It centers on playing scales in a linear fashion.

"He's just making sure I'm not killing you or anything," she says, dark black cherry nails playing scales on the table.

After all, he only had to play scales and I assumed he could manage that with ease.

Students of musical instruments learn how to play scales and arpeggios.

Violinists can play scales in octaves, too, playing on two strings at once, but this is very hard.

There's a little English lady who accuses me of playing scales all the time.

In performance classes, students play scales, studies, and other short pieces.

It will be broken in by a machine that plays scales without complaint, unlike a student.

The flute has the ability to play scales with three octaves.

Not if you're going to start playing scales again.