Master the Circle of Fifths and All Keys in One Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- In today's lesson, I will be showing you how to master the circle of fifths and your key signatures. Follow the technique outlined later in this lesson to learn your key signatures and know them like the back of your hand. You will also learn how to memorize your order of sharps and order of flats. These will help you master what sharps and flats exist within a key. Learning the circle of fifths is helpful as a music student. You will be able to use it when you play music, when you improvise, and when you play in a group with other musicians. Remember that there are major keys (sound happy), and minor keys (sound sad). This lesson is geared for music theory and piano students alike.
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Brilliant !
FATHER CHARLES GOES DOWN AND ENDS BATTLE.---SHARPS
BATTLE ENDS AND DOWN GOES CHARLES FATHER---FLATS
DANIELLO DE LAURENTIIS
Back in grade school our teacher taught it to the class as: "Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle" which also works backwards as "Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father". 30 years later, I still remember it this way :)
I like those, I think someone told me that one awhile back.
@JellyGamer just roll with it lol! 😝🤣👌
I am taking music Theory 101 and we just started going over key signatures. This is extremely helpful and you did a fantastic job of teaching this material. I came up with my own mnemonic for sharps. First Class Girls Don't Associate with Every Boy. I know I had to throw with in there but I ignore it because there is no W note.
This is the only video that ACTUALLY taught me the circle of fifths without making me confused lol
I have it memorized now as a chant:
A 1: Father Cant Get Down And Eats Beads
A 2: BEAD GCF
A 3: If the key Signature has sharps to find the key go up 1/2 step from the last sharp key within the order of sharps.
A 4: If key signature has flats; The next to last Flat key within the order flats is the key, only works when 2 or more flats are shown otherwise 1 flat key signature = the key of F.
Awesome video thank you
I was absolutely MIND BLOWN when you showed me the trick for the sharps. and flats to remmeber what key you're in. I had always mixed up the key of Ab and the Eb buy you've made it so much easier. Thanks!
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Hi Maestro ...I just wanted to thank you for your Great Work..and your teachings...God Bless You
I find this memorizing time good:
# = F, C, Good, Day, And Evevning Blast
b = B, E, A, D, Grand, Compact, Feel
FC like FC Barcelona and the rest in the sharps is improvised.
The grand compact feel is Kawai’s key mechanism & the word BEAD is an actual word.
I get it now!! I've never understood how the Circle of Fifths work, and this was a last-ditch effort to teach myself before my band final. Thank you so much!!!
You are welcome!
RE / Circle of Fifths ( vs by ear.... a dif chapter....)
A. you have to have a algebra and geometry understanding. ( the names are fictitious, that why the naming is with odd order)
B. the explanation nomenclature could be fixed better by a modern science Engineer'.
C. Music not an exact defined science yet , all theory , it get deeper , see RF
D. 12 chro. sounds total , with steps and halfs steps with that " mark the musical key " Circle of Fifths is one of many explanation to predict or map the cyclic rotation.
note standard tuning on a guitar , A 440 Gsharp , and I still see " clown faces on so called pro's and experts " when I say this.......
yes the 2 thinnest strings are sharp on a guitar std. ( I would guess 1/128 of a step?)
The guitar cheats , ( tuning , a valid method) vs a piano which is laid and made perfect in tuning . go's to show you this is no rule (law) by any means, but a good foundation.
see / slide / whammy bar
see / geometry factors / fractions
One mite say , " Add the Golden Means # number , and you will be well tuned~ "
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I figured an alternative technique for finding what key you're in based on how many flats are in the key signature. Count the flats like this 1:F 2:B 3:E 4:A 5:D 6:G 7:C Which is just the order of flats but the F is first (F for first).
I like that! Thanks for sharing.
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Wow, you're a genius... You totally taught me how to identify key signatures by looking at stave alone, fir sharps and flats. You just liberated me. God Bless!! Oh and this is how I will never forget Orders again: BEAD+Guys Can't Forget.
Very useful. Another tip my music teacher gave me is to use the tonic scale and count one step up from the LAST Sharp (Tee) for the sharp key and count four back (Faa) from the last flat. So, if we find a the last sharp is a C (tee) we go up one to the Do (D). If we find the last flat is a B (Faa), we count back, Mee, Ray, Do to find the key is A Flat.
Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battles. Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father. ;)
Just saw this and im sure it will help me memorise key signatures much faster. Thank you for sharing this much respect keep doing what you doing hope everything is going well for you!
I have been playing for years and have never understood the circle of 5ths. Your videos are a Godsend.
Awesome to hear Rici.
