Musical Scales: Make Scale Practice More Fun and Engaging In 4 Steps!

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Practicing scales is vital to developing your musicianship, but running the same scales in the same way day in and day out can get boring fast.

Don’t fretā€”we have a solution!

In this article, we’ll discuss several ways to practice musical scales that are more engaging, rewarding, and challenging than you might be used to. After all, the goal of practicing scales isn’t to perform scales! The goal is to learn the fundamental building blocks of music and use them to make music!

By the end of this article, you’ll have a deeper understanding of what scales are and learn strategies for making musical scales you practice way more fun and challenging.

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What Are Musical Scales (Actually)?

There are several ways you can think about what scales actually are.

A beginner music student might say that a scale is a series or sequence of notes that repeat in both pitch directions until you run out of instrument.

They might think, “Things like melodies and solos use scales, so I need to practice scales to learn melodies and improvise.” With this thinking, scales like the major scale are only a means to an endā€”you need to practice scales so that you can get to the more fun stuff like melodies and solos.

However, this line of thinking limits what scales are and frames them as somehow less than melodies and solos. In reality, scales set the harmonic rules that govern chords, melodies, and solos. At least, they set the framework or stage on which chords, melodies, and solos are played.

See, scales represent a set of pitch relationships that create distinct moods and emotions in listeners. The harmonic minor scale sounds different from the major pentatonic scale because the relationships between each set of notes are different.

We call these sets of pitch relationships pitch environments.

Western music theory features many different types of scales. You have your seven-note scales, like the major scale and its modes, or six-note scales, like the major blues scale and minor blues scales, or five-note scales, like the major pentatonic or minor pentatonic scales.

Then you have other scales like the whole tone scale, diminished scales, and the chromatic scale. Essentially, there are many different pitch environments in which musicians compose and improvise.

Pitch Environments (or Scales vs. Chords vs. Chord-Scales)

It’s more useful to see scales and chords as two ways of organizing the same musical “thing.” Those musical “things,” in this case, are pitch environments.

Scales are one-dimensional ways of representing different pitch environments. At the same time, chords are two-dimensional ways of representing the same pitch environment.

Dimensionality:

  • One-dimensional means that only one note is happening at a time (scale).
  • Two-dimensional means more than one note is happening at a time (chords).

When we play a scale, we are accessing a pitch environment in one dimension. When we play a chord scale, we access that pitch environment in two dimensions.

Let’s dig a bit deeper into specific pitch environments (or scales) and see how one small change in the musical scale can completely change the character of the pitch environment.

Comparing Pitch Environments

The major scale is a distinct pitch environment from other scales like the melodic minor scale or harmonic minor scale. We can represent the major scale formula in several ways:

  • In steps: W-W-H-W-W-W-H
  • By note names: C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C
  • By intervals related back to the root: unison, major second, major third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, major sixth, major seventh, octave.
Musical Scales: C major scale with interval relationships

For more on the major scale and its modes, check out our article on musical modes.

Within these intervals that make up the major scale, you have a crazy amount of pitch relationships that are all characteristic of the major scale. You can build diads, triads, and seventh chords out of these many relationships.

Let’s explore some of them!

We get diatonic triads when we take the major scale and stack thirds onto each of the seven scale degrees. These are the basic units of harmony in major and minor keys:

Diatonic triads in the key of C

If we stack an additional third on each triad, we get diatonic seventh chords in the key of C:

Music Scales: Diatonic seventh chords in the key of C

But we aren’t limited to thirds only. Let’s harmonize this scale in fourths. Quartal harmony, built off of fourths, is commonly used in jazz.

Music Scales: C major harmonized in fourths

In this way, the major scale itself is a blueprint for all the different pitch relationships you can build out of this pitch environment.

But what happens when we make one small change to the musical scale?

The Melodic Minor Scale (Jazz Minor Scale)

Let’s compare the major scale to the jazz minor scale, which is similar to the major scale pitch environment. Still, it has one notable differenceā€”the melodic minor scale has a minor third interval, whereas the major scale has a major third interval.

This one small change makes a big difference.

(Note: we are using the melodic minor scale in the jazz sense, so it doesn’t have a different form when descending.)

