helped me alllllot pls post the video that wss the first vid i saw of yours and immediately subscribed u
I love that chord progression for these improvisations, you could probably take it a few steps further as well to give it an even fuller sound. Too bad my improvisation skills are not optimal to attempt it on my own.
Returning after 20 year break so you can imagine the fatigue and frustration. Level 8 back then to very little menory is saddening but this will transform and revive my interest to practice the fundamentals.. thank you
That's a great trick/lesson. I've pretty much got the hang of the C scale now (with right hand) so playing it with left hand chords will be an interesting challenge. I like how the first time through it leaves it hanging by ending on the E and the second time resolving on the C. Nice.
🔥 love how the major-seven leading-tone (B), over the subdominant chord (FAC), effectively creates a rootless G⁹/F (guidetones BF) …or at least: this vi-IV-I creates tonality-tension-release… with the IV ⁽ᵃᵈᵈ#¹¹⁾ (FAC+B) tritone substituting for the V⁹ (FAGB or GBDFA) chord like a ii-V⁷-I 😎💫
Nice one! Thanks! This also a nice move towards improvisation. It could help classical musicians, who would like to improvise- but are "afraid" to do so- on their way. Randomly changing the direction of the right hand (doing the explained exercise) doesen't sound bad-and this already is a simple improvisation. Leaving gaps helps the beginner of this kind of playing to forming short Phrasen. Once comfotable with this, one could move towards playing freely over chord progressions found in pop or simple jazz tunes. Moving towards jazz will require more scales, but the church modes hidden in the plain major scale are a start. Next, one could try the the modes of the altered minor scales. Next could be all the other more exotic construced scales you find in jazz music. A really really nice channel called New Jazz Channel by Oliver Pren takes you from pentatonics to stacked pentatonics or stacked blues scales (which can also be used improvising over commonly chord progressions in pop or gospel music. This way of using pentatonic scales also cover all the church modes of the major scale). I'm looking forward to check out the rest of your videos... Thanks for putting this on YT!
You are a great pianist. You teach your utube videos honestly. Show your finger moments very slowly, so we can at least have an interest to start learning. Wishing you the best of the best Sir. ✨✨✨ 🙏🙏🙏
Huuuuuu thank yoooou!!!!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 I been playing for 2 years but because learning scales is so boring I couldn’t process and been exploring ways to make it fun thank you a toooon 🥺🥺🥺🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I posted a link to a MuseScore file for this today in a comment on this page that can be transposed to any key if needed. MuseScore is open source, 100% free software, and the file I created is likewise completely free (no charge, and no copyright)
So cool!. I cannot take it to that level of beatifulness yet :-) but I do that sort of thing to anything I practice so I dont get bored (Altering Hanon excersises or making my own up) Thank you for this demonstration. Very beautiful.
I've been practicing piano for a little less than 18 years, about 17 years and 50 weeks less. This looks like a great way to spice up the next several years. Merci.
Great idea! Makes the scale sound like a contemporary pop ballad and this goes very well with young students, who might call it quits when you throw too much theory and exercises at them (both are extremely important, but also very hard). Thanks for this!
Hey bud I love your videos, you are a fab teacher. Thank you so much for your efforts in helping not just me but thousands of other people like me. Thank you so much
How did you go with these scale exercises? 😊
0:00 Intro
00:13 Playing Chords Underneath
00:59 Level One - 1 Octave Scale
03:47 Level Two - 2 Octave Scale
05:54 Bonus Challenge 1 - LH Stretch
06:30 Bonus Challenge 2 - Descending First
07:19 Bonus Challenge 3 - RH Arpeggios
Eh.
Thanks a ton 🥰🙏🏻🙏🏻
Do you have a music sheet I can purchase? Find it hard to keep pausing.
@@sauceadelman6112 I put a link to sheet music in a comment on this page.
You play so gracefully and that really helps me I find scales boring!
