Arpeggios (Piano playing). Then there is also a bottom scale, a bunch of them has all these things left. There are also octave scales which, I guess I could show that, too.
Octaves are pretty easy. You are going to play two notes that are an octave apart with one hand, so I am playing the C and the C. That is an octave. So, figure out how far your hand needs to go, and then all you are going to do—a lot of people find this hard, but all you have to do is get the position of how far the notes are with your fingers, and then just pull the wrist up and down like this, (Piano playing) and then for your chromatic octave, you can either go one, like this, or you can one and then put your fourth finger on the flat, so the flat notes appear. (Piano playing) So much as like (piano playing).
A lot of people have their own opinion, but I find going from (piano playing) to the four, up top here. It seems to make it smoother. Some people disagree, but whatever. It is all a matter of opinion.
Clubbed to Death, you can do that. So, you can just do the scale for (inaudible) (piano playing). Or you can use both hands like this. (Piano playing) That is really helpful for a lot of bigger pieces when you skip (unable to transcribe).
So, that is pretty much the scale to use just to warm, get your fingers going. Also, if the scale is too diminished and down with the 7th solid and broken.
So, if you are done, that is good. Okay, after the 15 minutes of that, so we have 45 minutes left, and we will spend about maybe 35 minutes working on pieces, and then deviate the time equally between songs, or put more timing into one song that you are learning, and that is that. You have already got it and you just try to keep it up. Practice a little bit more, tune it up. Follow through that, whatever you might call it.
Then the last ten minutes left, the last ten minutes, I would use that for reading. You, training. You training is like someone guarding on the piano and going like (piano playing). That is a Major 3rd or perfect 5th, stuff like that. You can find this in most scale books in the back, section after all the scales. They have a section with reading exercises and all that other stuff in it, I do not know.
So, look into that. That is definitely a check-out, getting through those books.
Your tips for site reading, this is the next thing I wanted to cover. You need to look at it differently. A lot of people look at one note and be like, “Okay, that is enough.” And the look to the next note and then they will go, F-A-C-E. That is a B, okay? And then the next one, “Oh that is a C.” So, people are spending more, they are trying to figure out the note by counting or figuring out what this note is or not, and you are in a hurry once you got one note.
The beauty of notation is as it goes up one step; it is only gone up one note. So, you find the first note and then you count how many spaces you have gone. So, I set up the examples here. See this? I do not know if you can tell, but this is an F right here. It might be a bit too blurry on this. Anyway, this is B out here, so we know this is a space note.
Now, the next space note above that is going to be a 3rd. So, from here to here, that is a space note. (Piano playing) Actually, sorry, that would be line to line. Yes, I am a little tired.
So, that is F there, so F. Next space note and the next space note after that. So, I find memorizing the first two space notes above that very, very helpful all the time. So, you are always going to be thinking in that frame of mind. This is a 3rd from here to here, and this is the 5th. One, two, three, four, five. That is like 5th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st. So, if you are going from here to here, that is the 2nd, here to here is the 3rd, 4th, 5th.
You judge it by what are that Major scale that has the keys on. So, if you are in F that is the 4th. From here in C major, there is no flat or anything. So, that would be the 4th note of the scale. (Piano playing) So, that is the 4th. It is pretty basic, like that.
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