Walter MacFarren – Scale and Arpeggio Manual | Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 1037 | Piano Technique Sheet Music and Method Book | G. Schirmer ... (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics)

This scale book is helpful in building knowledge, flexibility, and skill. It’s a very worthwhile classic on piano technique for beginners and more advanced piano players.

A standard resource for all up and comping pianists who want to master their scales and arpeggios in many different formats. I recommend it for study and for practice ideas.

This was intended as a warm up, the usual scales and arpeggios. Turns out this is a more than just a warm up and quite a comprehensive drill on chromatic scales, arpeggios in dominant 7ths and diminished 7ths, scales in double 3rds and 6ths, chromatic doubles etc.

I love the format of Schirmer's library, of which I have several in my collection, so really I can't go wrong there. I chose to give four instead of five stars because of Macfarren's exercise choices. He begins with C major, two hands running parallel, followed by C running in opposite directions, then C with both hands separated by a sixth, then a third, one running parallel and one running in opposite directions. For me, the important thing is to learn the scale itself, and since there are twelve major scales it would make sense to do this before getting into these various exercises. To do this with this book you have to do a lot of skipping around. Maybe not the best way to learn scales for the beginner.

This is like torture to some extent, but it is a serious manual of scales and appregios that will get a new student to working around the keyboard and provide plenty of challenge to an accomplished pianist.

After some searching, this is the most complete scale and appregio book in the market for classical pianists. It is all that you need - 3rd apart, 6th apart, inversions of appregios, 7th, deminished 7th, 3rd and 6th intervals, Contrary motion...

Satisfied

Another excellent piano pedagogy and technique book.

Loving it. Gives me practice on those arpeggios that was sorely lacking.

If you are seeking the ultimate collection of scales and related exercises this book is it. Incredible value.. The only book you will need to purchase whatever level of pianoforte you are studying for.

Everything you need have for playing scales.