After watching this video several times, I tried it, and it caused a breakthrough in my understanding of chords. I had decided to learn scales and become familiar with playing in the keys of C, G, F, and D. So I played the pretty C scale, and then I thought, let me try G. But the chords did not fit, and the thought came, what is the chord that corresponds to A minor in the key of G? Lightening Flash!!! It's the same relationship to the tone tone semitone positions as in C. Ohhhhh that's why they have names for all the intervals. So to prove it to myself, I looked up what the names of the chords were (in my Alfred's) for what you played, A minor-F-C, and found they were vi, IV, and 1. Major breakthrough! no pun intended. I'm going to be 79 on my next birthday, and although I came from a very musical family, and played a little guitar in college, I became a doctor and just started getting serious about learning piano recently in my retirement. I don't know how long I have to live, but I don't want to get to 95 and wish I had studied and practiced more. You are a wonderful teacher! Thank you for your lessons!!
As an intermediate pianist, I thought this exercise would be so easy! But, wow, not at all. Transposing the exercise into different keys, figuring out the level 3&4 chords for that scale, coordinating the fingering in both hands (scales and arpeggios) is a challenging brain exercise for me. I am going to use this as my daily warm-up, focusing on a different key each day. I will play the scale my usual way, and then follow up with your "fun" way. While I was practicing this today, my husband walked in and said, "That's a beautiful piece." LOL
Agreed! I’ve been playing guitar for years, but recently broke my foot and it of work so I thought this would be the perfect two months to really start grinding away at the piano. The arpeggio with the left hand even at 60bpm and right hand in double was way over my skill level. This is going to be “fun”!
Beautiful exercise to develop interest in piano playing n beautifully explained also.Tnx
That’s when you pull the “oh that’s just my warm up” card haha
Hmm so what am i if this is easy. Can’t really read chords tho
Combining learning with having fun always gives the best results :) Your channel and the way you teach was an inspiration for creating my own channel with piano lessons. Thank you!
Wise words!!
True!
learning skills at the cost of enjoyment, only gets you as far as need be for skills.
Learning by enjoying at the cost of skill, only gets you as far as you can enjoy.
Learning both in balance lets you progress, and enjoy the progression.
One of the smartest things I saw from family guy is when Peter 'mastered' violin with a Fletcher like teacher, for a specific purpose, then snapped it right after.
infact. I would be more scared of Mr. Washee Washee as my teacher than Terrance Fletcher.
I love Jazer's piano lessons on UA-cam. He makes every lesson so simple and easy to follow. I am learning a lot from him. Thank you Jazer!
My God! This is so interesting and fabulous as with a little patience it sounds like real music! Fantastic. Love your methods as I'm a beginner at 78 years!
I actually find playing scales soothing. I'll try this in the afternoon. Thanks for the videos. 🙂
I enjoy scales, too. I'm not very good at them yet, but this looks like a fun way to challenge myself.
I’m a total noob, day three of teaching myself the piano and this was super helpful! Still on the basic pattern you showed at the start but enjoying the challenge and the sense of progression I’m seeing. Thanks!
2 months in, how's it going?
@@fawcue5844 not bad! Managed to learn the basic melody for auld lang sine and performed a duet with my wife on harmonica for New Year’s Eve, that was sort of a breakthrough moment for me going from practice drills to actually learning/performing a song. Went on to learn fur elise and now working on midnight sonata, the classic first songs. So yeah, still really enjoying it and excited for what’s to come!
Wow. Surreal. Yesterday was my Day 3, of teaching myself!
I learned the video where he teaches “All of Me” by John Legend.
I think it must be a stripped back version but I learned it and now can play with my eyes closed in just one night! I am ecstatic! 😅
Tonight, I picked this one as I really want to understand what I’m doing, not just copy learning songs, if that makes sense!
I’m finding it hard to do the little skip up the keys! Can’t figure out if he uses his thumb to skip to the E or his middle. Thumb makes sense to me but I want to get it right soooo badly! 😂
I hope you’re still playing 😊
What a great sounding way to practice scales with pleasing harmonies. Thank you Jazer.
