You will notice that this excercise is written without note values. We have been practicing up to the double bar on whole notes, then the second half on half notes, but in your personal practice your goal should be to play as quickly as you can without missing any notes. This is also a good excercise to work on double- and triple-tonguing.
If you have a piano or keyboard, Concert E is the white key to the right of the double black notes. Match your instrument on a mid-range (not high or low) to the piano’s pitch and then play every single note up to the next E. You can check yourself against the piano with white and black keys–white whiite black white black white black white white black white black white.
I have included both the sharp and flat equivalents of the black keys (these will be in different locations in your scale if you do not play a Concert C instrument). These notes are fingered and played identically. There is only one note per measure, but you should be able to recognize that an F# and a Gb are the same note. I did not include the following alternates: E# = F, Fb = E, B# = C and Cb = B.
Your first note (Concert E) should be in the middle of your range. Some instruments can play three octaves comfortably and you are welcome to begin the second section an octave below where you began the first section.
You will notice Roman Numerals in boxes. These are the arpeggio notes for a Concert E Major scale. If they are all played together: an E chord. If you lower the third (play the fourth measure instead of the fifth) you will get an e minor arpeggio/chord. Try playing the first, fifth, eighth, thirteenth, eighth, fifth, and first measures to hear the major arpeggio. Then play the same replacing the fifth measure with the fourth measure to hear the minor arpeggio. You can also add the twelfth measure to hear the E7 and e7 chords. This is good ear-training. FYI: you might see E/E7 or EM/EM7 used to represent the major chords and e/e7 or Em/Em7 to represent the minor chords.
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