I feel like scales on piano do absolutely nothing.
When playing a song, sure you may in
some circumstances play a scale or part of one, but 95% of the time you aren't. And nothing to teach you good fingerings for songs either >~<
Playing scales is really more of a warm up to get your fingers quickly moving again more than anything. It's not really meant to teach you fingerings or anything like that, it's just a way for you to build up endurance and dexterity in your fingers so you can do complicated technical passages later on without as much difficulty. I'd also recommend doing more besides just scales if you want to maximize your technical output; such as doing arpeggios, scales in different rhythms (like triplets), etc. Etudes also serve this purpose, and imo they're funner than scales (but also harder) because they actually, well, have a melody.
Every time I had a piano lesson, my lesson with always start with doing scales and other technique stuff (like poly-rhythms), before later moving on to Etudes once I was good enough to stop doing scales, before we'd actually start playing my pieces/repertoire, so...
Source: Over 10 years of piano lessons and playing piano competitively :P
On topic: I'm really envious of the people who have fully accepted that Jonghyun's gone and are able to listen to his music and SHINee's music again without much difficulty. The fact that only now after his death is he topping so many music charts in Korea is so fucking depressing, he deserved
so much more.
Some people have been saying I'm overreacting, but I'm sorry, I practically grew up listening to SHINee's music, they were the first group I really fell in love with back in middle school, and over the past 5 (nearly 6 now) years, they consistently brought me nothing but happiness (and now they're bringing me the exact opposite).
And Jonghyun ALWAYS had my favorite voice out of any singer I've ever heard for many many years now. He also had such an unique and distinct compositional style and the songs he composed were always just so good and one of a kind and now he's gone and we'll never see him compose a song, sing on stage, make music ever again and it's still so hard to process that. Jonghyun was truly a beautiful person, he was too good for this world and it's still really not hitting me that he's gone. It's way easier to accept the part of myself that just readily embraces the fact that he's here, as he had been for many years, rather than the part of myself who's screaming at me that he's really gone, and I just don't want to accept it, despite it being nearly 2 weeks now.
I tried to listen to oldschool SHINee songs like Replay and
Best Place today, and I couldn't do it without breaking down again. Best Place in particular is the song that got me through my middle school years (where I was bullied a lot :/), and it hit me then that all these songs that I've listened to for so many years happily, I'll
never be able to listen to the same way again, knowing that my favorite member and my favorite voice is dead. I don't think I'll ever be listen to Kpop the same way I used to, period. I really can't imagine a future for SHINee after this. Jonghyun's voice is really what made the group, they just don't work the same as 4. They were just about to celebrate their 10th anniversary next year too, just like Kalafina.
Just fuck this, this whole situation is so miserable. To those who think I'm overreacting, just imagine how'd you react if Kajiura or one of the Kalafina members died (God forbid) and try to put yourself in my shoes rn. I hate this