The “Peanuts” Piano Exercise: Scales, Chords & Inversions in One Daily Drill
Take the first 3 notes of a scale and practice them on the Piano in both hands with harmony & inversions. Remember your scales and improve your piano technique — posture and fingering — with a simple exercise using alternating notes with all five fingers. 🏫 Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ➡️ https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 00:00 - Performance 00:21 - Introduction 01:18 - Exercise using just 3 notes 01:52 - Moving Chromatically Up & Down 02:45 - Avoiding Flams along the way 03:53 - Whole Tone Motion 04:55 - Achieving all 12 Keys via Whole Tone Motion 05:14 - Whole Tone Scale from B 05:36 - Thirds Intervals 06:02 - Diminished 7th with Minor 3rds 06:43 - The Augmented Family of Major 3rds 07:22 - Planning for Thirds (Major & Minor) 07:36 - Diminished 7th Family 08:54 - Along the Circle of Fifths 09:42 - Clockwise Movement 10:27 - First 3 degrees to other Major-Esque scales 10:50 - Transforming to the Minor 11:18 - Practice of Thirds 11:44 - Diatonic vs Chromatic 13:14 - Minor Scale with Thirds 14:02 - Chords with their Inversions 15:29 - Horn Thirds Exercise 15:60 - Transposing to different chords 17:51 - Playing through all Keys 19:17 - Practice on other Inversions 20:06 - Revision of all variations ============================= 📹 Our Video Courses (Everything for Life Bundle) ➡️ https://learn-music.nathanielschool.com/ 🎹 Piano Courses & Private Lessons ➡️ https://piano.nathanielschool.com ============================= ▶️ Related Lessons & Playlists 🎵 Music Theory lessons ➡️ https://geni.us/PianoTheory 🎹 All our lessons on Chord Inversions (Playlist) ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT9ygtrGwGFmfyvMyGWH52EC 👂 Ear Training lessons ➡️ https://geni.us/EarTraining ============================= 🎓 Learn Music with Nathaniel School of Music & Jason Zac ➡️ https://nathanielschool.com 📚 All our YouTube lessons (1000+) by skill level, topic & genre ➡️ https://learning-portal.nathanielschool.com ============================= 💰 Donate on PayPal ➡️ https://geni.us/DonatePayPal 📸 Instagram ➡️ https://instagram.com/jasonzac 📞 Call +91 98454 65411 · 💬 WhatsApp chat +91 77604 56847 📧 Customised & Private Classes ➡️ music@nathanielschool.com 🎧 Listen to Jason Zac Music ➡️ https://riffs.jasonzacmusic.com/ #PianoExercise #PianoScales #ChordInversions
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