I just bought a piano last week. Seems like the timing couldn't have been better - your tutorials have already been a huge help, and they just keep coming!
Oh how nice for you. I hope you are loving it
@@deadmanswife3625 Absolutely! Excited to be at the beginning of a lifetime of learning & discovery for me and my family.
Wow congratulations! So a whole new world will open up for you
SizeNZ, may I ask you what you acquired? You do not need to answer if you prefer not to. Thank you! Best regards.
@@gothamelliott It's a Kawai ES110
You should definitely do more on this topic. I think a lot of pianists would really benefit to having this and practicing scales with more musicality. Do you know of any etudes by famous composers sort of like the examples you gave?
If you are looking for pieces with lots of scales mozart piano concertos will help.
Js Bach
Love this challenge, and sounds so beautiful. Keep these coming! Hands down…..the BEST. No fluff, just straight piano. Thank you.
Bro, this scales sounded so beautiful, it hit my soul. I never found learning piano such fun and pleasure. The sound is literally make me wanna cry, i dunno why? Thank you
Out of the many online piano classes I've watched so far, this is my favorite one so far. Very well done! Thank you.
That sounds lovely. A nice way to learn scales while also practicing chords.
I am just a beginner but I look forward to doing this soon! It sounds so beautiful! Thank you Jazer! You are such a great teacher and have such a big heart to teach all these for free!
Literally just thought “I should practice the scales more” this morning then this pops up for me. Your videos are always spot on! As a semi-beginner pianist I thank you >:3
Great for you 🎹🙌🏻 I'm thinking about practicing that for long too..
I've been refreshing my piano skills after 15 years of not playing and you've been a tremendous help. I am so happy to be playing again and can't thank you enough for your valuable lessons. I wish I could give more. Thank you so much!
You've given more than enough! I am so happy my tutorials and tips have been of help. Keep practising!
Nice. This has enhanced my piano playing. Thanks. 😉
Dude! making the world a better place one video at a time! Thanks for sharing :)
Just discovered your channel and wanted to thank you. This is a GREAT approach to practicing scales. Started out following your guidelines, but it is SO easy to improvise on this, and it actually spurs you to be creative. Example: started with your chord progression and then varied it slightly to C-G-Am-Fm which inevitably led to playing Pachelbel's Canon (ending with Em). And also continuously varying up the patterns, even trying broken chords/arpeggios in the right hand while playing scales in left (found that to be harder). All in all a wonderful exercise. Thanks so much, and you've got a new subscriber!
This is so good! Its like learning scales, chords, and arpeggios at the same time. Very nice!
love it! a really nice motivation for scale exercises (which tend to be boring). not anymore!
it would be awesome if you provided sheets with these videos.
Thank you for your work.
Firstly, I have to say your channel is an incredible breath of fresh air, which thankfully isn't just full of hot air. You keep the viewer engaged by keeping everything concise, lots of playing and simple to follow instructions. Most other channels this video would be 3 or 4 times the length and by the end of the video the viewer will have well and truly switched off.
Secondly, as a record producer (I have had a UK No.4 and worked on 4 UK No.1's) my piano playing is woeful at best. I used to play when I was a kid, but then stopped when I found beer and women, and then when I sat back down again at a piano my mind had forgotten everything. I was sitting at the piano urging myself to play again, but nothing, just a blank brain. I often wake up and wonder if during my sleep my mind has suddenly found the lost years of piano, in a section of my brain flooded with alcohol, but sadly it's not been the case.
Finding your channel has given me the desire to sit back down at the piano and find those lost years again.
A wonderful channel that has inspired me to get back at it.
It has also inspired my two children to start playing, so from the 3 of us, thanks :-)
These are truly inspirational words, Matthew. Thank you, 🤓
lovely exercise thanks scales and cords
This is amazing! (As always!!) Another exercise to add in the list! Thank you for always making practices interesting!
Thank you very much!!! These exercises makes scales enjoyble!!! I normally practice 1 major and its minors every day... this will definitely see me doing more now... very nice...
