![]() Here’s what I mean - let’s say, you picked a key of B major. Whichever notes are accidental in one key will be natural in its ‘opposite’ key (not sure how those would be called in correct musical terms). To add a little something, here’s a little tip about sharps and flats from Victor Wooten.Įasy way to remember this is to see a flat key and a sharp key (with the same note in the name) as sort of opposites, and that amount of accidentals in both of those adds up to 7. Thanks for the lesson Justin! What a great diagram this is. It’s rather a perfect little tool for remembering key signatures, and order of flats and sharps. Based on this Db would have 5 flats, and they would be BEADG. The actual order of flats in the key signature is BEADGCF. ![]() To finish the rest of the explanation, going backwards, from F, so FBEADGCF, although adding a flat to each key starting at B, that is the order of keys according to number of flats: F has 1 flat, Bb has 2, Eb has 3, etc. Realistically those would very rarely be used, C# in particular because it’s enharmonically the same as Db, and (at least in piano) that’s an easier key (5 flats instead of 7 sharps). (Note that after you get to B with 5 sharps, you have F# with 6 sharps, and C# with 7 sharps. So for E, which has 4 sharps, the sharps are FCGD. Starting at the C, the key of C has zero sharps, G has 1, D has 2, etc. Whatever mnemonic you use, the order of sharps is the first letter of the mnemonic: FCGDAEB. Let’s see if I can explain it to you I learned this years ago in piano lessons, and the mnemonic I learned was Father Christmas Gave David An Empty Box.
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