Beginner piano lesson on how to form Major scales.

If you are a beginner at the piano then before you understand anything about how to play chord you need to understand how to form scales. Scales are the absolute foundation to your piano playing and though it seems boring you really need to know it if you are going to understand the rest of what you will be learning. So basically the Major scale is formed using a simple formula, If you take any note on the keyboard like for instance C. You can count a certain formula up and it will make up the scale for C.

The scale you are playing in also is what key the song is being played in, so if you are playing in the key of C then that means the song is made up of the notes in the C scale. And that goes for any note on the piano. So how do you form a scale well it is basically by using this formula.

Whole step
Whole step
Half Step
Whole step
Whole step
Whole step
Half Step.

Now this is how you count up any major scale, and a what a half step is is basically the distance between any two notes. That is black notes or white notes, so the distance between E and F is a half step.
And the distance between C and D is a whole step. So if you count up using that formula from the note C the scale will be formed like this.

C D E F G A B C

And that is how you form any major scale, and from these scales you will be able to form chords using the scale major and minor. So try and memorize each scale of of every note of the piano.

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