The Best Piano Technical Exercise (Multi-Octave Scales)
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Without doubt, scales are the BEST technical exercise you can do on the piano. Don’t believe me? Here’s why.
Scales help with:
Finger strength
Finger speed/dexterity
Rhythm
Learning all the key signatures
Improving ear training
Improvisation
Hand independence
So if you haven’t figured it out yet - you should definitely be playing scales.
When we start learning scales, we often do it only with one octave. The next step is to take it beyond one octave into multi-octave scales. But to do that requires some practice, as it involves additional thumb tucks and crossovers.
However, the payoff is big. Once you get the sills down to play two-octave scales, it’s easy to then transition to three and even four-octave scales. And once you can play four-octave scales, hands together, you’ll feel like an absolute piano boss. You’ll be comfortable in every part of the keyboard, and it will make learning new songs a breeze.
Today Cassi has 3 tips to help you developt the skills to play multi-octave scales. Here they are, with their timecodes:
Starting with the C scale - 0:32
Exercise 1. One octave ending with the thumb - 0:50
Exercise 1 with the left hand - 2:06
Exercise 1. Taking it to two octaves - 2:52
Exercise 2. Playing far away from the body - 4:00
Exercise 3. Starting a scale on a note OTHER than the root note - 5:55
(Fun fact! The scale Cassi plays is actually the E Phrygian mode)
Scales can be boring -- and you don’t need to practice them for hours every day. BUT the difference between pianists who get better, and those who stay at the same level is practice. It can be a grind -- but if you can commit 10 minutes to scales each practice you’ll see the benefits in no time.
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