This was published 14 years ago Notes from heaven: piano on a grand scale Steve Meacham October 21, 2010 — 3.00am Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ...

Step 4: For an F blues scale, we need one last tweak: a sharpened fourth degree. This means we take the fourth degree of the scale, raise it in pitch by one semitone and add this note to the scale.

Not just any old scale – a huge, fortissimo scale in octaves. And Alice Sara Ott makes it look (and sound) SO awesome. German-Japanese piano virtuoso Alice Sara Ott is known for saying “ music was the ...