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| Feb 13, 2015 at 18:50 | comment | added | amalgamate | The skills gained from practicing scales are like the skills needed to compete in an Olympic event. You can always get better at scales and top yourself no matter how good you are and thus it is always worth striving to do so if you have the least motivation to be a better musician. | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 18:17 | comment | added | Sanchises | @200_success The point is that, while you may be able to recite the alphabet from beginning to start easily, you may not be able to recite it backward, with arbitrary intervals, and recognize these intervals in arbitrary words. Besides, the main focus of a musician is not on practicing scales, so I dare say that any musician agrees that they perhaps could practice them some more. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 16:18 | comment | added | amalgamate | @200_success Yes you can get these skills from certain pieces of music, but not all pieces of music will convey these skills so strongly and completely as scales will. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 16:07 | comment | added | amalgamate | @200_success And strength and flexibility and also it is a practice multiplier. The metaphor of the ABCs is limited. Knowledge of the ABC's is kind of one dimensional, but in music we need to need to know it backwards and forwards and upside down with a metronome singing it in your head, thinking about the notes not thinking about the notes, thinking about your fingers, skipping notes, rolls and patterns like Karen suggests. I could go on. All this is somehow wrapped up in the seemingly straightforward knowledge of the scales. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 0:49 | comment | added | 200_success | You give good reasons for learning scales, but your arguments for why one should continue to practice scales are less convincing. Do you practice reciting the alphabet every day? Once you've already mastered all the keys, it seems that you could get similar benefits from practicing anything, except for your point about focus on your technique. | |
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