Sign-Up: Improve your Scales in Two Weeks!

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Sign me up.  It's about time I start using my membership here :). And it looks like a fun challenge.

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Looking forward to this!  Great to see the enthusiastic group.

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I love to sign up too! Everyone needs to master Scale :-)

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Thank you so much! Very excited!

I have been away from home doing different things for most of the last three weeks so sorry not to sign up for this but I can see that you have over 140 people already as I saw the live stream yesterday.

It will be so useful to see others being taught on the scales so not participating in the actual teaching is not a problem.  

I am using some alternative fingerings for scales taken from Penelope Roskell, which I haven't extended to 'scales in thirds' to date , but which I shall now do. 

I did not practise scales very much in the past and with no clear methodology.  My first objective with scales when I joined TB was to play all of the scales, 2 octaves, parallel motion, hands together, which I now do, with the exception of the melodic minors. 

The melodic minors are the same as the harmonic (1-5 going up) and the same as the major (4-8 again going up).  The melodic minor is the same as the relative major on the way down but starting a minor third lower. 

I am with Martha Argerich on this one [joke!], who said she only practises the minor passages within her repertoire and not the minor scales.  I think this is because it is very unlikely that the melodic and harmonic minors ever come entirely in those forms in compositions.  The minor sections are usually a mixture of both forms of minor and the modal. [This thesis is likely to have been addressed in numerous PhDs in the past, none of which I have read]  

NB: I did not apply this approach to the flute, of course, as that would not have worked in examinations!   

I now try to go through all the harmonic minors as much as possible.  I am going to use the suggestion from Dominic Cheli  of 25% of the practise time going forward - half an hour in two hours, etc.  I tend to avoid pieces if I have very little time to practise - just playing scales instead, which I may try to adjust going forward but I am making up for lost time with scales, so I am happy to continue like that for now, but I take the point that I should be developing more repertoire pieces.

I only do parallel motion at the moment so I shall reduce the number of scales practised each week but include thirds and contrary motion. 

I shall start with the live stream on scales from Dominic Cheli , which I missed when it was live.

Enough for now!

Have a terrific 2-weeks! 

I would like to join! This group gives me hope to master the coda of the Chopin Ballade #1 in g minor.