Chord and scale together

This last section of this lesson enables you to put both your hands together, playing our newly learned scales and chords, F, E and B.

We are going to practise playing a major scale in the right hand, using quarter notes, and a chord in the left hand, using whole notes. Before you begin going through each note, make sure that you know what you are doing:

Run through it mentally first.
Think about each hand and the notes involved.
Memorise the names of the notes involved.
Remember also the correct fingering.
Try to remember how it should sound and remember to play in time as well!

There is a huge amount to think about and you have done remarkably well to get this far; taking on a lot of knowledge as well as teaching your body how to play the scales and form the chords.

The exercises that follow (numbered 13, 14 and 15) are for F, E and B respectively. Make full use of the supportive multimedia.

Exercise 13

Alternative fingering of scale of F

Exercise 14

Exercise 15

Next: Developing all natural major triads and scales