B major - Scales, triads & chords
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Would you like to learn B major, play the B major scale and add the B major chord to your repertoire? Respect! Because quite honestly, this key has it all. Which doesn’t mean you should ignore it. But that’s why you’re here and want to learn the key together with me, right? And together we can do it!
But why is B major so difficult? Or to put it another way: why is B major perceived as difficult by many cavalier players? I’ll tell you. It’s the accidentals.
The more omens, the greater the fear. For many. And yes, B major has a hell of a lot of accidentals. But can I tell you something? The whole thing isn’t that bad. On the contrary. Once you’ve internalized the notes of B major and got to know the B major chord, you’ll love this key. Like so many things on the piano, it simply sounds beautiful.
So what can you expect? In this article you will learn everything about B major. Explanatory videos and pictures of the B major scale, the right fingering, the B major chord, the inversions, the notes of B major and you’ll get the right keyboard illustrations.
B major scale
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When you play the B major scale, you will encounter five accidentals: F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp and A sharp. Okay, that’s a lot. Let’s look at this together in detail.
Before we get scared of the supposed monster of B major, let’s play the B major scale straight away. The notes are: b, c sharp, d sharp, e, f sharp, g sharp, a sharp and b.
Tip: It’s worth sticking with it. If you play the scale before every music session as a warm-up, it will become second nature to you. You won’t even think about the accidentals anymore. Why should you? You don’t see them, you just play the scale in B major. Freely and by intuition.
Would you like to find out more about intuitive piano playing? Then wait and see. I have a little treat for you at the end of this article.
Piano keyboard with fingering
Pssst. There’s one thing I haven’t told you yet. One thing that will make your life at the piano so much easier. And makes B major suddenly seem ridiculously easy:
The B major scale requires all black keys!
Do you know what that means? You don’t have to think long about which black keys you have to play in B major. The answer is: all of them!
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B major triad (chord)
Below you will find the B major triad as notes and as a piano keyboard in various positions: Basic position, 1st inversion and 2nd inversion of the triad.
Home position
The B major chord in the root position is made up of the first, third and fifth notes of the B major scale: B – D sharp – F sharp
1. reversal
The first inversion of the B major chord has the tones: D sharp – F sharp – B
2. reversal
The second inversion of the B major chord has the tones: F sharp – B flat – D sharp
Parallel minor key
The parallel minor key of B major is G sharp minor or A flat minor.
Top! Now you have mastered one of the most difficult keys on the piano.
How to play every song on the piano
Do you want to learn to play your favorite songs on the piano just like that? Without notes, without tutorials and without learning apps? In your own personal version?
Or do you simply want to spontaneously improvise your musical ideas on the piano? For yourself alone or in front of an audience?
Then you might be interested in this:
Play Piano by Intuition
Because intuitive piano playing does not require notes or classical theory, you will learn it as quickly as you learned to speak as a child.
While for others the piano remains a “typewriter for notes”, you understand its notes and which combinations always sound right. You can express yourself through the piano – like a small child who has just learned to speak.
In future, you will be able to rely on your intuition in any situation: You will become immune to wrong notes because you will see the right keys in your mind’s eye even before you press them.
In my free workshop I will show you how it works.
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