Piano fingering

[foly]

Hello,

I've just started to play piano, I learned about how to read notes and some things about (the) music theory. I also started to practise some songs (very easy ones ofcourse) but I had some problems with piano fingering. I found this site for proper piano fingering: https://www.audiblefaith.com/artists/rharrell/music/pianoscales.html and I tried to play this music by using the F major scale: https://www.8notes.com/scores/525.asp?view=full&ftype=gif.

My questions:

How should I use this fingering scale? In the song I posted I need to play C A B G A, which means (according to that F major scale) I should cross my ring finger (4) over my pointer finger (2) (from B to G) which I think is pretty impossible to do fluently even though I got pretty long fingers. Should I just bypass this problem by playing the G with my thumb and the next A with my pointer finger or should I practise the crossing because it is possible?

I saw some more difficult some sheet music and I watched how people play it on youtube, it seems like it's pretty hard to follow fingering scales when the song is more complicated. Should I just use these scales when ascending or descending?

Do you got any tips for me for proper piano fingering/piano playing?


I'm sorry if I'm unclear, English isn't my mother tongue and it's kinda difficult to ask the right questions.

[quantum]

Fingering is specific to the passage not the scale or key.  The standard scale fingerings are for playing scales, you would use them for playing the actual scales.  However, when you play a piece of music in a particular key, you need to come up with a fingering that suits the passages in the piece.  They do not have to fit the fingering of the scale. 

BTW the example piece you gave is in D minor (relative minor of F major).  From bar 5-8 RH you could use 24 54 231 2. 

[foly]

Thanks a lot, this makes things much better.

Sorry for that mistake, as a beginner I shouldn't be saying things I'm not sure of. How do you know if its F major or D minor, those scales look a lot like each other.

[larapool]

Thanks a lot, this makes things much better.

Sorry for that mistake, as a beginner I shouldn't be saying things I'm not sure of. How do you know if its F major or D minor, those scales look a lot like each other.

No need to apologize!  Without getting too deep into music theory, we know it's a song in D minor by looking at the chords used.  Also, we can easily see that the piece begins and ends on D, which is one of the first things you look for when finding the key of a piece.

And yes, they do look a lot like each other - because they have the same notes!  F major is what we call a the relative major of D minor, and D minor is the relative minor of F major - they're relatives of one another because they both share the same notes, though they start on different notes.

Also, just by using your ear, Scarborough Fair is a bit of a sad sounding piece - you wouldn't expect a major key to sound melancholy