Playing C Major Scale

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Play­ing the C Major with the right hand uses a tech­nique in which the thumb comes up under the 3rd fin­ger when play­ing the scale up and pass­ing the 3rd fin­ger over the thumb when play­ing the scale com­ing down.
The fin­ger­ing going up is: 123_12345
The fin­ger­ing com­ing down is: 54321_321

C Major Scale

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C Major Scale

Cool Tip

Why do I have to do the “thumb under” and the “3rd fin­ger over”?
Why are these fin­ger­ings impor­tant?

We have only five fin­gers on each hand. Think about the num­ber of notes you need to play from the first note to the last note. Unless you can grow more fin­gers, you won’t have enough fin­gers to cover all the notes you need to play. That is why you need to do the “thumb under” and “3rd fin­ger over” tech­niques, which free up more fin­gers to use. If you use proper fin­ger­ing from the start, you will be able to play accu­rately with any speed.