Whole Tone Scale Exercise: Accents, Time Signatures & 7#5/7b5 Chords
Learn how to play the Whole Tone Scale on the Piano with various rhythm patterns in the Left Hand using the 7♯5 and 7b5 chords. We develop 2 kinds of exercises. One uses a set of scales with all the family's roots and the other uses a variety of meters from 10/8 down to 1/8. We do this across one octave as well as 2 octaves. 🏫 Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ➡️ https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 00:00 - Performance 00:47 - Introduction 01:10 - Topics covered in the Lesson 02:30 - What is the Whole Tone Scale? 03:23 - The Symmetric Property 04:30 - The Family of B 05:34 - Set of 8 Ascending & Descending 05:50 - Chords in the Left Hand 07:15 - Crossing over logic 11:24 - D Whole Tone 13:32 - E Whole Tone 14:50 - F# Whole Tone 16:08 - Ab Whole Tone 17:49 - Bb Whole Tone 18:42 - Playing on Multiple Time Signatures 19:23 - 10/8 19:57 - 9/8 20:15 - 8/8 or 4/4 23:09 - The Whole Tone Challenge 24:22 - Piano Practice Tips & Goals 25:09 - Practicing in a tougher environment 26:02 - Playing with Purpose ============================= 📹 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/ #WholeToneScale #OddTimeSignatures #PianoExercises
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