You may wish to choose traditional scale fingerings instead, especially when performing the melodic minor scale ascending and descending.Īlso see my keyboard arpeggio fingering chart. Only play your thumb on the white keys, never on. The more notes you choose, the more targeted your selection will be. Select the piano notes to start the scale selector. This chart gives optimum keyboard scale fingerings, not the most-commonly taught traditional piano scale fingerings. The fingering always alternates 123 1234 (or 321 4321) so that the same fingering pattern repeats every octave. Hello :) Welcome to This tool will help you find the music scale (or key) to your music.Each scale has a different number of sharps and flats in it. For example, a song that includes the chords G, C, D and Em are most likely in the key of G. A key is a collection of tones and it is common to say that a piece of music is written in the key of. There is a major and a minor scale for every note (including sharps and flats) this means that there are 12 major and 12 minor scales. Both scales and keys refer to groups of tones and sometimes we can either say scale or key and mean the same thing. These are just the fingering patterns: Feel free to use 5 when appropriate (first note, last note, turning around). There are 2 main types of scale/key Major and Minor (major sounds happy, minor sounds sad).For example, try to make both thumbs play together somewhere in the scale. The most popular keys in each scale drawn from over 30,000 songs in the TheoryTab database. When working out scale passages in real music, consider alternatives that align the fingering patterns between the hands.The augmented second in harmonic minor scales must fit conveniently under the hand (preferably between 1 and 2 or 2 and 3, except for the left hand of E♭/D♯ minor).Only play your fifth finger at a starting place, a stopping place, or a turning-around place.Always play your fourth finger on a black key (when there is a black key to be played in the scale).Pianists can take Practical Grades at Initial Grade. Only play your thumb on the white keys, never on black keys. In the exam you perform three pieces, play scales and arpeggios and take sight-reading and aural tests.The fingering always alternates 123 1234 (or 321 4321) so that the same fingering pattern repeats every octave.Download the keyboard scale fingering chart as a PDF General Keyboard Scale Fingering Rules

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