The EASIEST Way To Memorize Every Major Scale On Piano

It's really important that we can easily picture major scale on piano with really thinking about it to avoid going off course and using the wrong notes when we're actually playing music. Truly memorizing a scale is more than just learning to play it up and down!
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0:00 What we're doing
0:46 The Major Scale Pattern In 2 Simple Blocks
3:00 The Major Scale Pattern In Steps
3:50 Repeating The Blocks In 2 (or more) Octaves
4:00 Finding Whole Steps
5:03 Finding Major Scales Quickly Using 2 Blocks Of Notes
8:05 Why Use Blocks? Blocks VS Steps
10:45 More Examples Finding Major Scales
11:33 How To Practice
12:56 Interval Names
#beginnerpiano #majorscales #pianoscales

[@PianoFromScratch]

Check out the in depth scales & Chords guides here pianofs.com/downloads/ 🔽Below is a list of the other helpful major scales videos mentioned 🔽 All the major scale fingerings kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJ6cl5qnbqiCnas Learn the chords we find inside a major scale kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2LamouQbL-haJo Chords in a key Learn major scales in this useful order & pattern kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4XVXoV8d8qeq7s These mistakes make playing scales feel difficult kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHKun4CLgNGjidU

[@sinaahengombe3477]

A1

[@timothyirwin8974]

Bought them 2 moths back and have practiced them daily almost. Going over this video and the lessons makes more sense for me now.

[@LogioTek]

Great lesson! Visual learning way is always better because your brain is designed to interpret a lot of information at once in the image and memorize/recall patterns.

[@PianoFromScratch]

I think it really helps with piano in general. Theory is really important but on piano we still need to quickly find the notes we need and become familiar with patterns on the instrument itself. Linking theory with the visual side has always worked best for me and made theory more practically useful.

[@amarie693]

I’ve watched lots of piano lesson videos. This is the first I’ve seen about learning shapes, very helpful! Thank you!

[@craigcohen5378]

I've been a guitar player for 30+ years and have been trying to really learn piano and this video was invaluable in helping me visualize scales in a way that I hadn't before. Thank you!

[@gis3326]

Excellent explanation. Thank you!

[@eprand3]

This is excellent! Thank you so much.

[@marshasmith4300]

GREAT instructions!

[@nathalieheath5693]

Spot on! I discovered this while working through the majors slowly through using the pattern. Since I discovered this, it’s been so much easier!!

[@PianoFromScratch]

Ah great!

[@charlesrose7212]

Great lesson again! 😊

[@drparin]

Really great lesson. Thanks.

[@ronmeldon6440]

A really useful insight - thank you!

[@juniesdream]

Thanks so much for this one, you don't know how excited I am to practice this. I went and bought the PDF bundle for it as well. Cheers man.

[@PianoFromScratch]

Ah great, hope they help!

[@emmaA-]

Interesting! Thanks for the video 🌟

[@chicagopete3516]

Fantastic explanation! Thanks!

[@PianoFromScratch]

Hope it helps!

[@palvalheim6417]

Interesting! Can’t wait to try the practice routine you suggested 😊

[@brianwest9831]

Good lesson thanks easy to follow and explained well

[@thomascordery7951]

So valuable for us visual learners! Not just us I'm sure; just that I'm recognizing how great this concept is for those of us "afflicted" with that learning style.

[@chrisw685]

This deserves way more likes! So many things just clicked in my head seeing this. Especially when you said any letter isn't repeated, it's either a flat or sharp depending. Obvious now lol. Thanks man.

[@akmt123]

Excellent, cheers from Canada.

[@St.Pa-al]

This is great Max & i can't thank you enough on chord inversion shapes.

[@PianoFromScratch]

Hey, no worries, glad it’s helped!!

