If the mention of scales conjures frightening flashbacks of instrumental lessons undertaken in your youth, you won’t be alone ...

Love ’em or hate ’em, there’s no better method of keyboard practice than scales for improving overall dexterity. Major and minor scales are specific sequences of eight notes, defined by the patterns ...

Play a C major scale, then a C# major one, and you’ll get the idea. Rather than spending hours practising them until muscle memory takes over, you can remember simple number sequences - known as ...

This bad rep is entirely unjustified, however, since, regardless of whether you're a composer, songwriter, producer or DJ, shoring up your musical knowledge with a smattering of grassroots theory can ...

Major scales can be in any key, but a simple major scale is what you get if you start C on a piano and go up, playing only white notes (listen to the audio above to hear examples of the all the ...

It all got a certain pianist thinking... what if we could view the whole history of piano music through that one key? Pianist and YouTuber Frederick Viner has taken a whopping selection of 46 great ...

Musical intervals reflect the sounds of our own speech, and are hidden in the vowels we use. Musical scales just sound right because they match the frequency ratios that our brains are primed to ...

Work toward sight-reading musical scores, from key signatures, chord and note symbols to articulation and dynamics, with video and sheet music examples.