If you get stuck on sharps, remember just climb up your ladder. Pause to do that, and then press play to go on.Ĭan you tell me the major key that has three sharps. If you need some extra work on the right hand you can do that too. Pause and go ahead and work on the left hand. Okay, but we'll use finger 3 on the F-sharp. So we're going to use finger 3 instead 5 3 2 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 5įive three two one three two one two three one two three five now pause the video and Now pause the video and work on this new fingering for an arpeggio that might be new to you maybe not. Now we usually use 5 then 4 when we play an arpeggio with the left hand,īut because we have this sharp the 4 will be too big of a reach. There's our D major chord, and we use fingers 1 2 3 1 2 3 5, 3 2 1 3 2 1 You should be pointing here, here, and here. Pause the video, work on the left hand D major two octave scale, then press play to go on.Ĭan you point to the three notes that build the D major chord? So as I play I think four, then three, then four, then three. Start with the finger 5 on low D,Ĭome back to a group of four, a group of three, a group of four, and then finger 5 finishes it off.Īlways in your mind be thinking of these groups. Pause the video to work on your right hand D major scale, then press play to go on. If you can already see all of those notes from the group in your imagination, your fingers will naturally find that much more easily. Picture that entire next group as you're shifting to the next group. If you think of those groups in your imagination as you play,Īnd as you're finishing one group, try to not just picture the next note. You can always pause the video if you need more time to practice those groups,Īs you play in your mind, think three, four, three, four. Now group of four, group of three, group of four, group of three. Group of four, then finger 5 plays D on top. Group of three, try this with me, group of four, We're going up a fifth on the ladder of fifth. Now, pop quiz: what is the next key with two sharps? The left hand goes 5 4 2 1 4 2 1 2 4 1 2 4 5 Pause the video, practice both on your own, then press play to go on. Remember, an arpeggio is just taking the G major triad, putting it up an octave, then adding an extra G on top Work on left hand or right hand, or both, then press play to go on. If you want to also review your right hand two octave G major scale as well, Good, now pause the video and practice your left hand two octave G major scale. Group of four, group of three, group of four, finish with five. ![]() Good, and then played normally we get 5 4 3 2 1 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 3 2 1, and then back. So we'll start with just finger 5 on low G, then do a group of four, Otherwise, let's go on to the left hand.Īnd let's practice our clusters. Pause the video if you need more time to practice that. ![]() That brings us home to our top G, then we'll come down with a group of four,ĭown with a group of three, down with a group of four, down with a group of three. Play group of one, two, three, starting on G, then one, two, three, four, then we've got that F-sharp on top, then a group of three again.īasically the same group we had before but now up an octave. The rest of it is all groups of three and four. That finger 5 will play either the top note for our right hand, or the bottom note for the left hand. ![]() Remember, scale fingering goes in groups alternating between three and four notes,Īnd then our pinky is kind of the loner. In other words, we're going to think in the groups of three and four. Now to practice our scales today, I'd like to use clusters. With one, two, and three sharps respectively. So today we're going to review G major, D major, and A major. When we get to A, we'll need three sharps. Then we need one sharp to make it sound correct. So there's the key of G major.Įvery time we go up a fifth, one, two, three, four, five, now if D is our starting note, Then when we travel up a fifth, one, two, three, four, five, if we wanted to make G our starting note. Remember we start with C major no sharps or flats, Well on the ladder of fifths which we'll be using today, We've got the ladder of fifths, which you can see here, which gives us sharps.Įvery time we go up a fifth on the ladder, we're adding sharps to our scale. I'm Joseph Hoffman, and in this lesson we're going to work on playing two octave scales and arpeggios in three different major keys.
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