Left hand placement for the G major piano scale: Right hand placement for the G major piano scale: To play the G major one octave scale, start with your fingers in the same position as the pentascale and play like this: You won’t play the F sharp unless you’re playing the full scale. Notice that when you play the G major pentascale, you don’t need to use any sharps. For your right hand, place fingers like this:įor your left hand, place fingers like this: How do you play the G major scale on piano? You’ll see this pattern continue as you go through all the sharp key signatures in order of increasing number of sharps, with the next one, the key of D, adding a C sharp (one note below D) to make two sharps, then the next one, the key of A, adding a G sharp (one note below A) to make three sharps, and so on. Notice that the raised note is F sharp, the very last tone of the scale before the scale starts over on G. G major has the fewest sharps of all sharp key signatures, which are for keys that require one or more notes to be sharp. The notes of the G major scale are G, A, B, C, D, E, and F sharp. (Please see Transposition for more about choosing keys.The G major scale is starts on G and has one sharped note, F sharp. But today the most common reason to choose a particular key is simply that the music is easiest to sing or play in that key. Even now, there are subtle differences between the sound of a piece in one key or another, mostly because of differences in the timbre of various notes on the instruments or voices involved. So why bother with different keys at all? Before equal temperament became the standard tuning system, major keys sounded more different from each other than they do now. The music may look quite different, but the only difference when you listen is that one sounds higher than the other. Listen to this tune in G major and in D major. \): b: In D Majorįigure 5: The same tune looks very different when written in two different major keys.
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