Scales are an essential part of musical study and are a vital part of an effective practice routine. But as you develop your musicianship, scales can also lead to better improvisation and understanding of melodic structure. This course will provide you with a new look at practicing and using scales to guide your musical creativity. You will start by learning standard and non-standard fingering for scales commonly used in popular music, before using these scales to create new melodies. In addition to the examples covered in the course, you will also be given extra exercises and backing tracks to help you improve your playing and improvising. At the end of this course, you will have improvised using scales such as major and natural minor, major and minor pentatonic, the Blues scale, as well as several modes. You will be able to develop a practice routine to continue memorizing these scales, and be able to identify which scales would work best for a specific genre and chord progression.
AG
Just the refresher course I needed to help get back into playing piano
JH
This is a great class for people who have just a bit of familiarity with the piano already, but want a deeper dive into the varieties of scales and a some practice improvising over backing tracks.
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This is a great class for people who have just a bit of familiarity with the piano already, but want a deeper dive into the varieties of scales and a some practice improvising over backing tracks.
I enjoyied following Suzanna´s recomendations.
I liked the process she follow.
And I would like to have more pieces for each improvisation.
Thanks Suzann.
Just the refresher course I needed to help get back into playing piano