{"id":105,"date":"2018-09-07T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T19:48:11","slug":"how-to-play-any-major-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/how-to-play-any-major-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Play Any Major Scale On The Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scales might be the most important thing you learn as a piano player<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning scales allows us to understand how to play in any and all keys. Scales also help us to develop keyboard familiarity, dexterity, speed, and so much more. To become great at scales you need to be able to practice them &#8211; and to practice them you need to understand how they are made.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve made it really easy for you! Here is the formula that will allow you to create any major scale:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/s\/z4har5yco6qku0q\/major-scale-formula.png?dl=0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me explain. Every major scale follows that formula. A specific order of whole and half steps.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A half step is the distance from one note to the very next note. So, for example, C to C# is a half step. Two halves make a whole so C-D is a whole step! Use the above order of whole steps and half steps and you are able to pick any note on the piano and create a major scale.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It really is that simple. You never have to guess at the notes again.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/weekly-email\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn the major scale formula and play any major scale on the piano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,510],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scales-keys","category-theory","tag-7dsr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11051,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/11051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}