B Hungarian minor scale on banjo
B Hungarian minor has 7 notes: B C♯ D E♯ F♯ G A♯. Degrees: 1 2 ♭3 ♯4 5 ♭6 7. Formula: W H W+H H H W+H H.
What notes are in the B Hungarian minor scale?
B, C♯, D, E♯, F♯, G and A♯. It has 7 notes; its formula in whole and half steps is W H W+H H H W+H H.
What does B Hungarian minor sound like, and when do you use it?
Minor with a ♯4: gypsy and dramatic. Use it over m(maj7) with ♯11.
Chord progressions to improvise with B Hungarian minor
In Jam mode (the Jam button above) a band of grand piano, upright bass and drums (recorded instruments) plays these progressions as swing, bossa, groove or ballad, and the fretboard lights up the notes of each chord as it plays. It's a backing track made for this scale in B:
- Tonic vamp (i): a Bm(maj7) vamp. A single chord: hear how each note of the scale sounds against the root.
- Two chords (i–II): Bm(maj7) | C♯(4-6-10). The scale split into two chords: the first has 1-3-5-7, the second the other notes.
B Hungarian minor positions on banjo
In G D G B D tuning, keeping the hand in one area of the neck, B Hungarian minor is played in 7 positions:
- Position 1: frets 9 to 12 (starts on the root)
- Position 2: frets 11 to 14
- Position 3: frets 0 to 3
- Position 4: frets 3 to 6
- Position 5: frets 4 to 7
- Position 6: frets 5 to 8
- Position 7: frets 8 to 11
Same notes as
Hungarian minor in other keys
On other instruments
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