Hello ....could anyone please tell me the fingering for grade 3 scales Eflat major and Bflat major.....
Cheeres Mike

Bb major right hand starts with finger 2. left hand finger 3

Ebmajor right hand starts with finger 2. left handfinger 3

Thanks very much I can start on that tomorrow....
How will I ever remember all these scales...
BFN Mike

QUOTE (PlinkPlonkMan @ Jan 16 2005, 11:28 PM)

Thanks very much I can start on that tomorrow.... How will I ever remember all these scales... BFN Mike

by practising them till your brain turns to cream cheese. cream cheese is very retentive of scales

why dont u get a scale book?

i cant read scales from music, it confuses me!

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i cant read scales from music, it confuses me!

Nat - I reckon this is not unusual.

I don't always teach from the scale books. They can be useful as a more detailed checklist than the list in the front of the exam book. Adults are sometimes happy to work on their own with scales using the book. But you are certainly not alone.

Many of my pupils find it more useful to learn scales by rote, starting small. One of the problems with the books (for piano) is that you get the whole thing in one two-stave two-octave gloop. You can pick out one octave to learn, but the look of the complete thing can still be a bit off-putting.

And young children find the print rather small and rather close. But I find by about grade 5 that the books are more difficult to do without.

If you persevere, you should find it helps your sight-reading!

Maggie

*nods* yup I'm with maggie AND nat just to be confusing: scales are hard (in some ways) to read or learn from music, BUT it is a useful skill to be able to, and some of the harder ones I would never have managed without the scale book.

i do have the scale books etc, but i mostly find it easier not to use them. for some of the harder ones i do look in the book for the fingerings etc. i buy the scale books mainly incase of an emergency!

Hello thanks for the replies ...I may buy a scale book but I do like to work them out for myself so it reinforces what I'm learning.....it's just the fingering sometimes. I would ask my teacher but I am doing my grade two first in Feb/Mar 05....so don't bother her with the grade three stuff until I move on to it with her.
Thanks again.........kind regards.........Mike

QUOTE (sarah-flute @ Jan 17 2005, 12:37 AM)

QUOTE (PlinkPlonkMan @ Jan 16 2005, 11:28 PM) Thanks very much I can start on that tomorrow.... How will I ever remember all these scales... BFN Mike by practising them till your brain turns to cream cheese. cream cheese is very retentive of scales

I was always taught to remember where to put the fourth fingers in each scale, and usually the rest of the fingering is determined by that. It's only used once per octave in each hand.

In Bb Major: right hand 4 on Bb; left hand 4 on Eb.
In Eb Major: right hand 4 on Bb; left hand 4 on Ab.

it gets a bit more complex I have found to work out fingerings like that when you get to the flat minors - especially melodics no way I could have learned those without a scale book.

i still prefer learning melodics without a book!

maybe im weird!

...there's no answer to that...

i'll take that as a " yes nat you are weird!"

I am buying the scales and arpeggios book.
Thanks for help
BFN Mike