Minor scales
With a partner playing the opposite hand, name and perform the harmonic minor scale with no sharps or flats in its key signature.
What is A harmonic minor?
With your team members (differentiate hands), name the notes in a g harmonic minor 2 octave arpeggio and play.
RH: 1-2-3-1-2-3-5
LH: 5-3-2-1-3-2-1
With your team, perform a G dominant 7th in both hands.
What is G-B-D-F?
Fill in the blank: When playing skills, you will never ---- fingers.
What is "skip"?
List all harmonic minor scales in group 1--how would you find the fingering for these?
What is a,d,g,c,e harmonic minor? Finger exactly like their parallel major scales.
With a partner playing the opposite hand, name and perform the harm. minor scale with 3 flats in its key signature.
What is C harmonic minor?
With your team members (differentiate hands), name the notes in a e harmonic minor 2 octave arpeggio and play.
RH: 1-2-3-1-2-3-5
LH: 5-3-2-1-3-2-1
With your team, perform a C fully dim. 7th in both hands.
What is C-Eb-Gb-Bbb?
Which finger is your "turn-around" finger? (hint: you should only play this at the end of a scale or arpeggio, if at all). Which scales on your jury do not utilize this finger?
What is your fifth finger? What is g#, c# and f# minor?
List all harmonic minor scales in group 2. These scales are fingered exactly like their parallel major scales with the exception of what finger? Why?
What is b and f minor? What is fourth finger? Raised because of leading tone.
With a partner playing the opposite hand, name and perform the minor scale with five sharps in its key signature.
What is g# harmonic minor?
With your team members (differentiate hands), name the notes in a c# harmonic minor 2 octave arpeggio and play.
RH: 4 (or 2)-1-2-4-1-2-4
LH: 2-1-4-2-1-4-2
With your team, play an E-flat half diminished 7th in both hands
What is Eb, Gb, Bbb, Db?
What fingering sequence do most scales follow? Which scale(s) on your jury does not use this fingering?
What is 1-2-3-1-2-3-4 (RH) or 5-4-3-2-1-3-2-1 (LH)? What is f harmonic minor?
Name all harmonic minor scales in group 3. Which finger MUST always play a black key? Explain how you would find the fingering for these scales in a jury.
What is b-flat, e-flat, and a-flat harmonic minor? What is fourth finger? Bb and Eb are fingered like their relative majors, Ab like its parallel major.
With a partner playing the opposite hand, name and play the minor scale with three sharps in its key signature.
What is f# harmonic minor?
With your team members (differentiate hands), name the notes in a b-flat harmonic minor 2 octave arpeggio and play.
RH: 4(or 2) -1-2-4-1-2-4
LH: 2-1-4-2-1-4-2
With your team (differentiate hands), play a C# minor 7th chord.
Which finger should you NEVER place on a black key when playing scales? Name all jury scales that begin with a black key.
What is your thumb? What is e-flat, b-flat, and a-flat harmonic minor?
Name all harmonic minor scales in group 4. Describe how you would find/start the fingering for each hand in a jury.
What is c# and f# harmonic minor?
LH is fingered like parallel major, RH is fingered like relative major.
With a partner, name all scale on the jury that begin with a black key, and choose one to play, dividing between hands.
What is e-flat, b-flat and a-flat harmonic minor?
"My relative major scale has three flats in its key signature."
With your team members (differentiate hands), name this minor arpeggio and play.
What is f# harmonic minor?
RH: 4-1-2-4-1-2-4
LH: 2-1-4-2-1-4-2
With your team (differentiate hands), play a B-flat half diminished 7th chord
What is Bb-Db-Fb-Ab?
When playing scales, which finger prefers to play black keys? Name at least two of these scales.
What is fourth finger? What is Bb, Eb, Ab, C# or F# harmonic minor?
For a WWW (or BBB) arpeggio, your LH would finger 5-3-2-1-3-2-1 (and the mirror of that in the RH). For a BWB arpeggio, your LH would play 2, 1-4-2-1 etc. so your thumb plays the white key (instead of a black).
There is ONE minor scale arpeggio that starts BBW (B-flat minor). How would you finger this arpeggio?
What is 4(or 3)-2-1-4(or 3)-2-1-2?