Scale Up Your Piano Skills! Pentascales 1(a) C G D A E B F major

Scale Up Your Students' Piano Skills!

This is the first in a series of scale workbooks for any music student. It is a resource for all of the white keys on the piano.

Pentascales are a fantastic introduction to scales for any beginner. Included in the booklet is a Pentascale Hack that can be used by students to help them remember the order of the Tones/Semitones or Whole/Half Steps, resulting in a successful result.

Students first write out the letters of the scale without any sharps/flats, use the Pentascale Hack to figure out where the Whole/Half steps always a

re, colour the keyboard keys, fill in the accidentals where needed. Students the play the scale (RH, LH, HT) and are encouraged to improvise in that key.