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Summary: Learn piano F# minor and B7 2-5s and tritone note substitutions when reading & playing music in this free video on music theory.

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F# Minor & B7: 2-5s & Tritone Substitutions

Now we're going to go over F sharp minor and B seventh which comes out of E major. If we look at our piano we have E. E, F sharp, G sharp, A, B, C sharp, D sharp, E. Four sharps. So, if we start on F sharp and we go one, two, three, four, and five. So, we have one, three, five, and seven, right there, right? There's our F sharp minor. Then we drop the top two down a notch in the scale and we get our B minor seventh. And then we drop our bottom two down a notch in the scale. We get our E major. Two minor, five seven, one major. And that you get our tritone substitution. We drop the top two down a half step and the bottom one down a half step and we get. C, F sharp minor, F seven, E major. And that's your two fives in E major. Ole.

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