I wish you would give more tools to help us transfer this to other scales, for exemple say that we should go back up to the 3rd degree of the scale for the first exercise, and use semi functional harmony for the chords. As for right now they seem picked out of the blue and most people might struggle finding their equivalent to other scales.
It’s not hard to find actually
@@connorsmith2665 I know it's just some constructive criticism that could help and save time to the beginners
LH chords are this pattern: vi (minor 6th), IV (major 4th), I (root). For example, to play the D scale, the LH chords will be: Bm, G, D. You can find this chart of scale chords anywhere online. Have fun!
Doing the brain work helps people REALLY learn. There is nothing insurmountably difficult about working out the key and chord changes: for D major go up a full tone (or two half steps) from C. That is not rocket science. 😃
@@wayfarer1101 just transposing it like this is not making people think 😅
If anything it will make them more tied to the C scale which is already a big problem going on
Love this practice sooooo much! It really makes practicing scales way more interesting😍 But I am wondering if there is some scale practice for the left hand, with right hand playing chords like this video do, because I tried to play chords with my right hand in the high note area and left hand playing scale in the lower part, but it doesn’t sound as charming as the other way around😢
I find that when the left hand plays scales, the sound is more dramatic. It’s like the rising tension of video game battle theme music (check out the rising F minor scale in the bass of “Those Who Fight” or “Let the Battles Begin” both by Nobuo Uematsu of Final Fantasy VII). The left hand could add tension with staccato(sharp) ostinato(repeating) tonic chords, like FCF in the RH (fast paced) while the LH dramatically creeps up an F scale.
可以彈徹爾尼為左手的24首練習曲，我覺得普遍都很好聽！很多時候是左手彈音階右手彈和弦，總之左手通常都比較忙。UA-cam上有別人錄好的，可以找來聽聽看。
I've been teaching piano for over 40 years. Thank you so much for sharing your creative ideas that help students want to practice the fundamentals of piano!
You're very welcome!
Thanks for sharing! This is the first time I've looked forward to practising scales because they sound great. This is motivating and encouraging. Thank you.
I am practicing this exercise. It is helping me learn to coordinate my two hands doing separate movements. I am hoping to try this with the other scales also.
Your tips and tricks are absolutely the best 👌🏼
Absolutely brilliant exercise which sounds wonderful. Thanks!
wow, I like this trick, it sounds fun, I will do it for my practice scales -thank you for teaching us for free :)
Excellent way to play thank you
Best practice idea I've found so far on the internet, I don't think I am gonna search any further, brilliant Jazer, thanks so much. cheers from Vancouver, Canad. 😀
Thank you so much for breaking the exercises to make easy for the learners. God bless you.
Excellent! All your videos are EXCELLENT! I discover them with a lot a pleasure and it helps me a lot. I am French and your way of talking is absolutely clear, and when it is a little fast for me I stop and read the subtitles. SUPER! So THINK YOU VERY MUCH Jazer!
Thank you Jazzer! This is excellent. Making practicing scales musically interesting is a great idea. This also teaches hand independence for those of us who are newbies and struggling with that.
Looks like so much fun! I will definitely try this in my practice! Moreover I read a few comments that gave great ideas how to add to this, practicing in all different scales and trying the scale on the left hand while playing chords on the right! Can't wait to get back to my piano! Thanks Jazer for your great videos, there's always so much value in them!
Yet another brilliant tutorial from Jazer ☺
Using the left hand to accentuate/enhance the scale being played by the right is a great way to create a wonderful sound which, as you intended, makes working to master the basic scales enjoyable. Great idea. Thank you
ive been looking for fun /challenging way to practice and this video hits the spot thank you so much for this.
it looks so cute when you end your scales in the right hand with a vibrato
Have you ever thought of writing an exercise book? I’m going to try this on harp but sometimes they don’t translate well. This does though. Except we don’t use the 5 finger. It is too weak for harp and can cause muscle damage. So we get to 4 and do our cross overs/unders. When you begin using accidentals then that introduces lever or pedal changes for us and they often need to be modified (especially for lever harp) because we need our left hand to change levers between notes. I’m always looking for ways to increase speed and agility.
