How To Memorize EVERY Major Scale On Piano

[@PianoFromScratch]

Check out the in depth scales & Chords guides here pianofs.com/downloads/ 🎹 BLACK FRIDAY 25% OFF THEORY GUIDE BUNDLES 🔽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.

[@byronrobbins8834]

​@@sinaahengombe3477you might want to look at the signature name, the C# name denotes a total presence of light, whereas the Cb name denotes a total absence.

[@amarie693]

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

[@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.

[@exp-io853]

​@@PianoFromScratch honestly thank you for making this channel and helping us beginners...its been so fun watching your videos..its soooo helpful :))

[@SnakePicks]

This was super helpful. Seeing the scales on the staff is helpful, but using your trick to visualize the pattern on the piano is next level helpful. Thanks for sharing.

[@SnakePicks]

I’ve just ordered your scales guide and love it so far. Will be a great reference to have.

[@PianoFromScratch]

Awesome, hopefully it helps you practice

[@muttstudios9731]

The whole block counting thing has literally unlocked my understanding of major keys. Thank you so freaking much for that simple and super effective way of breaking it down.

[@PianoFromScratch]

Great to hear!

[@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!

[@mayaalkan3748]

you have no idea how much this helped me . THANK YOU!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@MinusMedley]

Brilliant, simplified a lot of theory for me too.

[@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.

[@lilyle9714]

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

[@jeffh5388]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@stevewexler]

A game-changer for me, in terms of learning scales. Also makes it quicker to find note numbers (eg to find a fourth).

[@charlesrose7212]

Great lesson again! 😊

[@kawwabonga]

you've got a talent to explain things in a very accessible way!

[@cocoxu7945]

Thanks

[@PianoFromScratch]

Thanks! Much appreciated

[@drparin]

Really great lesson. Thanks.

[@ronmeldon6440]

A really useful insight - thank you!

[@eprand3]

This is excellent! Thank you so much.

[@jeffteza8644]

That was an incredibly helpful tool to help visualize the keyboard instead of memorizing sharps and flats for different keys. Great stuff.

[@lyravisionmusic]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@DrummClem]

Damn that's SUPER helpful ! I always wondered if there was some shape-like things to build upon like on guitar... Well now I know.

[@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 👍

[@marshasmith4300]

GREAT instructions!

[@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

[@charlottewarburton7433]

I have been trying to tolerate learning scales for years and this is revolutionary knowledge to me! thanks so much dude, so pleased I found this video!!!

[@PianoFromScratch]

That’s great, hope it helps you out

[@chicagopete3516]

Fantastic explanation! Thanks!

[@PianoFromScratch]

Hope it helps!

[@lospopularos]

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

[@prasadmuthukumar8560]

Best video for learning scales

[@vincentgoosse4570]

Briliant. No other words

[@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)

[@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…🎶

[@palvalheim6417]

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

[@rabmacleod6331]

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

[@PianoFromScratch]

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

[@AbhijitDeshmukh-i3l]

very good teaching

[@brianwest9831]

Good lesson thanks easy to follow and explained well

[@mamphoagnes7418]

This will help me a lot thank you so much 😊

[@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!!

[@akmt123]

Excellent, cheers from Canada.

[@emmaA-]

Interesting! Thanks for the video 🌟

[@michaelwilliamson248]

This is interesting! Easy -ish to apply to minor scales/natural, harmonic and melodic. Any tips for applying to blues scales? It seems you’d want overlapping chunks!

[@sake6908]

very helpful

[@alionadameron]

Omg, so simple. Genius

[@RandomKun]

Thank you so much for this video! I had absolutely no idea that I was playing my major scales wrong all along. This really helped me. I also have a question: Previously I was playing a different scale altogether as C major, and it had the notes mentioned below. I was using a trick of 3-2 to get my notes, that is, take a note, skip 3 keys and play next and then skip 2 keys and play the next and so on. can you tell me what I was actually playing because even though I was wrong, it was sounding great. C, E, G, B, D, F#, A What is this?? Please do tell me. Again thank you for the lesson 😊

[@PianoFromScratch]

This might not mean much at the moment yet but in that order those notes are actually an extended C major 7 chord (Cmaj13#11) But if you're talking about scales, reorder them so they're in 2nds (next to each other basically) C D E F# G A B and that is called 'Lydian'. It's a type of 'mode' technically but essentially it's just like the major scale but with a raised 4th note and it's an awesome sound, I agree!

[@RandomKun]

@@PianoFromScratch Thank you so much for letting me know. Now I can practice actual major scales and I can be at peace knowing that I was playing lydian. 😊👍🏼

[@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!

[@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?

[@Horst-g1k]

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?

[@norakat]

You’re a genius!

[@vijiind]

good bro tks

[@cMaXeJIJIo]

What I personally find challenging about learning the piano: having running water, heating and being bombed on an almost daily basis. Yep, that about I! 😂

[@Colleen-f6n]

Thank you this is the best

[@emmanuelkimutai6717]

I love this kudos

[@andrehines]

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

[@cyrusdeng0108]

thank u

[@RaciouS91]

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

[@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..

[@louiscornale5667]

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[@mojsterr]

Damn I love your channel

[@jamilachowdhury7278]

wonderful

[@jamilachowdhury7278]

great, excellent

[@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 👍

[@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!

[@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....

[@molotulo8808]

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

[@adilchokri]

Creative

[@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

[@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!

[@pianomusictheory]

❤

[@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.

[@portraitofalion]

All ideas are welcome becasue keys are weird.

[@gazza363]

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

[@EbereinnocentUdeh]

I do nort know it will be wonderful pls teache me

[@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. 👍

[@gis3326]

Excellent explanation. Thank you!