Great piano instructors unanimously emphasized the importance (and its underestimate by pianists and would-be pianists) of practicing scales on daily basis.
There are literally thousands of ways we practice scales.
First and foremost, there are 24 tonalities. To multiply, there other parameters as:
Upward or downward;
Unison or Inverse unison (is there such an expression?);
Both hands, left hand only, right hand only (this is actually very much effective);
In terms of harmonics, there are 8th, 6th, and 3rd;
Touch, i.e. legato, non-legato, portamente, staccato;
Intensity, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff;
Rhythm, i.e. dotted or not among others (there are other variations);
Simply multiplied, how many are they? ... 24 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 4 x 6 x 2 = 41,472 combinations. Oops. No surprise we should spend much more time on scales.
I omitted the tempo as one of the parameters because we should normally play slowly, valuing every note carefully listening to it.
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