Download our piano scale finger charts for the major scale, harmonic minor scale and more. Descending chromatic scales use flats for black piano keys. They are the thumb 1st finger, index finger 2nd finger and middle finger third finger. Use your 1st finger for notes on the 1st fret, 2nd finger for notes. Scale, chord, arpeggio and cadence studies in all major and minor keys presented in a convenient twopage format. The chromatic scale is all the notes on a piano one cool thing that i just learned is if you play a c chord with you right hand and then with your left hand starting on the c note a octave or 2 down play chromatic it sounds cool and is a great way to get ideas.
The present thesaurus is a reference book of scales and melodic patterns. Reference scales piano accompaniment mp3 downloads for. Includes an indepth 12 page explanation that leads to complete understanding of the fundamentals of major and minor scales, chords, arpeggios and cadences plus a clear explanation of scale degrees and a twopage guide to fingering the scales and arpeggios. Here is the first chromatic scale fingering we learn. Ascending chromatic scales use sharps for black piano keys. The complete book of scales, chords, arpeggios and. The chromatic scale is presented at the end of the book in a visually appealing, intuitive way, this time connecting fingering to the actual keyboard. He is using a hybrid scale a combination of the blues scale and the mixolydian scale. The word chromatic in music means 2 or more consecutive notes that are a half step 1 fret apart from one another. With standard notation, fingerings, chord names and introductory text. Note that a minor pentatonic has identical notes with c major pentatonic but in different order. Chromatic scales the chromatic scale guitar players need to learn. Musicians, centuries ago, reached the same conclusion, and as a result, they came up with a scheme for playing some of the notes and not others. As with the regular chromatic scale, the chromatic minor 3rd.
These instructions are designed to teach an intermediate piano player the proper technique and fingering pattern of the chromatic scale. A guitar chromatic scale contains all 12 possible pitches before arriving back at the starting note name an octave higher here are the notes in a c chromatic scale. An introduction to the chromatic harmony of the blues scale. Here they are, printable with fingering and study guide. Scales and arpeggios are the most basic piano passages. To play a chromatic scale, simply start on the note of your choice, and then play all the semitones until you reach the starting note again. This is simply a chromatic run up the 1st 4 frets on each string. Moreover, in equal temperament, all the semitones have the same size.
Starting on the note c, going down the scale, the fingering for the right hand is simply reversed. The pentatonic scale is frequently used in lots of popular music styles. Hanon exercises 240 piano finger exercises in all keys. The first lick we will look at is from uk chicken picker, albert lee.
Many professionals use these recordings to warmup, keep in shape, practice new patterns or licks, or to learn new songs and improvise on the chord scale progressions. First published in 1873, the virtuoso pianist by charles louis. Both books are exactly the same apart from the printed book including blank staff and tab along with blank chord boxes for your own guitar scale ideas. As regards fingering the chromatic scale, there are three ways to do it each have their advantages and each have their disadvantages. Notice how the white keys play the simple notes called natural notes and the black keys play the altered notes which have sharps or flats added. For the last 8 months ive been focusing on playing different classical piano pieces.
Read online piano scales arpeggios and download piano scales arpeggios book full in pdf formats. If you dont want notes, here are picture scales with all the major scales plus fingering for each hand. The chromatic scale is both a peculiar and entertaining scale to learn. Scales and scale studies for the violin edition peters. One cool thing that i just learned is if you play a c chord with you right hand and then with your left hand starting on the c note a octave or 2 down play chromatic it sounds cool and is a great way to get ideas. Free printable pdf downloads with notes and fingerings for scales in every key. Instructions on music fundamentals kindle edition by palmer, willard a. By far, the standard book of technique exercises is hanon the virtuoso pianist. Building piano scales major, minor, etc in all keys.
We cant talk about the chromatic scale in the key of c, for example. There are both pentatonic major and minor the minor is slightly more often used. According to the book music an appreciation 4th edition by roger kamien, the word. Check out my piano lessons and music theory books here. Chromatic scales, scales in thirds and sixths, and the grand scale are also included.
These make great handouts for piano teachers to use with students. Starting on the note, c, going up the scale, the fingering for the right hand is 123 12. In other words, they add interest to the line and then. Practising the piano nimble chromatics practising the piano. Every scale determines a key,that is an harmonic combunation of tones based on that scale. The longest musical phrase begins with a single note. Also discover the easiesttohardest sequence for scales and.
