Your knowledge of keyboard geography andĬonfidence in the feel and shape of each scale will help in reading and [The mastering of all major and minor scales will benefit your piano This will help tremendously in all the other areas of piano study: tunes, music reading, and learning and memorizing piano pieces. Keyboard imagery will be expanding in your mind and in your hands.

Do this, and you will be greatly enhancing you knowledge and your skills.

Melodic minor ascending, and the natural minor descending.]Īs with all other scales that your play, multiply the benefits to your piano-playing foundation by following them with Arpeggios, a cadence, and a tune in the same key. For descending scales, just reverse the fingering you used ascending.įor the melodic minor scale, classical pianists like to play the Master the fingerings hand separately, and then together. To play each scale with both hands, ascending and descending, four Learn the scales ascending and descending. Melodic minor scale, and the harmonic minor scale. Here are the E-flat Minor Scales: the natural minor scale, the

E flat minor scale notes