Transform your scale practice into artistry. Discover how alignment, coordination, and tone shape every phrase you play.

Scales are at the heart of every pianist’s training — but true mastery goes far beyond fast fingers. In this Focus Session, Rae shows how thoughtful scale practice builds both technical fluency and musical expression.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Coordinate your hands for evenness and freedom

  • Align the fingers and hand to reduce tension

  • Pass the thumb and cross the fingers with ease

  • Shape each scale musically, not mechanically

Discover how to turn everyday scale work into an elegant, expressive skill that supports all your repertoire.

Scales

    1. Overview

    2. Alignment, The Tetrachord Exercise

    3. Travelling Outwards, Travelling Inwards, Changing Direction

    4. Practising Scales, Chromatic Scales

    5. Gaining Speed, Fortissimo Scales, Summary

    6. Workouts

    7. Downloads

About this course

  • $9.00
  • Unlock the secrets to smooth, musical scale playing and go beyond mechanical drills. In this course, Dr. Rae de Lisle shows you how to achieve even tone, fluid coordination, and effortless movement across the keyboard.

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