The pentatonic scale is frequently used in lots of popular music styles. List of all natural minor scales there are 12 natural minor scales. Minor scales are built on the 6th scale degree of a major scale. You need to understand something right away to be a piano or keyboard player. We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the. Public domain the scales are broken down into 6 groups.
Before learning how to build these scales here is a reminder of tones and semitones. To learn how to play other piano scales, such as major, minor,chromatic and pentatonic scales, visit our main piano scales page. This type of scale has five notes per octave unlike a heptatonic scale which has seven notes. Select landscape mode to get best results printing it out. In this guide, we will cover piano scales in depth and cover all major scales, minor scales, tones, semitones, chromatic scales briefly. Nov 18, 2008 you can printout the pdf below which is all major scale for practise at the piano. Every scale determines a key,that is an harmonic combunation of tones based on that scale. The pentatonic scale, major and minor free piano lessons. Natural minor scales sheet music for piano download free. This page shows piano and treble clef diagrams of all minor scales, starting from note c. Each scale has a different use and application in jazz piano. Download free printable sheet music for the scale with fingering in pdf format. Piano scales exercises practice scales with both hands. There are both pentatonic major and minor the minor is slightly more often used.
Natural minor scales sheet music for piano download free in pdf. Download free piano sheet music for major, minor harmonic, and minor melodic scales for all keys. Major pentatonic scale the major pentatonic scale shares five notes with the major scale. As students by now should be familiar with most scales and arpeggios learnt in the last four grades, only new scales will be featured here. Free major and minor scales for piano sheet music dion moult.
Remember that for the melodic minor scale, when descending, you play the natural minor scale. Note that a minor pentatonic has identical notes with c major pentatonic but in different order. All the scales here are in one octave, but you can of course practice each piano scale in as many octaves and in any tempo you like. Major scale fingerings harmonic minor scale fingerings pdf thanks. Playing scales on piano has the added benefit of encouraging visual memory. I have purchased the lightning fast piano scales book on my kindle. Building piano scales major, minor, etc in all keys. We provide downloads for common scales including major, the three minor scales natural, harmonic, and melodic, the blues scale, and others. Welcome to this lesson on strategies to learn scales the easy way.
Learn how to play piano chords, notes, scales, proper finger. Natural, harmonic, and melodic forms margaret denton, piano minor scales. Bellingham music teachers association scale and arpeggio fingering chart for piano major and minor scales and arpeggios two octaves chromatic scale. Minor scales cheat sheet harmonic minor raise the 7th scale degree melodic minor raise the 6th and 7th scale degree ascending, revert to natural minor descending. Piano scales 12 major keys with standard fingering author. There are other types of scales that advanced piano students may wish to study, including harmonic and melodic. They provide a pool of notes for you to choose from when improvising and set the foundations for further modal scale. Printable piano music scales in all major and harmonic minor keys.
Even more advanced piano students can get into the lesserknown scales. Print and download in pdf or midi natural minor scales. Cs relative minor pentatonic scale, a minor pentatonic, begins on the 6 th scale degree of the major pentatonic scale shown above. In classical music, you play the true melodic minor scale ascending and the natural minor scale descending. Melodic minor scales jyttes piano sheet collection. The main scales of western music are major and minor scales. Like major scales, minor scales have eight notes, with the top and bottom tonic notes. Harmonic minor scale and chords, natural and melodic minor. Minor scales are no less important or smaller in size than major scales.
How many musical scales are there the complete guide. You can printout the pdf below which is all major scale for practise at the piano. Examples of heptatonic scales are the major scale and the minor scale. Printable piano music scales for beginners online piano coach. It ascends or descends for one octave using the major scale s key signature. The melodic minor scale differs from the natural minor scale by the sixth and seventh notes, which are raised a semistep. List of all natural minor scales piano music theory.
Download our piano scale finger charts for the major scale, harmonic minor scale and more. Jan 10, 2016 here are your downloadable pdfs for major and harmonic minor scales. In this video lesson well be going over how to learn and drill in scales in the fastest way possible. May 31, 2016 there are a total of 12 major scales and 12 minor natural scales in music.
Jazz piano basics practice guide pdf practice plans. The pentatonic scale pentatonic scales have only five notes penta means five. Every scale is explaned with its fingering, with the standar finghers numbering for right and left hand. However when ascending the 6th and 7th tones are raised half a step. The two scales you use most frequently when you play the piano and the most famous scales in western music are the major and the minor scales.
