![]() ![]() When I practice scales there are days I start with one run up and down a scale pattern. So I’d advise also exploring 4ths, 5ths, and melodic sequences. But practicing only that would probably make you a very tedious player. You’re training your fingers, mental maps and musical imagination. If you practice playing scales in 3rds you are training yourself to play more melodically, naturally finding the chord tones and extensions of the names you land on. Melodies generally follow chord tones, and chord tones are (mostly) stacked in 3rds. But if you want to practice scales in a way that might help you make melodic statements, I recommend practicing scales in intervals. It can also help develop your time feel and subdivisions. Using a metronome can be very helpful for developing the synchronicity of your two hands, and can help (to a lesser extent) with the mapping and mental pattern development. If you want to practice scales in a way that might help you make melodic statements, I recommend practicing scales in intervals I did that for years too, but if I could take all those thousands of hours back and focus on making music instead, I would, in a heartbeat. But I know you see people playing scales up and down with a metronome. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would recommend using the major scale for this, paying attention to the sounds and intervallic relationships in the scales.īut exploring in this way is more like improvising within a framework of a scale, and exploring, trying things out, and listening. If you want to express ideas you hear in your musical imagination then practicing scales can help build a map for your fingers to find the sounds that you hear. ![]()
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