Book Review: Scales Bootcamp

Raise your hand if you love practicing your scales! …Hmmmm, why didn’t you raise your hand? Doesn’t practicing your scales just bring joy to soul?? Haha, I’m right there with you. Scales are one of those things that you know you should do and everyone says how wonderful it is for you do practice them. But really, I don’t enjoy it at all...until this book.

The best scales book ever!

Scales Bootcamp is a book full of piano scales. And there are two reasons I love it. First, Philip Johnston has a very simple way of explaining how to finger scales. After reading how he explains the fingerings, it suddenly clicked and made so much more sense. And I’ve been working on scales for how many years now?? :)
 
The second reason I love this book is because of the challenges. He doesn’t expect you to just practice a scale until you get it. He gives you tons of challenges to complete and he promises that when you have completed all of them, you never have to practice that scale again for the rest of your life! Some of the challenges are pretty easy, but there are others that are very, very challenging and will keep you busy for a very long time! I have been working on some of them and it really is quite addictive. Go, give it a try!