Being able to feel as well as see the music on the keyboard will help you to hear it more accurately.
If you have a piano at home or one is available at school, play on it the examples given here. May I suggest that you use this material for your student flutists who need the review and, even more so, for those who never really learned much about scales in the first place.Įven if you don’t play the piano, you should acquaint yourself with the layout of the piano keyboard, for this will help you to visualize scale construction that much better. There is no better time than the start of this school year to "go back to the fundamentals," hence this article on the structure of the major scale. We forget that scale study, in addition to being indispensable for technical development, also increases our musical understanding – which is the real reason it helps our technique. Yet, too many of us not only neglect this type of practice, but also allow our understanding of scale theory to get rusty. From the September 1972 issue of The Instrumentalist.Įveryone knows that studying and practicing scales is good for you.
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