The chromatic scale or twelvetone scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches. The chromatic scale consists of twelve notes that each are one semistep apart it can be compared with the contrary diatonic scale, and it is also called the halftone scale. This eightnote scale functions well in jazz, because any 18th note line beginning from a. The advantage to this is that it can be fingered the same either ascending or descending. The chromatic scale that has no key signature and the chromatic scale that is based on a key. The disadvantage is that it is not the fastest way to do it. Student guide for solotuned harmonica part i diatonic. Advanced chromatic and diminished scale piano fingerings. For more information on scales their origins and how they are used please see the links below. Chromatic notes are typically notes that lead into a note. Some of these books are written specially for harmonica players. Basic music theory for adult beginner level piano players.
During the past 43 years, many private teachers as well as high school and college teachers have made the. Alfreds essentials of music theory is designed for students of any age, whether listener or performer, who want to have a better understanding of the language of music. The piano keyboard is one of the classic ways of viewing the chromatic scale. Each note is one halftone semitone 1 piano key white or black away from the next one, shown as h in the diagram below the tonic note shown as is the starting point and is always the 1st note in the chromatic scale. Chromatic scales chromatic scale studies jay lichtmann. Chromatic scale to create the 12 possible scales for any given mode, all you do is take that modes specific sequence of whole steps and half steps and start it. Its a great warmup exercise because it warms both your left and right hand, but its also great for building speed. Chromatic approach notes fundamental changes music book. Each scale is provided as a separate pdf download with finger numbers above each note. Starting on the note, c, going up the scale, the fingering for the right hand. Others are written for voice or for such other instruments as piano. The chromatic scale contains 12 notes, and uses every single white and black note counting up from the first. So it would be correct to say that this scale is made up of twelve semitones.
As a result, in 12tone equal temperament the most common temperament in western music, the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches. We now know how to form major, natural minor, melodic minor, harmonic minor and chromatic piano scales. The main scales of western music are major and minor scales. The chromatic scale consists of twelve notes that each are one semistep apart it can be compared with the contrary diatonic scale, and it is also called the half. Learning the minor scale notes and hlinor key names. The piano is tuned based on sound frequencies of notes that have evolved over the centuries, in the western tradition some eastern music has different notes and wont be discussed here. I got up to grade 45 and this is where my problem beings. Below is the c chromatic scale, which includes every key between one c and the next higher c. We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the blues scale, and others. This theory course is made up of three books of 40 pages each, with each book containing six units. Building the scale in stages an important and original feature of this book is that scales are built up in stages, with notes added in a particular harmonic order. Dont put it off until tomorrow or until you have the scale under better control. Learn how to play the chromatic scale on piano with the correct fingering for the. D minor pentatonic has the same notes as f major pentatonic and so.
This lesson teaches you the concept of chromatic approach notes in jazz, and how to apply them on a jazz blues. A chromatic scale lists all the notes white and black keys in order, usually from c to the next c above or below. As you can see on the picture below, all notes in the octave are included. Now its time to practice these scales in different keys. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. I have no ambitionsreasons to do piano grades so my teacher is focusing on teaching me technique. This multimedia ebook series contains hundreds of videos, audio clips. Chromatic harmony is a compositional technique interspersing the primary diatonic scales and diatonic chords with the chromatic scale.
How to play chromatic scale on piano with right hand. A chromatic scale is different than a regular scale because you play every white and black key. Chromatic country licks fundamental changes music book. The full series of exercises have a proven track record in improving technical skill, speed and precision stretching back well over a century. Read download piano scales arpeggios pdf pdf download. If you pick up your guitar or sit down at your piano and tap keys at random, youll be playing chromatically, and will probably notice that the results are not terribly musical. How to play a chromatic scale on the piano youtube. But whereas when we climb a ladder we need only focus on one rung at a time, a scale should be built. We can talk about a chromatic scale starting on c, for example. The pdf book is 105 pages in total and the printed version is 152 pages in total. In other lessons we have examined the mixolydian bebop scale, and saw that it is formed by adding an extra chromatic passing note between the b7 and root of the scale. Also, the whole pattern of note names repeats after every seven white notes. Instead, we identify chromatic scales by the note which they start on.