I have a question for you though. Being a musician who had previously used only treble clef (for flute) when I switched over to harp I needed to learn bass clef. And not only that but learning to read two lines of music at the same time. Then also looking at my hand placement which I never had to do (and would be impossible to do on flute) this adds a third challenge for my eyes! I used an app to teach myself bass clef and those notes would fire faster and faster. I learned it pretty fluently in a couple of days. But I have been writing in the bass clef notes on my music in order to learn my music more smoothly. When I’m reading two lines then the hesitation on the bass line sets in, hence my reason for writing them in. I have gradually been dropping notes that are written in, like my chords, I write in only the first note. I use color coding for 1-5-8 interval patterns and 1-5-8-9-10 patterns with highlighter. It is a system that has been working for me, and I am recognizing chord patterns faster and faster at a glance. I never played chords before with flute so it is a challenging transition. What would you tell a student that does this? Is it wrong? I wish I could post a pic of what my music looks like. If you feel this is a bad habit can you tell me what you would have taught me to do if I were your piano student?
I am just getting back to the piano after a multi-decade absence. Playing scales this way is so beautiful and making me feel a lot more accomplished than I would otherwise. My Mom would never have had to ask me to practice if my teacher had taught me this method. Thank you so much!
I can't wait to try it, it's very interesting, I'm excited to practice 🎹🎹🌹🌹👌🏻👌🏻
Making scales sound musical, you're doing good work!
It is fun watching you play I would like to learn it!
I'm so amazed how this tickles my brain😁 going to keep trying till i get this! Thank you do much
Amazing! What great exercises. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm watching this again. You're a brilliant and very musical teacher.
Thank you Jazer! I've been self-taught for quite a few years and my greatest problem is sight reading. It's fine on cello, sax and flute (one note at a time), but piano is my first love, and I've always had to memorise the music before I can play confidently. I'm now hoping this exercise will get me out of my comfort zone a bit (I only need to memorise 3 chords) and it sounds lovely too.
Beautiful sound from the piano, would listen to the chords, melodies, echoing, slow melodies
After playing piano for so many years finally I found a fresh start, thank you!
Of course I still love my previous piano teachers who taught me scales 😊
Excellent idea 🙏 it makes practice interesting
well I have been looking for ways to practice scales. and wow!!!!! i love this. It makes want to practice the scales because I want it to sound like I am making progress. Wish I saw this sooner. Thank you so much!
You are an aaaamazing teacher!
Mr.Jazer you are a real genius and thanks for imparting new skills in scales. Very informative and useful.GOD BLESS YOU 🌹🌹❤️
Hiii jazer u are the best piano teacher I’ve ever seen I wanted the i cant Play with 2 hands but its been 4 months still u didn’t publish part 3 i hope u publish it it helped me alllllot pls post the video that wss the first vid i saw of yours and immediately subscribed u
Yea they are right i also want the same
I love that chord progression for these improvisations, you could probably take it a few steps further as well to give it an even fuller sound. Too bad my improvisation skills are not optimal to attempt it on my own.
I'm so doing this tomorrow morning.. Thanks Jazer
Brilliant - I have been using YT piano vids for three years and this one is a real breakthrough...
I'll practice this so much my first album will be titled "Scales!"
I will try this after many days without playing. I guess it will be a good warm-up for trying new stuff. Thanks Jazer!
Thanks Jazer, you've done it again ... This video is fantastic, it's just what I need !!!
Returning after 20 year break so you can imagine the fatigue and frustration. Level 8 back then to very little menory is saddening but this will transform and revive my interest to practice the fundamentals.. thank you
I love it. Thank you so much.
Thank you so very much for this video ❤
Thanks so much! That was fun! 😊
That's a great trick/lesson. I've pretty much got the hang of the C scale now (with right hand) so playing it with left hand chords will be an interesting challenge. I like how the first time through it leaves it hanging by ending on the E and the second time resolving on the C. Nice.
