How to Play a Written D Scale on Piano

Video Transcript

"Now, we're going to take a look at our D Major scale as it falls written down. If we take a look at the music here, you have two sharps, that's how you know you're in D Major, two sharps. D falls right below this line, bottom line on the staff. Each line and space represents and different note on the scale. So, we go up one, two, three, four, five six, seven, and then you're at D again right here. We'll go up even further for you. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. Again, I want to really stress that what you're reading is a pattern inside of this and really all your sharps and flats are notated over here. If you take a look at, say, D Flat Major, notice D Flat starts right on the same spot and we have the exact same one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. But, now instead of two sharps we have five flats. So, we're reading an entirely different pattern. It's not really the notes that we're looking at it's the pattern. That's what I really, really want to stress to you is that we're reading inside this D Major pattern and you that you really have to get that D Major scale pattern under your fingers. You might have to click back to the last video and really memorize it because we're going to use it throughout this entire video session."