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Circle of 5ths

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Major Keys
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The Circle of 5ths

The well known Circle of 5ths is a useful tool to find key signature's 'at a glance' and helps us understand the 'mechanics' of music. Can you remember how to find the relative minors?

0Did you know there are up to 30 key key signatures to memorize for music exams. Fortunately there is a way of calculating them all from knowing just seven. These are the major keys of the seven musical alphabet notes A-B-C-D-E-F-G and to help us do this we give these keys numeric values.

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The Circle of 5ths
circle of 5ths

 Count down 3 semitones from the major key to find the relative minor
key signatures

0Did you know there are up to 30 key key signatures to memorize for music exams. Fortunately there is a way of calculating them all from knowing just seven. These are the major keys of the seven musical alphabet notes A-B-C-D-E-F-G and to help us do this we give these keys numeric values.

Click here to find out

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