B Yo scale on piano
B Yo has 5 notes: B C♯ E F♯ G♯. Degrees: 1 2 4 5 6. Formula: W W+H W W W+H.
What notes are in the B Yo scale?
B, C♯, E, F♯ and G♯. It has 5 notes; its formula in whole and half steps is W W+H W W W+H.
What does B Yo sound like, and when do you use it?
No 3rd, with a 6th: open, folk and Eastern at once. Use it over sus2, 6sus.
Chord progressions to improvise with B Yo
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 keyboard lights up the notes of each chord as it plays. It's a backing track made for this scale in B:
- Blues (I7–IV7–V7): 12 bars over B7, E7 and F♯7. The 12-bar blues: three 7 chords with the scale on top. The clash between the ♭3 and the chord's 3rd is the blues.
B Yo on the keyboard
It uses 3 black keys: C♯, F♯ and G♯. On the interactive keyboard above you can hear it, show its degrees or intervals and practice its chords.
Same notes as
E major pentatonic · D♭ minor pentatonic · F♯ Egyptian (suspended) · B major blues pentatonic