If I had a child (No, Scarlet is not my daughter. In fact, there are at least 4 people right now on the planet with my name), and my condo had 12 steps to the upper floor (most do) I would wire each step to play a successive note for each step. At the top, and the bottom, there would be a screen that tells them what scale they just played (including alternative names... there are many in some cases)
Then I'd teach the child to walk the scales by skipping steps for "whole steps". The fun begins when they've learned the modes and we move onto Harmonic Minor modes with the really big step.
Fun way to learn scales up and down. No? Or is this abuse? I think kids would learn modes quickly this way.
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