The main benefit of scales is to learn common fingerings. Most music is made from scales, so practicing scales in isolation will bake in the correct fingerings for many common sequences of notes. It will also mean that you have exposure to "odd" keys, which makes you a more rounded player.
Once you get to a certain level of proficiency, you can just "hear" scales and you don't need to practice them any more (aside from for warmups and physical training). However beginners don't have the advantage of this ability.
Jazz pianist here, I also strongly disagree that scales are useless. I had 90 minute classical piano lessons once a week from 6 years old to 16, 30 minutes of that learning scales, which in later years includes contrary motion, arpeggios etc. I'm so grateful my teacher put in the time! I practised them every day until my 30s. There's nothing better for feeling where in your hand you're rusty, always trying to make them sound as musical and even as possible. Also when you do them regularly, you can feel when certain hand movements are more difficult or rougher than usual - they're the best way of knowing exactly where you're at physically.
Not sure what you mean "you can just 'hear' scales". "You don't need to practice them any more"...except for the main reason you play them, for "warmups and physical training"? i.e. you do need to practice them. Or at least, they're the best thing to practise, I've found.
The first few years, they're so your fingers naturally play good fingerings on most things without having to think about it, and finger muscle training. After that, they're for, I guess, warming up and what I'd call more maintaining and recovering peak muscle condition than "training". 5 minutes of very fast, musical-as-possible scales and unless in peak form, your arms are falling off with muscle fatigue hehe.
Also I went through Liszt's book once and wrote down the exercises I found the most difficult, and practiced them for years. Also learnt Ravel's LH Concerto to strengthen my left hand.. But scales always.
> Not sure what you mean "you can just 'hear' scales". "You don't need to practice them any more"...except for the main reason you play them, for "warmups and physical training"? i.e. you do need to practice them. Or at least, they're the best thing to practise, I've found.
Beginners will learn the "D major" scale or a "E harmonic minor" as separate units.
Whereas advanced players have the hand-ear coordination to think of "a major scale" as being a 'sound' (intervalic sequence) that can be transposed to any key. For me, it's much more important to be able to sing a particular scale pattern, once I can sing it then I can play it on any instrument that I have proficiency at.
For physicality/warmups, the kinds of scales that I like to practice are symmetric scales (e.g. chromatic, diminished, wholetone, etc). When practicing scales for physicality it's especially beneficial to use the metronome.
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If China were to supplement Russia's weaponry it could entail NATO treating those as fair targets inside Ukraine or Russia.
As of Sunday evening China is not aware of this FT WAPO published disinformation request.. latter my view on these reports.
Interesting as bargain. Maibenben(Chinese) mini computer AMD Ryzen 5 Vega graphics, ssd, more ports than usual desktop. Using Budgie Ubuntu Linux FAST AS HELL! $400 OR LESS (newegg.)One 8GB Corsair(?!) Sodimm add another yourself in other slot. 4K video outputs. Boots 12 seconds. 4 cores 8 threads There two more generations of AMD CPUs yah separate video cards "gamer setups" sure. But for the price nothing close till $550! Think Chinese want dollars. $439 at moment. Chip 14 months old they have more recent AMD chip models. Bluetooth dual WiFi one is 5G for more.
Really surprised me how fast it is. Never been on one as fast- fast enough for me- rare.
little trouble setting bios to boot off AMD disc cause of UEFI.
I Booted into windows 10 sign on then used Windows reboot outside UEFI choice. Set bios to boot off DVD and used legacy where available in bios. Install disk Ubuntu Budgie says something failed along way but let it Go and it continues & completes install in short time.
As usual installing AMD video driver has bug in kernel 20.04 but google it and the error solution comes up actually works. Latter optional as Ubuntu installed drivers just fine.
