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Summary: Tips and tricks for improvising 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 Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more
Now we're going to go through and show you a little improv. Again, if you search B major scales or just scales with B on the piano all these different scales come up that you can utilize over these exact same chord changes. Right now we're just going to focus on our blues scale. And we're going to take this scale and play it in our right hand, improvising, while we play these simple chords that we have down in our left hand. Great thing to practice at home. So, if we take a look at the piano our blues scale starts right here on B. We have B, D, E, F, F sharp, A, B. And notice we don't use many black notes at all. And that's actually wise because we're using the notes in between are called blue notes. And they sound ultra sweet as we improvise over this tune. So, again B, D, E, F, F sharp, A. So, we're going to go play the whole tune and I'll do a little improv. And that's your B major bebop blues with a little improv.