The melodic minor formula, like the major scale formula, can also be represented by steps, note names, and intervals:

  • In steps: W-H-W-W-W-W-H
  • By note names: C-D-Eb-F-G-A-B-C
  • By intervals related back to the root: unison, major second, minor third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, major sixth, major seventh, octave.
C minor scale: C melodic minor with intervals and steps

The change from E to Eb creates a whole new pitch environment that has a distinct musical (and emotional) character. Stacking thirds in melodic minor gives you a different chord scale because of that simple change from E to Eb.

C melodic minor harmonized in triads:

C melodic minor harmonized in triads

C melodic minor harmonized in seventh chords:

C melodic minor harmonized in seventh chords

For more on the melodic minor scale, check out our guide to the melodic minor scale.

The Harmonic Minor Scale

The pitch environment (and all the interval relationships) change even further if we change the A natural to an A flat, making it a harmonic minor scale. This is best represented in a seventh-chord chord scale:

Harmonic Minor Scale harmonized in seventh chords.

Looking back all the way to the C major scale, you can see just how different the harmonic minor pitch environment is by changing only two notes. The tonality is entirely different.

When you start to see scales like thisā€”and not as a means to a musical endā€”you realize that scales are just one way to organize pitch environments. Once this hits you, you’ll see that there are so many different ways to practice scales!

Hopefully, this section has changed your perspective on scales and why you should think of them more like pitch environments rather than a means to a musical end. Within a given seven-note sequence lies an abundance of relationships (dissonances and consonances) that make it unique.

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Overhaul The Way You Practice Scales And Make Your Scales More Musical

Now that we have a better understanding of what scales are, we can devise some practice strategies to make practicing major and minor scales more fun and engaging.

1. Think Intervalically

By thinking of scales as one-dimensional ways of accessing pitch environments, we can break out of linear playing. All too often, students will run scales up and down robotically and not actually engage with what they are playing.

Let’s try to engage and think about interval patterns we can play through the major scale. This will work on any scale, but we’ll stick to the major scale for now.

Major Scale in 3rds

C major scale played in thirds ascending and descending (major scale starting on C)

Major Scale in 4ths

C major scale played in fourths ascending and descending (major scale starting on C)

Natural Minor Scale in 5ths

Let’s switch it up and play the C natural minor scale in 5ths.

C natural minor scale in in 5ths; ascending and descending

Let’s continue with minor scales!

Natural Minor Scale in 6ths

C Natural Minor Scale in 6ths; ascending scale and descending scale

Natural Minor Scale in 7ths

C Natural Minor Scale in 7ths; ascending scale and descending scale

This is the beginning of intervallic scale practice. You can apply this concept of playing through scales based on intervals with major scales, minor scales, pentatonic scales, and so much more.

2. Think Rhythmically

Think about how you are approaching the scales rhythmically. Try the following variations:

Start Scales on Upbeats:

Starting a diatonic scale on the upbeat

Play Scales in Triplets:

C Dorian minor scale played in triplets

Combine 8th Notes and Triplets:

Mixing 8th notes and triplets on a C Mixolydian Scale

Further Mix Different Rhythms:

Mixed rhythms using a major bebop scale and a bebop dominant scale

Combine Step 1 and Step 2

We took C natural minor and played it in fourths over a triplet rhythm.

C natural minor in 4ths over a triplet rhythm

3. Add Accents and Other Articulations

Try adding accents, staccato notes, and slurred notes to practice playing scales more musically. Some ideas: accent downbeats, upbeats, and set groupings.

Here are some examples combining different suggestions (using different scales):

Articulations played over the Aeolian Mode, Phrygian Mode, Locrian Mode, and Lydian Mode

4. Think Dynamically

Another way you can practice musicality in your scales is by thinking dynamically. Can you start the scale off where it’s barely audible and crescendo into full volume? Can you start loud and end in barely a whisper?

Playing with scale dynamics using minor scales, the diminished scale and the harmonic major scale

Try combining all these elements when practicing scales.

Think about how different scales can sound when you apply these different parameters. Use these different practice strategies to work on different aspects of musicianship while also practicing scales in novel ways.

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Get our FREE "Musical Scales: Make Scale Practice More Fun and Engaging In 4 Steps!" chord chart and our entire library of 200+ jazz standards!

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