Free Piano Lesson 6: How To Pass The Thumb Correctly When Playing Scales

🎹 Most Beginners Get This Wrong — How To Pass The Thumb Correctly!

Struggling with to play scales smoothly and evenly? Learn the correct way to pass your thumb under — a technique most beginners get wrong!

In this lesson, I’ll show you exactly where to bend your thumb (hint: it’s NOT where you think) and simple guided exercises to master this essential skill including exclusive tips from the Musiah app.

🔹 0:00 – The #1 mistake pianists make
🔹 0:30 – Where the thumb actually bends
🔹 1:20 – Underhand view of proper thumb passing
🔹 2:50 – Step-by-step exercises (left & right hand)
🔹 6:00 – How to apply this in scales

 

Happy playing!

Handy Tip: For the latest free piano lesson videos, Subscribe to our Youtube Channel.

You may also like this YouTube Short which is the above tutorial in vertical format.

🎹 Stop Passing the Thumb Wrong in Scales!


Related Articles


Warning: fopen(/data/log/site-2025-08-13.log): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /data/musiahhq/webroot/classes/Site/SiteRoute.php on line 201

Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, bool given in /data/musiahhq/webroot/classes/Site/SiteRoute.php on line 202

Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, bool given in /data/musiahhq/webroot/classes/Site/SiteRoute.php on line 203

Warning: chmod(): No such file or directory in /data/musiahhq/webroot/classes/Site/SiteRoute.php on line 204