

This similarity makes B minor the relative minor of D major. If you look at the B minor scale, you’ll notice it’s made up of the same notes as the D major scale, but in a different order. There are seven notes in the D major scale: Let’s get started! Notes in the D Major Scale In this lesson, we’ll show you how to play the D major scale, the notes that make up this scale, as well as a few different positions on your fretboard to play the D major scale. It's also a great scale to kickstart your musical education, whether you’re looking to play covers or write your own material. Like other major scales, D major is easy for beginners to learn. The D major scale is important for beginner guitarists to learn because of its frequent use in a variety genres and popular songs – old and new. Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony in B minor ends in B major.Lesson: Playing the D Major Scale on Guitar The "Tuileries" movement from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is in the key.

The second movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. Brahms also wrote the slow movement to his Second Symphony in B major, as well as the fourth and last piece of the Ballades, Op. 8, is in B major, though the piece ends in B minor. The aria " La donna è mobile" from Verdi's opera Rigoletto is in the key, as is the " Flower Duet" from Lakmé. įew large-scale works in B major exist: these include Haydn's Symphony No. You can download the audio file.Īlthough B major is usually considered a remote key (due to its distance from C major in the circle of fifths and fairly large number of sharps), Frédéric Chopin regarded its scale as the easiest of all to play on the piano, as its black notes fit the natural positions of the fingers well as a consequence he often assigned it first to beginning piano students, leaving the scale of C major until last because he considered it the hardest of all scales to play completely evenly (because of its complete lack of black notes). Audio playback is not supported in your browser.
