For the beginner, your scales are your first ever drill, and the foundations of your foundations. For the intermediate player, knowing your scales is good, but completely understanding them inside and out will have tons of applications to your sheet music— especially in classical and jazz. Advanced players, you already know how important these are, use these videos to test your knowledge and perhaps gain a perspective educate your own students with. Enjoy practicing your major scales! -PJ

Over the next 12 weeks, the students at Verner Elementary School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama will learn how to read music and play the piano. Each week they will cover a new topic in their lesson groups, culminating in a spring piano recital at The University of Alabama’s own Moody Music Building recital hall. This material is the exact method they will learn and practice… from finding their first note, to playing chords and scales. Please use this material to practice at home. No keyboard req’d