Scales?! Boooring... Is that your attitude about scales? I hear you. Unfortunately, the average piano teacher has made playing scales an exercise in futility. LISTEN to me: scales should be understood and practiced moderately. Mindless repetitions of finger patterns while the metronome ticks away is waste of your precious life. Understanding the language of music is vital if you want to improve your playing, and the scaleis the alphabet from which we express this language. In this lesson I explain as simply as I know how the C Major Scale. From this scale we will build chords in the next lesson!