2 Simple Exercises to IMPROVE your piano scales QUICKLY

🎹 Two thumb exercises for smoother, faster piano scales. 🎼 FREE PDF with my scale exercises: https://pianofantasy.com/free-pdf-dow... In a scale you need eight notes with five fingers, so somewhere the hand has to change position, and that is the thumb's job. That's why I call this exercise centering the thumb. The main exercise, then a variation, for beginners and for advanced players. 💡 Many pianists practise for years and still hear the same ceiling. More hours of the same practice don't add up to progress. Change the movement, and the sound changes with it. That is what I teach. 🎁 FREE PRACTICE PDFs — technique exercises and repertoire studies, sent to your inbox: 👉 https://pianofantasy.com/free-pdf-dow... 🎓 PRO MEMBER — ready to go further? I teach how fingers and arm work together, step by step in my Super Fingers course, with my live lessons and my direct feedback: 👉 https://pianofantasy.com/pro-member 💬 "I came across Lars on YouTube … Thanks to him I corrected many bad habits. I was able to play quickly and accurately. Everything suddenly seems simpler." — Teddy, Pro Member 👋 ABOUT ME I started piano at fifteen. Too late, many told me. Four years later I passed the entrance exam at the conservatory in Maastricht, and studied there for seven years with Avi Schönfeld, a student of Arthur Rubinstein. I have now taught for over twenty-five years, in four countries, and I built Piano Fantasy as the school I wish I had found when I started. I believe you can do it too. 👉 https://pianofantasy.com/about 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for new lessons: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/c/PianoFantas... 🎧 TRAIN YOUR EAR — I recommend EarMaster: 👉 https://cloud.earmaster.com/ssignup/?... 📲 FOLLOW ME Facebook:   / larsnelissenpianofantasy   Instagram:   / pianoxfantasy   X: https://x.com/PianoXFantasy ✋ NO AI — no AI was used to make this video. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction centering the thumb 00:57 The main exercise 04:58 Variation on the main exercise #pianoscales #pianotechnique #pianoexercises