The Major Scale Course
Adam Maness shows you a delightfully simple method for learning, practicing, and mastering ALL the major scales (including pentatonics!)
Major Scales for Improv
The Major Scale is a foundational set of notes used in everything you play.
With The Major Scale Course, piano guru Adam Maness shows you the important relationships within all 12 major scales in useful and practical ways that will make you a better improviser.
“If you don’t know your major scales this way, you don’t really know them at all” – Barry Harris
Get confident with thirds, triads, broken 7th chords, and with crucial skills for improvisation:
- approach notes
- pivots
- pentatonic scales
Adam guides you through every single key, starting at C, moving up chromatically, all the way to B.
This will be your “go-to” tool on scales to revisit time and time again.
Meet Your Instructor
As Open Studio’s Creative Director, Adam Maness develops the curriculum of all of the courses, in addition to teaching his own popular course like Magic Voicing System, Piano Fingering Independence and more.
Adam is a versatile pianist, arranger, composer, and producer whose performances, original compositions, and arrangements have been featured on numerous recordings and on national and international radio and television broadcasts. He is best known as co-founder and composer for the genre-bending chamber ensemble, The 442s.
Course Contents
Start Here
- Welcome from Adam
C Major Scale
- C Major – The Basics
- C Major – Approaches & Pivots
- C Major – Pentatonic
Db Major Scale
- Db Major – The Basics
- Db Major Approaches & Pivots
- Db Major – Pentatonic
D Major Scale
- D Major – The Basics
- D Major – Approaches & Pivots
- D Major – Pentatonic
Eb Major Scale
- Eb Major – The Basics
- Eb Major – Approaches & Pivots
- Eb Major – Pentatonic
E Major Scale
- E Major – The Basics
- E Major – Approaches & Pivots
- E Major – Pentatonic
F Major Scale
- F Major – The Basics
- F Major – Approaches & Pivots
- F Major – Pentatonic
Gb Major Scale
- Gb Major – The Basics
- Gb Major – Approaches & Pivots
- Gb Major – Pentatonic
G Major Scale
- G Major – The Basics
- G Major – Approaches & Pivots
- G Major – Pentatonic
Ab Major Scale
- Ab Major – The Basics
- Ab Major – Approaches & Pivots
- Ab Major – Pentatonic
A Major Scale
- A Major – The Basics
- A Major – Approaches & Pivots
- A Major – Pentatonic
Bb Major Scale
- Bb Major – The Basics
- Bb Major – Approaches & Pivots
- Bb Major – Pentatonic
B Major Scale
- B Major – The Basics
- B Major – Approaches & Pivots
- B Major – Pentatonic
