Piano Grade 8: Scales & Arpeggios

What you'll learn

1. 1

   Imagine your fingers are tiny dancers running up and down a staircase 🎹. Scales are just patterns of steps — whole step, whole step, half step — that make a musical ladder!

2. 2

   What do you do with your thumb when you run out of fingers going up a scale?

3. 3

   Tap the piano keys to play a C major scale — white keys only, starting at C.

4. 4

   Let's learn the C major arpeggio — it's like a scale but you skip every other note! 🎶

5. 5

   Which notes make up a C major arpeggio?

6. 6

   Now try playing a G major arpeggio — start on G and skip every other white key.

7. 7

   What's the difference between a scale and an arpeggio?