Scale playing covers the basic fingering in piano playing, and there are many tricks that we need to learn. Let me tell you the fingering tricks of piano scale playing. Welcome to read!

fingering tips for playing piano scales

1. General fingering of scales

This fingering refers to the same fingering rules (consistent fingering order) for playing different tonal scales. They include ten tonality (minor scale playing and harmony minor form, the same below) in C major, G major, D major, A major, E major, C minor, G minor, D minor, A minor and E minor. The fingering sequence of these ten tonality scales is one, two, three, one, two, three, four, five fingers of the right hand and five, four, three, two, one, three, two, one fingers of the left hand. The above fingering refers to the ascending scale fingering within an octave. If you continue to run for more than two octaves, switch one finger to the five fingers of your right hand.

second, black keys fingering in scales

This fingering is suitable for six tonal scales, namely bD major, bG major, B major and their relationship minor, bb minor, be minor and #g minor. Although the fingering of these six tonality scales are different, all six tonality tones contain five black keys, and the fingering of playing black keys is the same, and the fingering of playing white keys is also with the thumb.

Third, the special fingering of scales

There are seven fingering * * *, which belong to the playing of eight different tonal scales. Among these seven fingering methods, F major and F minor (with the same tonic tone) have the same fingering method, while the other six fingering methods belong to six tonal scales, namely bB major, bE major, bA major, B minor, #C minor and #f minor.

* among the above 24 scales, B major and bC major, #g minor and ba minor, bD major and #C major, bb minor and #a minor, bG major and #F major, be minor and #d minor are all equal tones.

refer to Hanon for scale fingering

Scale practice can be developed into four octaves of playing with both hands in the same direction, with four notes per beat (sixteenth note feeling), and practiced at the music speed of 6-1 beats per minute.

The specifications and standards of high-quality scale playing are:

1. Loose arms, beautiful hand shape, strict fingering, standardized fingering and straight running balance.

2. The sound is round and full, granular, elastic, beautiful in sound quality and balanced in strength.

3. The scales are even and coherent, fluent and free, with a sense of speed, rhythm and singing. Eight secrets of fingering

Secret 1: Find the fingering that suits your hands

Everyone's palm is different in size and shape, and the fingering marked on the music may suit him, but it may not suit you. Therefore, we must first have this concept, fingering, especially melody fingering, is not fixed or uniform, so don't cling to the fingering marked for you in the music score or book. A good fingering must be tailored to your hand shape, and it must be that your hand is not sour or tired, and your playing is smooth and natural. However, it is a pity that beginners need to accumulate experience to do this, especially to take a good look at the following points.

Tip 2: Short fingers play more long keys, while long fingers play more short keys

The short fingers are thumb (1 finger) and little finger (5 fingers), while the long fingers are index finger (2 fingers), middle finger (3 fingers) and ring finger (4 fingers).

When we say long key, we mean white key on the keyboard, and short key refers to black keys on the keyboard.

This secret is determined by the natural shape of the hand. Please see the following picture:?

fingers 4,3,2 of the left hand or fingers 2,3,4 of the right hand often stay on the black keys of F #, G # and A #, while the thumb and little finger stay on the white keys of E and C.

Chopin, a piano poet, often teaches his beginners this way, so that students can feel what it is like to have their hands spread naturally on the keyboard. One thing to note: is the title used? How much? These words, so this one is not absolute, but 8% of them are. For example, play black keys with your middle finger and try to avoid playing black keys with your thumb and little finger.

Tip 3: It is very important to memorize the fingering of scales

because many songs contain scales or parts of scales; At the same time, the fingering of scales is also easy to master, even regardless of various tonality, its fingering is almost the same, fixed and unified. In a word, when you find that there is a scale component in playing music, resolutely use your familiar scale fingering to get it easily!

Tip 4: broken chord fingering of left-handed accompaniment should be memorized skillfully

Like scales, broken chord's left-handed accompaniment has the same, fixed and repetitive characteristics (for example, 1353 2464 3575 461+6 ...), which is very easy to master. In addition, broken chord, a common left-handed accompaniment, appears in a large number of songs, which is very practical.

Tip 5: Symmetrical fingering of left and right hands

Our left and right hands are like mirror people, and they are relative. In music, we often encounter that the content played by the left and right hands is just the opposite (for example, the left hand plays 12345 and the right hand plays 54321). At this time, the fingering of both hands should be the same, so you don't have to delay more time to find the fingering.

Tip 6: Try to play a phrase with the same motivation with your own fixed fingering

If you find that you can play a high-frequency phrase with your own familiar fixed fingering in any key, you may feel a little unnatural, but as long as you don't stop, please stick to it in the future and don't need to explore other fingering, which can simplify your memory.

secret 7: five fingers, five colors

Chopin once said that all five fingers have different colors. For the same phrase, you may have different fingering, but the pop-up effect may be different!

Please try the following melody: first play it with 321 fingers of your right hand:

Then play it with 432 fingers of your right hand

Listen to it. Is there a sound difference? Please find the best way to deal with it! Sometimes we need to simplify our memory, but sometimes we want to think more about the sound effect.

tip 8: please write down your own fingering for beginners.

writing down your most suitable fingering is the best way for beginners to practice new music. Usually after solfeggio practice and finding your easiest fingering, please remember to mark your fingering on the score, so that you will be more naturally familiar with your fingering methods and quickly cultivate your fingering habits in the future. The best time to memorize music

For young children, the songs they learn are generally shallow, and they will memorize songs in a few bars or more quickly. Therefore, some teachers think that the repertoire assigned to children does not need special memory, and they will naturally recite the score when they play it well. Therefore, the problem of cultivating students' memorization at this stage is often ignored.

However, this method of memorizing music, which unconsciously relies on skillful playing, is actually an unconscious action memory. When the performance is interrupted due to some factors, it is impossible to continue the performance. This method not only takes a long time, but also has unsatisfactory back spectrum effect.