SCALES AND ITS FINGERING

[DREICO]

WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN YOU'RE TOLD TO LEARN THE SCALES AND ITS FINGERING ?  IM MAINLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FINGERING PART. IN THE MUSIC THEORY SECTION, UNDER EACH NOTE YOU WILL SEE A 1,2,3,4,5 OR EVEN HIGHER. PLEASE EXPLAIN.... ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANKYOU VERY MUCH MR. HAMMONDMAN FOR HELPING ME UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERING FOR PROGRESSIONS....

[sbinf]

The numbers refer to the corresponding finger on each hand with 1 being the thumb and 5 being the 'pinkie'. Here is one scale fingering sheet online. There are a ton others all a little different. It's good to learn these because believe it or not fingering issues will come up all the time when you play. If you already have a protocol that you use it's a lot easier to figre out fingerings later on. Hope this helps

http://www-student.furman.edu/users/r/rkelley/scalfing.htm[/url]

[DREICO]

what if there are three different versions of that particular chord. For instance we'll use CEG. You have CEG EGC and GCE. If the fingering is 1. Wouldnt it be impossible to use one of these chords.

[Virtuality]

Dreico, I think the fingering refers to how to finger the notes in the SCALES, not the notes in the chords, although there are certain ways to finger notes in chords, but somebody else will have to tell you about that. God Bless!

[sbinf]

You can pretty much finger chords in any way that's comfortable to you. In your example of the inversions of a C major chord, you can use 1-2-4, 1-3-5, or 1-3-4. It's a matter of comfort for you as everyone's fingers are different sizes.