[@mamphoagnes7418]

This will help me a lot thank you so much 😊

[@JamsODonnell100]

Eye opening (literally) ! 👁️ Loved the ‘chunking up’ approach. Like for too long I’ve been using the step by step approach, based on a knowledge of key signatures and determining what notes are ‘allowed’ based on that, and always starting from the tonic. Thus usually ending up on relying on written notation- Any interpretation of the sheet music being hesitant and confused…, this is such an alternative way of ‘looking’ at scales. Much more holistic. So clever to break the scale into two parts. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that before 🤔 Really helpful (insightful), thanks very much. ✅ *Looking* forward to using it…🎶

[@lyravisionmusic]

Bloody brilliant exposition of shapes mate. Shapes are the key to mastering dynamic musical expression and emotional storytelling.

[@AbhijitDeshmukh-i3l]

very good teaching

[@user-oo4sr1nf9q]

Thank you this is the best

[@lospopularos]

Nice idea. I’d never thought of this before. Thank you.

[@MinusMedley]

Brilliant, simplified a lot of theory for me too.

[@markjulie2072]

I have just started learning piano (2 weeks - whooo! - lol) Your teaching method is perfect. Visual patterns are really helpful to "see music" and not just hear a load of numbers or letters. You have a new subscriber in me. Thank you so much. Mark :o)

[@amaizenblue2266]

Absolutely fantastic presentation. You are to be commented on your use of colorful teaching aids to solidify the salient points beyond the necessary, albeit abstract, intervalic formula. Great job !

[@PianoFromScratch]

Thanks! I try to get things across as clearly as I can 👍

[@deltacomatso173]

I just play scales one at the time, it doesnt take long before you have memorized all 12. C, C#, D, ........and so on. It is really fun. And you must use correct fingering from start, just look at a fingering sheet, right hand and left hand. Chromatic scale with correct fingering is also fun and useful.

[@norakat]

You’re a genius!

[@emmanuelkimutai6717]

I love this kudos

[@renan_delon]

You're so damn right, how I could not see this? now I feel stupid, but thanks!

[@PianoFromScratch]

No worries, hope it helps!

[@manu-singh]

Hi sir, Please try to upload more regularly, I love learning from your videos

[@PianoFromScratch]

Thanks! I will try, it's been christmas holidays here recently but back on it now!

[@vincentgoosse4570]

Briliant. No other words

[@leavesfromthevine4465]

You should really group according to hand turns(where you need to pass thumb down or rotate wrist and jump). After a few sessions and the muscle memory kicks in, your brain won't need to visualise major/minor pattern. But grouping and phrasing according to natural hand position will be invaluable to breaking long melodic lines in all your practice-eternity. That is luckily very similar with what is grouped here but it breakes for example in f major where the b flat should be grouped with the f-g-a before it.

[@rabmacleod6331]

Super help! Thank you could you do the blues and pent ?

[@PianoFromScratch]

Consider it done 😉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJuQc4KjgMyXe5Y

[@pc2nite]

Very good idea, thank you. These 3 and 4 note patterns are also fragments of the scale called the whole tone or augmented one. There are only two sets of 6 notes. Maybe learning both could help getting used to whole tones which is a large part of the pattern.

[@PianoFromScratch]

Ah yes I’m sure that would help too

[@lilyle9714]

Omg this IS THE right way to memorize scales. It just turns that chaos into complete order!

[@mojsterr]

Damn I love your channel

[@andrehines]

love this idea. What exactly are those circles called and where can we find them to purchase? thanks much

[@RaciouS91]

Thanks. 3 whole steps : 4 whole steps in between half step

[@maroshinduliak6778]

Hi there!! amazing video! Can you please do this for minor scale as well? also can we apply relative minor to major scale?

[@PianoFromScratch]

I have an older video series on minor scales already you can check out covering all that. I may do an ‘all in one’ video at some point though 👍

[@donbaker4073]

When looking at the other scales, Minor, Blues, Pentatonic, etc., do you still use the 3 block & 4 block method? Or do the number of notes in a block change?

