How to Practice Scales (It's Not What You Think)
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Peter Martin
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Peter, what do you know about this? |
| 0:10.7 | Hey, man, we're talking about practicing scales, not having fun. |
| 0:14.3 | Oh, it's not what you think. I'm Adam Manus. |
| 0:30.8 | And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast. |
| 0:32.3 | Daily music advice coming at you. |
| 0:34.9 | Coming at you back on YouTube. |
| 0:36.6 | Back on. |
| 0:37.0 | Don't make me nervous there there there |
| 0:39.9 | yeah there they are they're like you know they're coming in on us i knew you know how i knew we were back |
| 0:43.9 | on youtube today how did you know you put the hat back i got my youtube hat i'm just i'm rolling the same |
| 0:47.8 | podcast styles but we do invite uh our over one million podcast list well Well, over one million downloads. |
| 0:54.6 | It's a big statement right there. Over to YouTube. You know, I think a lot of you know that, but we're coming over for selected episodes. Yeah. And what we're really trying to do is highlight the overhead, not the overhead, the light-up keyboard. The light-up keyboard. The hammer 88s, V style. Flying V Hammer 88s. Okay. We're going to go Kitar at some point. |
| 0:51.6 | We're going Ketar. |
| 0:52.4 | Not with the Hammer 8. |
| 0:53.3 | No, they're heavy A.F. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. V-style. Flying V, Hammer 88s. Okay. We're going to go Ketar at some point. |
| 1:11.3 | We're going Ketar. |
| 1:12.1 | Not with the Hammer 88s. No, they're heavy A-F. Yeah. So today we're talking about how to practice scales. This sounds terrible. This sounds boring A-F. But it's not. And, you know, scale practice should be a part of every improvisers practice routine because it can be so crucial to being able to understand |
| 1:30.0 | the theory behind what you're playing, but also just give you some, like, technical chops to get |
| 1:35.2 | around all keys, to get around any changes. It's super important. Yes. It's, it's, you know, |
| 1:40.9 | for every instrument, you know, we even went over some additional, maybe we'll do a bonus thing somewhere on a later episode or whatever, just for piano. Well, we actually, we think we've nailed this to ways to practice that'll work for every instrument. That's right. You know, we've been called experts on trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, but we shy away from that because we don't consider ourselves experts on those instruments. Do we? |
| 2:01.2 | Definitely not. |
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