E Major - Scales, triads & chords
On this page, you’ll find everything about E major: explainer videos and images of scale fingering, triad, chord, inversions, sheet music, and keyboard diagrams.
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E major is the powerful one among the keys. I particularly like this key for its bright sound, which will certainly make your piano playing shine too. But where there’s light, there’s also shadow: With four accidentals – specifically four sharps – this key is unpopular, especially among beginner pianists.
Are you throwing your hands up in despair? You don’t need to. Because I promise you: After you’ve worked through this article and practiced a bit, you’ll master E major. And you’ll be able to play the E major scale, the E major chord, and its inversions in your sleep.
To make everything especially easy – pun intended – ‘at your fingertips’, I’ll explain the E major notes, chords, and fingerings with clear images and explainer videos. This way, you’re guaranteed to master E major.
E Major Scale
Sheet music
The E major scale consists of the following notes:
E – F# – G# – A – B – C# – D# – E
So, four black keys line your path when you play E major.
Piano keyboard with fingering
As you’ve already learned, when playing the E major scale, you need four black keys: F#, G#, C#, and D#. Now all you need is the right fingering. You’ll learn that now. Take a look at the following illustration:
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Good news! The fingering is the same as for C major. After your middle finger has struck G#, you slide your thumb underneath your hand and place it on A. Then you play the scale upwards until you run out of fingers.
E Major Triad (Chord)
Below, you’ll find the E major triad as sheet music and on the piano keyboard in different positions: root position, 1st inversion, and 2nd inversion of the triad.
Home position
1. reversal
2. reversal
Parallel minor key
The relative minor key of E major is D-flat minor, or C-sharp minor.
How to play every song on the piano
Do you want to learn to simply play your favorite songs on the piano? 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 doesn’t require sheet music or classical theory, you’ll 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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