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

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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 12 key technique to ... read more

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How to Play a Written B Scale on Piano

RYAN LARSON: So now we have to take a look at how it's written out. And we have B major right down here, four sharps here or five sharps--my bad, five sharps. And you'll notice that the five sharps are written over here in the key signature, and our scale is just read all notes like this so we have B, C, D, E, F, G, A, then we keep going up B, C, D, E, F, G, A. And the best way to really show you that we're reading in a pattern is if you look at B flat, we have two flats here but B flat is already notated and it looks like the exact same scale, right? B flat, C, D, E flat, F, G, A, and so on up, et cetera. The only difference is here you're playing a B flat scale with two flats and here you're playing a B scale with five sharps. So, by changing the pattern, we can read the exact same passage but be playing entirely different notes but it will sound exactly the same because we're reading within this pattern, and we'll go through more about reading this pattern in just a minute.

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