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If you look at the scale diagrams and the “up two, down two, up 1 down 2” sorts of patterns, you’ll notice that some are exactly the same in pattern but flipped upside down.

Here is B and B flat flipped over.

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I guess not all of them, just quite a few. The C scale doesn’t, the F scale doesn’t.

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Thanks for replying, David.
You are right, the black keys dont go all of the way down, it just feels like they are.

Im not really making a chord there, just trying to demonstrate the issue.

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Here are a couple of images; one showing how I’d have my fingers and one just showing the tight gap and finger sides touching

I have a Casio PX-160 full size keys and all.

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This was a good discussion on fake books and such.

One of these days soon I’ll be looking for one but I gotta get through Misty and As time goes by first.

I’m amazed at the progress I’ve made in just a day or two..it’s thrilling.

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Thanks again Tony,
The one thing I like about piano?

The same pitch cannot be played in several different places! 🙂

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Thanks Tony, though I don’t play guitar anymore, having traded piano for it. 🙂

Are you “TonyB” over on the Piano World forum?

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New learner here.

I just started and this morning was my first morning of doing the scales.

I’m very excited, this is pretty dang brilliant.

I knew a lot of things because I stumbled on learning modes on guitar many years ago and the system is very very similar to what David says about major scales and how they are constructed and all of that. I played those modes every day for at least a year straight and they got into my brain so that they never came out.

I’m hoping these shapes/clusters and scales do the same for piano for me.

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