[@norakat]

I think what’s challenging is knowing the 3rd/5th/7ths/9ths etc. in a changing chord progression and knowing exactly where they are for each chord as a song is played. Since you asked..

[@user-pl4nk2sb9f]

I like the technique at 12:44. But if it's about learning the scale in steps, shouldn't it be a half step at the 4th key then as well?

[@louiscornale5667]

Great for wooly bully watch it now 😮

[@andream6533]

This is great! Thank you for showing us how to visualize the major scales. I know I will find it helpful in my learning journey!

[@lospopularos]

The most challenging for me is being able to play all the inversions of complex jazz chords fast enough without having to think.

[@PianoFromScratch]

Yes more complex chords can be tougher. With jazz voicings though that include extensions (9ths 11ths or 13ths), in practice you likely won’t end up using every inversion like you would with basic chords. Practice time for those better spent on the particular voicings you will find useful.

[@lospopularos]

@@PianoFromScratch Thank you.

[@9Tayles]

Knowing the chords by ear

[@akmt123]

Though I play the guitar with the L hand and also the Keyboard with the L hand too as just cannot use my R hand!!! Why is this, and, how can I get out of this dilemma as playing Chords on the Keyboard is no problem at all with my L hand and my R hand is too weak to play the Melody!

[@unclemick-synths]

I had a similar problem with my left hand. Repetition and giving extra practice to the weak hand (as in spending twice as much time working on it) is the only thing that has helped me.

[@akmt123]

@@unclemick-synths Thanks....will try it seriously now....

[@Practicalmusicministryskil4906]

Thank you for this video! I share a free bite by bite “learn to read music” program on my KZbin channel in the hopes of making music literacy accessible to all!

[@molotulo8808]

Tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone! Major scale

[@gazza363]

4 plus 3 a major chord for me.... 3 plus 4 a minor on the floor.

[@portraitofalion]

All ideas are welcome becasue keys are weird.

[@raymarch3576]

what I don't get is why we don't just arrange the keys differently to make all those patterns more regular. Looking at everything through the lens of this particular scale by building it into the placement of white and black keys seems like an additional burden with no benefits. Or maybe I just don't see the benefits of seeing everything from a "c major"ish perspective. Bass players seem to just get so much faster through all of this because they have regular all-fourths tuning. I feel like I'm wasting my time deciphering obfuscating patterns rather than useful aspects of notes and music. Its like the QUERTY keyboard, but for musicians. Idk if anyone will read this, but my question to experienced musicians would be: If you could rewrite history and design the key-instrument that future generations have to use (and that gets hardcoded into all music software and notation), would you build it again with this particular layout?

[@PianoFromScratch]

It’s a good question but unfortunately I can’t imagine another layout that would work any better. If all 12 notes were in a straight line of keys (like the white keys) that would solve 1 issue but then the keys would become so spread out the piano would become unplayable. Hang in there, you’re not wasting time, there’s a point where the common shapes and patterns you need like chords and scales become familiar enough to navigate them confidently. They become part of your everyday vocabulary but it just does take some time and experience with the help of a little focused practice 👍

[@michaelfisher6817]

Easy to visualize. Will look at other videos.😊

[@pc2nite]

Check out the chromatic button accordion and Linnstrument.

[@raymarch3576]

@@pc2nite yeah I'm almost at the point where I'm ordering a Linnstrument. it looks amazing

[@pc2nite]

​@@raymarch3576Search for balanced opinions first. I am not experienced. Despite many attempts to replace it the piano abides. Some of what you now see as disadvantages may prove their worth. Good luck and sweet music.

[@victorchen3245]

The easiest way to “visualize”, not really “memorize”. Thanks for sharing though.

[@PianoFromScratch]

Well I think they’re linked, by memorising a pattern to find all the scales, that in turn helps you memorise the scales themselves. When we have 12 keys to learn every type of chord and scale in, it’s really important to learn how to build each type as opposed to just to just learning/reciting every single one individually, it’s more like a ‘teach a man to fish’ kind of deal. 👍