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How to Play the B Major Scale on Piano

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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play melodies on the piano in the key of B major with expert instruction from a professional jazz composer in this free video clip on music theory and piano techniques.

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By 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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"RYAN LARSON: Now we're going to take a visual look at the B major scale. We start here on B. B, C sharp, D sharp, E, F sharp, G sharp, A sharp, B. And for our purposes, we number it one through seven; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 so we can play our tune here. 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 1, and you can see how--when we're just going through the pattern, it sounds very melodic and we're just using the same pattern. And we'll go through and actually look at sheet music which we will in a minute. You see, what we're actually reading on the sheet music is this pattern and it's laid out on the music as a pattern to make life easier for you and it makes life easier for everybody."

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