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← B𝄫 Major on Piano

B𝄫 Major — In Sixths

Scales in sixths spread the hands further apart than scales in thirds, training the ear and hands on the sweeter harmonic interval associated with parallel motion in Romantic-era piano literature. Both hands move in parallel a diatonic sixth apart.

Engraved by Verovio 6.2.0-43f8060 4 8 title B𝄫 Major — In Sixths Verovio
Tempo120 bpm

Audio source: tonejs-instruments by Nick Brosowsky (MIT)

Keyboard — in sixths
1 oct3 oct
B𝄫C♭E𝄫F♭B𝄫C♭E𝄫F♭B𝄫C♭E𝄫F♭B𝄫D♭G♭A♭D♭G♭A♭D♭G♭A♭

Related scales

RelativeG♭ Natural MinorSame seven notes, tonic on the 6th degree — your access to the related minor key.ParallelB𝄫 Natural MinorSame tonic, the parallel minor — the deepest mode flip in tonal music.Up a fifthF♭ MajorOne sharp brighter on the circle of fifths.Up a fourthE𝄫 MajorOne flat darker on the circle of fifths.One note differentB𝄫 LydianRaise the 4th — the bright, floating Lydian colour.One note differentB𝄫 MixolydianLower the 7th — folk, blues-rock, Celtic vocabulary.SubsetB𝄫 Pentatonic MajorFive notes from the same scale — the bedrock pentatonic.ExoticB𝄫 Harmonic MajorBorrow the ♭6 from minor — operatic edge, IV / iv6 colour.

Same presentation in other keys