I’ll refer to scales and keys of music interchangeably. You’re not likely to get an enthusiastic response. Just tell a traditional piano student to go practice their scales. But words have the tendency to conjure up images and feelings. This may seem like nothing more than semantics. I prefer not to call scales by their traditional name but instead prefer to call them a key of music. Without going overboard into too much detail, you’re developing your finger dexterity and learning to smoothly (legato) play notes as is required by many classical piano pieces. But many of us ask ourselves: what is the purpose of this exercise? Most of us that took traditional piano lessons have memories of repetitiously playing our scales on both hands moving through several octaves of the keyboard. It makes sense because you can ascend and descend a scale just as you would a ladder. To answer the next the question that always comes up: Why are they called scales? The word scale comes from the Latin word la scala which means ladder.
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