B major scale on piano

The notes of the B major scale

B C♯ D♯ E F♯ G♯ A♯

Formula: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Steps from note to note: 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 semitones (whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half).

B major has 5 sharps: C♯, D♯, F♯, G♯ and A♯. Its relative minor, with the same notes, is G♯ minor.

In Hz, from B4: B4 493.9 · C♯5 554.4 · D♯5 622.3 · E5 659.3 · F♯5 740.0 · G♯5 830.6 · A♯5 932.3.

The B major scale on the piano

White keys: B E; black keys: C♯ D♯ F♯ G♯ A♯.

Fingering for one octave up: right hand 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5, left hand 4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 (1 = thumb). The same fingers come back down.

The comfortable one

Five sharps sounds hard, but B major lies well under the hand: the long fingers sit on the black keys and the thumb only on B and E. The left hand starts on its 4th finger instead of the 5th: 4 3 2 1, 4 3 2 1. Many teachers start the black-key scales here.

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How this page works

Hear it plays the scale up and down at 100 BPM on one of four Brumm sounds. Take it gives the same notes as a MIDI file and a WAV. − and + move the root. Every note here is computed from the formula.

Sources

Scales and modes: Open Music Theory, musictheory.net. Piano fingerings: the standard scale-book fingerings (ABRSM scale books; Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist, part 3). Trumpet valves: the standard B♭ trumpet fingering chart (Yamaha, Bach). Hz: A4 = 440 Hz, ISO 16.

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