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B Major Scale Study

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The purpose of this study is to teach your fingers where they're going to live when playing in the key of B. We'll first learn 3 positions for a one octave scale, then introduce a great exercise, and finally apply it to playing licks in B!

Chords Improvisation Key of B Scales Theory technique

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  1. Junior Pace ·

    Just want to say the multiple camera angles make all the difference. I could actually see what the right hand was doing.

  2. Dale Hutchins ·

    Not just you. I still count this one out loud and I've been at it four years.

  3. Sam Whitlock ·

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  4. Katie Clark Support ·

    Glad it clicked! That timing is the whole point of this lesson, so if that landed you got what you came for.

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