Piano Scales — Free Beginner Exercises

Scales that stumble? It's not more repetitions — it's raising the fingers.

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Scale patterns and practice methods · printable PDF

What You'll Practice

Inside the PDF

  • Why the thumb crossing makes one direction harder — and how to fix it.
  • The umbrella hand applied to scales: raise the fingers, play with clarity.
  • Active fingers, no arm yet — and a second mode for two-hand coordination.
  • Micro-adjustments at the black keys, so the hand molds to the terrain.
Lars Nelissen

Lars Nelissen is a conservatory-trained pianist and teacher in the Netherlands.

These exercises are from his teaching practice and his Super Fingers books.