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Major Scale for Piano in B for Beginners

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Summary: The major scale and how to use it to improvise on piano in the key of B; learn this and more in this free online piano lesson taught by expert pianist Ryan Larson.

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Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more

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"So now we're going to show you are B major scale first and B major black chord two very simply easy things. So if we look at the keyboard , we start here on B and are B major chords goes B, C #, D#, E, F#, G#, A#, B. Now you can Google this on Internet and find this as well. It's very easy. Simply scale to get under your fingers, B to B. You only use all the black notes here D, C, D#, E, F#, G#, A#, B. And to get are first scale, we number the scale one through seven, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And we land on B again. And what we play is what is what called the black chord. Were we outline the first, the third, the fifth, and the seventh degrees of the scale. So we play one, three, five, and seven. And that's your B major black chord. You can hear how pretty it sounds and you can play the scale on your left hand or right hand and just move it around and really get that sound under your fingers. You can also play B6 and put the sixth on the top instead of the seventh and it will sound pretty as well. That's our first chord in B major. Our B major chord."

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