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B Major Scale

The B major scale has a brilliant, piercing quality with five sharps. Though less common in open-position guitar playing, it's found in pop, rock, and progressive music using barre chords.

Also known as

  • B Ionian

Formula

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Notes

BC#D#EF#G#A#

Diatonic Chords

These chords are built from the notes of the B Major scale. Each degree gets a chord based on the intervals stacked above it.

Explore this scale on the interactive fretboard tool