Thus, a great daily warm-up is: D-flat major, C-sharp minor D major, D minor E-flat major, E-flat minor, etc.
Similarly, it’s useful to practice parallel keys side-by-side. Chromatic progression has the advantage that the fingers are forced to adjust to a very different pattern from one scale to the next.
Practice chromatically rather than through the circle of fifths. However, even Vladimir Horowitz made this observation about C major: With his reputation as the greatest virtuoso of his time (his sheer variety of touch at all speeds has hardly been excelled), whenever interviewers asked him to name the most difficult piece he ever played, he would offer one of two replies, either Liszt’s startlingly difficult etude ‘Feux follets’ or the C major scale. Unfortunately, nowadays C major is almost without exception the first piano scale learned, since the most difficult to play is also the easiest to read. Chopin always started his students with these keys and ended with C major as the most physically difficult. The five black keys promote a natural position of the hand, since the longer fingers play the shorter (i.e., black) keys and vice versa.
Here are 10 practice tips for students and teachers:īegin with the black keys (B major, D-flat, G-flat). Nonetheless, while virtually all piano music has scales literally left and right, all too many students view scales as needless tedium rather than essential elements of music’s expressive vocabulary.
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