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Scales and Arpeggios: The Building Blocks of Music: TH TH TH ND TH TH

This document discusses the importance of scales and arpeggios as the building blocks of music. It provides instructions on how to master major and minor scales, including memorizing the circle of fifths and key signatures, understanding relative minors, and the different forms of melodic and harmonic minor scales. Suggested practice procedures include writing out scales, playing them slowly with proper fingering and rhythm, singing note names, and building muscle memory by playing scales perfectly multiple times in a row before moving on. Resources for further practice are also listed.

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Scales and Arpeggios: The Building Blocks of Music: TH TH TH ND TH TH

This document discusses the importance of scales and arpeggios as the building blocks of music. It provides instructions on how to master major and minor scales, including memorizing the circle of fifths and key signatures, understanding relative minors, and the different forms of melodic and harmonic minor scales. Suggested practice procedures include writing out scales, playing them slowly with proper fingering and rhythm, singing note names, and building muscle memory by playing scales perfectly multiple times in a row before moving on. Resources for further practice are also listed.

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Scales and Arpeggios:

The Building Blocks of Music


Importance
- used as the bases for melodies
- necessary parts of understanding keys
- necessary components of mastering technique

Major Scales
- memorize and understand the circle of 5ths
- memorize and understand key signatures
o last sharp of key = leading tone
o next to last flat of key = tonic

Minor Scales
- every major scale (key) has a corresponding relative minor scale (key)
o minor tonic = “la” of major scale
- use natural minor as the basis for the other forms
- learn natural minors in conjunction with the relative majors
- once natural minor form is mastered, others are relatively easy:
o melodic minor = raised 6th and 7th ↑, natural minor ↓
o harmonic minor = raised 7th (augmented 2nd between 6th and 7th)

Suggested Practice Procedures


- write out full 2-octave scale with both key signature and accidentals
o remember to include the arpeggio!
o include fingerings/positions and/or note names only where needed
- play on the piano to see, hear and feel the scale
- sing note names while moving valves or slide
- play slowly in rhythm on your instrument
o breathe after the middle-octave tonic note (both directions) to have
plenty of air for the highest and lowest notes
- sing with solfege to check intonation
- alternate playing from the page and from memory
- build solid (and correct) muscle memory by playing scales at least 3 times in a
row perfectly before moving on
- once you get to know a scale, really get to know the key by playing patterns

Resources
- Arban, Complete Method, especially pages 64-87 and 160-167
- Clarke, Technical Studies, especially studies 2 through 6
- Parès, Pares Scales

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