Whilst we are on the subject of scales, can I ask you a question that one of my students asked me about them - how fast do you ask your students to play their scales?
My stock answer to this is "as fast as still sounds musical," but I would be very interested in other people's views. The last student to ask this was, by the way, 9 years old - he is rapidly working his way through an assortment of scales, including major, minor, chromatic and whole tone - he has already realised that there is only one chromatic scale and only 2 whole tone scales - he's a bright lad