🔥 love how the major-seven leading-tone (B), over the subdominant chord (FAC), effectively creates a rootless G⁹/F (guidetones BF) …or at least: this vi-IV-I creates tonality-tension-release… with the IV ⁽ᵃᵈᵈ#¹¹⁾ (FAC+B) tritone substituting for the V⁹ (FAGB or GBDFA) chord like a ii-V⁷-I 😎💫
You always come up with the best ideas and learning practices - What a super musician you are. Thank you Jazer!!!!!
Nice one! Thanks! This also a nice move towards improvisation. It could help classical musicians, who would like to improvise- but are "afraid" to do so- on their way. Randomly changing the direction of the right hand (doing the explained exercise) doesen't sound bad-and this already is a simple improvisation. Leaving gaps helps the beginner of this kind of playing to forming short Phrasen. Once comfotable with this, one could move towards playing freely over chord progressions found in pop or simple jazz tunes. Moving towards jazz will require more scales, but the church modes hidden in the plain major scale are a start. Next, one could try the the modes of the altered minor scales. Next could be all the other more exotic construced scales you find in jazz music. A really really nice channel called New Jazz Channel by Oliver Pren takes you from pentatonics to stacked pentatonics or stacked blues scales (which can also be used improvising over commonly chord progressions in pop or gospel music. This way of using pentatonic scales also cover all the church modes of the major scale).
I'm looking forward to check out the rest of your videos...
Thanks for putting this on YT!
Coming back to this, time to put it in practice. Merci.
I loved this tip!! I am working on transposing it into different keys!! 😀
You are a great pianist. You teach your utube videos honestly. Show your finger moments very slowly, so we can at least have an interest to start learning.
Wishing you the best of the best Sir. ✨✨✨
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Thank you. Makes practicing a little bit more enjoyable. Sounds like playing music. Wow!!
Ahhh makes so much sense now calling them octave scales. Thank you helping me understand.
This is GOLD!! Thank you so much.
Wow thank you for sharing the fabulous way how to practice scale
Sounds BRILLIANT!
Huuuuuu thank yoooou!!!!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 I been playing for 2 years but because learning scales is so boring I couldn’t process and been exploring ways to make it fun thank you a toooon 🥺🥺🥺🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Thanks for sharing.
You make playing & practicing scales beautiful!! Thank you for all you do! 🙏🎼🥰
Hi Jazer, Please give us a lesson on basic BOOGIE WOOGIE, it is great fun, Thanks very much, Joan.
love it! I’m looking forward to trying this, and in different keys too. How about a follow up? Maybe key of A and key of Eb?
I posted a link to a MuseScore file for this today in a comment on this page that can be transposed to any key if needed. MuseScore is open source, 100% free software, and the file I created is likewise completely free (no charge, and no copyright)
It gave me the idea of practicing scales using alberti bass and bass + chord like Chopin. Great video.
Jazer, this is brilliant! I can't wait to bring this into scales practice.
So cool!. I cannot take it to that level of beatifulness yet :-) but I do that sort of thing to anything I practice so I dont get bored (Altering Hanon excersises or making my own up) Thank you for this demonstration. Very beautiful.
I've been practicing piano for a little less than 18 years, about 17 years and 50 weeks less.
This looks like a great way to spice up the next several years. Merci.
Great idea! Makes the scale sound like a contemporary pop ballad and this goes very well with young students, who might call it quits when you throw too much theory and exercises at them (both are extremely important, but also very hard). Thanks for this!
I simply love the way you explain everything. It makes it look very clear an easy. The rest is, of course, just practice :)
Hey bud I love your videos, you are a fab teacher. Thank you so much for your efforts in helping not just me but thousands of other people like me. Thank you so much
Such a great tip for scales. As a guitar player who is learning piano, this really helps me with chord recognition. Thanks!
Wonderful. Thanks
You are genius!
Love your bonus challenge #1 LH stretch - very beautiful. I’m going to use this with one of my students this week!