scale studies

[sonata76]

hi,im just wondering if anyone knows of a piano study which involves mainly scale runs.i think it would make scale practice more interesting as it is like a piece.i havent found one yet so any ideas.thanx

[henrah]

I would also like this. Pieces anyone?

Or why not compose your own composition of mainly scales? It would make it far more enjoyable than just learning a piece with scales in.

[robertp]

There may be others around, but  here's the one I know:

Concone Op. 37 "24 Brilliant Preludes"

Last time I checked, Schirmer's edition was still in print.

[qoppa]

The first movement of Beethoven's Sonata in G major, Op.49 No.2 has a good number of scales in both hands.  SheetMusicFox has the piece as usual.

[tibi]

czerny op299 is best to start on this. hope it can helps you. you can download it on www.sheetmusicarchive.net.

[swim4ever_22]

Instead of looking for "scale studies", why don't you just find pieces that have scale runs in them, as others have suggested. This not only allows you to work on scales, but adds a piece to your repertoiry. A piece that immediately comes to mind is Mozart's Sonata K.545.

Hope this helps.

[henrah]

...and then modulate that piece or section to a different key to practice different key scales!

I still think composing your own piece of scales would be better and more enjoyable. I did the same for cross-handed arpeggio playing and ended up with modulations similar to those in Take A Bow by Muse from their new album Black Holes & Revelations. I think it's switching between a major arpeggio and it's dominant minor in third inversion, i.e. moving the 3rd and 5th up a semitone. I do this on the return, so up the keyboard I play - say - Eb major, then on the return I change the G and Bb to G# and Bnatural. Then from there go into Emajor.

[tuckerkao]

I have created a new set of unique scales that focus on harmonic modulations. I arranged the basic scales in a consecutive orders so all the possible chords in a group are repesented one by one with different inverted configurations on every key.

The scales can never be a nice sounded piece harmonically without further development. With more details and varieties added in, the piece then becomes an Etude.

There are sheet music pdfs and mp3 audio on my topic page. Each measure represents a complete chord with a specific inverted configuration that scattered on the single running notes.

Here's an experiment you can do. After printed the pdf, use scissors to cut each measure into a puzzle piece. Try to rematch the segments in the compatible ways, so the musical phrases will sound connected and flow smoothly. Like the real puzzles, only certain pieces can be fit in together correctly.

I'm still working on the library of my scales. I got 432 unique chord segments so far. I plan to get over 2,000.

My topic link is below

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,21360.0.html

[overscore]

I practice all the major and natural minor scales each day. To take the drudgery out of it, I improvise something with the other hand - even just simple broken chords makes it a lot more interesting and more like music. It's also a good way of becoming well acquainted with chords, and a repetitive broken chord accompianiment kinds of acts as a human metronome too. Or I play a five note scale with one hand and a full octave scale with the other, and randomly change the rhythm or tempo - anything to try and 'trick me up' and keep my mind engaged.

I have only played for a year, but I would never abandon playing scales in favour of pieces of music with scale passages.