Add-On Scales

For years, I have been teaching add-on scales and now I am publishing them.

They teach music reading in all keys through repetition of what is known before.

Each page of medium-size (two-inch high) musical staff contains the added-on next note of the scale ascending and descending.

The companion book has a two-note musical pattern to read and play with the same size staff for each interval, ascending and descending the scale.

Each pattern gives students confidence and trains their hands and fingers through short repetitive bursts!


©2012 Kathryn Hardage
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Musical Scales

All that practicing lays down the foundation patterns for playing any music in any key.

The part I loved were the etudes that took me through every permutation of a fingering pattern in every key. They were delightful and challenging puzzles that fully engaged the mind and fingers.

Since the early ’80’s I have been envisioning a transparent sphere big enough for a person to step inside with colored lines of light that connect all the keys and harmonic progressions together. They light up as they occur in the music.

I was the only one of my “group” who truly loved music theory. Now, I am preparing materials that will allow anyone, absolutely anyone, from the very most basic beginner onward, to lay down that foundation to enjoy how music all fits together.