Piano Scales

Tester46

Re-Posted from Theory Section


I'm just starting to learn the piano, and have done a few lessons. I'm progressing well enough. I'm looking for a good book for learning piano scales. Ideally a book that explains the scales, the fingering and the patterns in a clear easy way, so I can practise away myself and learn them and know what I am doing.

Any good books or internet sites for this? While I'm at it, any suggestions for good beginners books generally?

All suggestions welcome!

raindog.promo

I don't understand people "learning" different scales (sorry, I'm not trying to be condescending here).

I thought myself music theory and I figured out how scales are made, basically what all the intervals are between a note and it's octave. Once I understood that it was easy enough to see how chords are constructed and how scales are chosen from these intervals.

It also meant I could play a scale from any note.

I could write you a quick essay of how scales are made up, if you want, just PM me. If not, no bother, and good luck with your search.

Tester46

raindog.promo wrote: »

I don't understand people "learning" different scales (sorry, I'm not trying to be condescending here).

I thought myself music theory and I figured out how scales are made, basically what all the intervals are between a note and it's octave. Once I understood that it was easy enough to see how chords are constructed and how scales are chosen from these intervals.

It also meant I could play a scale from any note.

I could write you a quick essay of how scales are made up, if you want, just PM me. If not, no bother, and good luck with your search.

I agree with you entirely. But, you didn't just invent music theory yourself, you learned it from somewhere (albeit you were self-taught and well done on that).

I am looking for good reliable sources for the information I need to do the same thing. In particular, there seems to be a good reason why scales are fingered in particular ways, and I want to learn the correct ways. I have seen several versions on the internet and I don't know what I can and can't rely on.

Organeer

There is an excellent book called "How to play the piano despite years of lessons" which is really great. It focuses on making music instead of just learning scales off by heart. How many tunes can you play by just going up & down the scales? I got my copy on Amazon.

Tester46

Organeer wrote: »

There is an excellent book called "How to play the piano despite years of lessons" which is really great. It focuses on making music instead of just learning scales off by heart. How many tunes can you play by just going up & down the scales? I got my copy on Amazon.

Thanks

rahtkennades

This site might be of some help.
http://www.musictheory.net/
Look under the 'Lessons' section.