Scales are the fundamentals of any piano learning course. Minor scales cheat sheet harmonic minor raise the 7 th scale degree melodic minor raise the 6 th and 7 th scale degree ascending, revert to. The only difference is that the tonic first note of the scale of the minor pentatonic is 3 semitones half steps below the tonic of. Here are your downloadable pdf s for major and harmonic minor scales. Beginner piano scales will introduce you to the triad chords of that minor scale, and help you practice rhythm in 68 time. After i give you the fundamentals, ill give you a continue reading scales made easy psh. But in jazz, we play the true melodic minor scale both up and down, and call it the jazz melodic minor scale. All minor scales illustrated with pictures including notes and fingerings. Major scales and key signatures s o, now you can use the letters a through g to name notes on the treble and bass staff and accidentals to create major and minor seconds, aka, whole and half steps if you cant do this yet, stop here, go back to the previous chapters, and practice until you can. The natural minor scale is easy to compare with the major scale when using scale degrees. The natural minor scale is often referred to simply as the minor scale. You can make a major and a minor scale starting with any note on the piano.
For a compilation of all scales and arpeggios, click on the links below all major scales all minor scales. D minor pentatonic has the same notes as f major pentatonic and so. These make great handouts for piano teachers to use with students. Free printable pdf downloads with notes and fingerings for scales in every key. By far, the standard book of technique exercises is hanon the virtuoso pianist. This scale is also some kind of peculiar since it is sometimes played differently ascending and descending. Piano street subject digital piano score scales in all major keys. We offer a collection of free printable piano scale sheets in pdf format. The major and minor scales are an essential step in learning jazz piano. Here they are, printable with fingering and study guide. Go from piano blues scales to piano lessons piano keyboard home page. All keys are shown, including the commonly used 12 keys of the circle of fifths diagram, and other theoretical ie. Natural, harmonic and melodic forms about minor scales. The first mode of the melodic minor scale isthe melodic minor scale.
Jan 17, 2017 the best way to practice all major scales is by using the circle of fifths. The minor pentatonic scale consists of the same 5 notes of the major pentatonic. Next in our lesson on piano scales we take a look at the melodic minor scale. For example, the relative minor of c is a minor, and the notes which form c major pentatonic and a minor pentatonic are the same. Major, minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, pentatonic major, pentatonic minor, pentatonic blues, pentatonic read more. Includes fingering annotation and typeset in latex, exported in pdf format. Print and download in pdf or midi piano major scales fingerings.
The most common types of scale are major scales, minor scales and the blues scale. We call scales relative if they share the same key signature. If you dont want notes, here are picture scales with all the major scales plus fingering for each hand. Print and learn piano music scales with fingering in all major and minor keys. Minor scales sound different from major scales because they are based on a. My number one recommendation on this site for learning how to play the piano is piano for all. Major and natural minor scales are the building blocks of learning to play the piano. Perhaps you also notice that it is a sort of merging between the natural minor and harmonic minor regarding their relative major scales.
I know the beginning of the video is a little dry, but its important. Harmonic minor scale fingerings pdf best piano tips. You can learn how to form other melodic and harmonic minor scales at our main piano music scales section. This minor scale also begins on the 6th degree of the relative major scale. Piano fingering chart washington state music teachers association. Piano major scales fingerings sheet music for piano. My interactive pentatonic scales chart for piano shows fingering diagrams for both pentatonic major and pentatonic minor scales. Melodic minor modes and altered scale the jazz piano site.
Scales, arpeggios and cadences, two octaves margaret denton, piano major scales, arpeggios, and cadences, 2 octaves these scales are arranged pianistically by groups according to fingering patterns to facilitate memorization harmonic form of the minor scale is shown. In addition, you should of course practice scales with your left hand, but in that case, you use some other fingerings. Here ive organised them in groups of fingering rather than keys. The difference between these two scales is the pattern of.
The descending form of a melodic minor scale involves lowering the sixth and seventh scale degrees a half step to their original pitches i. Download our free pdf versions of each scale with fingering. There are 3 groups and its easier to learn a particular finger pattern and apply it to the group rather than learn each scale separately. Each scale is provided as a separate pdf download with finger numbers above each note. For a scale to be in the natural minor, scale degrees 3, 6, and 7 will all be played at a semitone lower than they would be in the major scale. In harmonic minor scales, the seventh scale degree note is raised by just a half step.
The circle of fifths is a very useful diagram which shows us what keys are most closely related to each other. If you need staff paper, you may print the staff paper12 pdf file. For example, c major bebop scale includes the same notes as in both a natural minor and a harmonic minor. C major scale g major scale d major scale a major scale e major scale b major scale f major scale bb major scale eb major scale ab major scale db major scale gb major scale. Single octave natural minor scales with fingerings for piano. Heres a diagram of the melodic c minor scale on piano. Barbara murphy university of tennessee school of music major and minor scales half and whole steps. Piano major scales fingerings for people that start to study piano and need a complete guide to scales. Learn the melodic minor scale for piano in every key. The scale in all keys can be downloaded as a pdffile. I am looking for volunteers to translate this book into any language. Of the three types of minor scales, the natural minor is the easiest to understand.
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