https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:26:58 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110856 Wed, 13 Jul 2005 02:44:13 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Ignar Hillström https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110856 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110809 Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:06:23 +0000 http://www.looknohands.com]]> Guitar Players Discussion AzraelDrah https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110809 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110640 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:53:01 +0000 All the white keys form either the C Major or A Minor Scale, depending on what note you focus on (and A Harmonic Minor is pretty easy to do as well). I love sitting down with a keyboard (it seems that we always had a few laying aroung the house) and just playing with chord shapes and what not.
I don't know of any good piano websites, but just try to figure things out by ear. Play In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda with an organ tone- just hold down a few notes with one hand to give it that organ drone, and just mess around with the main riff. If you make a mistake, it's all good, because that song is pretty much chromatic- I can't find out what scale it fits (given my limited scale knowledge anyways).
But I encourage anyone to try to pick up a keyboard or piano and mess around with it. Heck, if you're into composing songs, I think it would be much easier to play the chords on piano to get it right and then move to the guitar. It's a refreshing break from guitar every once in a while, and it may help you come up with ideas to use on the guitar.
Just my thoughts, I know Iron Butterfly is not jazz. . . :wink:]]> Guitar Players Discussion briank https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110640 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110536 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:14:02 +0000
/me starts memorizing...

Thanks for your help.]]> Guitar Players Discussion andrewlubinus89 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110536 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110463 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:11:25 +0000
The thing about guitar that makes patterns possible is the chromatic layout - a note on any fret on the 6th string will have the note a perfect fourth higher on the same fret of the 5th string, no matter what key you're in. That distance is five half steps, and that's also true on the piano. But on the piano, sometimes that distance is from white key to white key (C-F), sometimes it's black key to black key (Eb-Ab), sometimes it's white key to black key (F-Bb), and sometimes it's black key to white key (F#-B). The layout of piano keys within an octave isn't symmetrical - the pattern only repeats after the entire octave is finished - so every scale has a different fingering.]]> Guitar Players Discussion NoteBoat https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110463 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110461 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:02:22 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Taso https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-110461 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-10158 Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:20:21 +0000
I am learning piano and guitar simultaneosly and I was learning the basic jazz scales. I was wondering what the technique was for learning scales on the piano. Do you memorize every scale in every key? Do you learn patterns like on the guitar? Thanks,

Also I realize this is somewhat OT so what would be a more appropriate forum to post this in? Is there a piano site somewhere out that as useful as guitarnoise?

Peace..]]> Guitar Players Discussion andrewlubinus89 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/somewhat-ot-piano-scales/#post-10158