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for BMinor...

KOTC, did you get there?

If D is the 3rd note of the B minor scale then B-D is a minor 3rd right?

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Thanks a lot guys.


I think for me, taking it to it's major to do the transpositions is much easier

(The up a majorthird from BMAJOR is D#MAJOR so the answer is D#MINOR)

So .... raising B minor a minor third would simply be D (no sharps/no flats) ... correct?

Correct. But it is best at that point to not think of that note as B major or B minor, but simply as the note B pure and simple. It is too easy to mix up the word "minor" of the scale and "minor" of intervals since ultimately you are dealing with two things: the tonic and the key signature which depends on the relative major key.

So the following is not semantics, but a means of getting more clear thinking, if I were to rephrase your question:

"For the key of B minor, raising the the tonic B gives us D. The new key is the key of D minor."

Think of doing this in the same way that you probably practiced working on intervals between two individual notes, and that the B of B minor at that point is one individual note.