Learning Major Scales on Piano - Lesson for Beginners

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Channel: Piano Lessons On The Web · 2015 · Music

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Play any major scale on the piano with this lesson in the learn how to play piano series.  
This piano and music theory lesson tutorial is designed to help you understand and learn how to play any major scale on any note.  This is meant to be an easy to understand music theory 101 lesson. So, if you are looking for something more advanced check out some of my other music theory videos or check out my website http://www.lessonsontheweb.com

Major scales are made up of a series of whole steps and half steps.  This pattern is whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step.  Remember that to play the major scale on the piano with proper technique, you will need to know the correct fingering for the given scale.  This lesson only covers the strict formula on how to make a major scale on any note.
Practice this formula starting from different notes to learn how the pattern looks for all of the major keys.

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Timestamp: 
00:22 Introduction to Major Scales
01:25 Beginning of Lesson On Major Scales
1:55 Half Steps
03:25 Major Scale Formula
05:40 Describing Aspects of Major Scale
06:34 Outro

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