Thanks to you I should be able to learn piano and write music a bit easier as I fully understood your lesson.
What I am going to use for the flat key signature is BEAD Gets Crushed Flat and for the sharp I just memorize that sharps are just the inverse of flats
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Awesome video man thank you. I actually learned something from this one. Figuring out which Major Key has your number or sharps or flats, great tip.
How come no one ever mentions the fact that the order of sharps and flats is on the circle of fifths tho?
If you know the order of sharps start at F and the flats start at B.
Start on F and go clockwise you have the order of sharps.
Start on B and go counterclockwise and you have the order of flats.
Merci for this.
BTW I downloaded a Circle of Fifths chart that had two mistakes. I watched your video and was confused when I tried to compare it with my chart, I had to rewatch it and discovered the mistake. You make sense out of a difficult subject for a newbie to music.
the saying for the orders we learned in band is father charles goes down and ends battle, and it works in reverse for the flats as well. battle ends and down goes charles' father. I found it to be really helpful.
You helped me more than my actual professor. Thank you.
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Very nice lesson! One confusing thing is the 'going up 5', because an interval is really a span of notes. When they say 'going up', it just doesn't work like that. If we're on C, then going up 'four' relative to C, gets us to 'G'. When we say 'go up five' from 'C', then it becomes confusing. It should really be going up "span minus 1" (or interval number minus 1) from C. Eg. if the interval (span) is five notes, then going up an interval of 5 (relative to C) actually means starting from 'C' and include C in the span of five, which is C-D-E-F-G. So basically, intervals are not 'distances' between notes. Instead, an interval is a span of notes.
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I find a good way to memorize which sharps and flats to play with a key signature is to visualize it.
Imagine the “C” scale on the piano; you have a group of 3 white and 2 black keys and next to it a group of 4 white and 3 black keys.
If you have a scale with 1 sharp (G), that sharp is the left most black key in the group of three. With 2 sharps (D) you add the left most black key in the group of 2. With 3 sharps, add the next left most black key in the group of 3, with 4 sharps add the next left most key in the group of 2, with 5 sharps add the last black key, with 6 add the left most WHITE key in the group of 4 white/3 black and finally 7 sharps the left most white key in the group of 3 white/2 black
For flats it is the same except this time it’s the right most. So 1 flat is the right most black key in the group of three, 2 flats, add the right most black key in the group of 2 etc.
It helped me. Hope it helps you
I grew up playing the violin, and my teacher and I both had cats. As I was just learning at the time I memorized the order of the first 4 sharps and flats separately and then combined them, so for sharps it was: Fat Cats Good Dudes (AEB) and for flats the letters spell the word bead so: B E A D (GCF). Every time we played a new song she would ask me what key we were in, and I never had the answer BECAUSE I never learned the relationships between the sharps and flats and the Key signature. I played for 7 years from ages 5-12 and never knew what key signature I was playing in. Now I'm a Music Business major in college, taking theory 1 and the fact I never learned key signatures is biting me in the behind (I have a test tomorrow and I'm cramming hard on key sigs). WORD FROM THE WISE: LEARN YOUR KEY SIGNATURES AND NEVER EVER FORGET THEM!! p.s. if you are a woman, or you play an instrument ONLY in the table clef, take the time to learn how to read in bass clef as well ESPECIALLY if you plan on having a career in music (or even if your are remotely interested) if I had learned this stuff earlier my Theory class would be a breeze!!
This is a great tutorial! I haven't had a lesson for 20 years but I don't think my teacher showed it this way. Makes loads of sense!
Thanks a lot Gideon. Glad I could help!
Thank you . . . This is the clearest and simplest explanation and demonstration of the Circle of 5ths I have ever encountered. I will be sharing this with my piano students.
Circle of Fifths is pretty dense info and you have done the best job of any (many) videos I've watched. It is taking me a few times through but more and more is apparent. Thanks for the share.
My 2 cents :
Actually you don't have to memorize that Key F has B flat. With BEADGCF, just imagine that when you go one before B, it goes all the way back to F which is the end of BEADGCF. So, just memorizing BEADGCF for flats and FCGDAEB for sharps is enough :)
indian ninja haha love the name
I keep revising your videos time and time again , your way of explaining things is very helpful
Learned these in 5th Grade music theory class from a music teacher at a Parochial School. I have never forgotten. Thanks Miss Kramer!
Sharps F,C,G,D,A,E,B - Fat Cops Get Donuts At Every Bakery
Flats B,E,A,D,G,C,F - Beat Every Ass Don't Get Caught Fleeing
Incredible teacher👍 God bless you teacher
I watched many videos on circle of fifth but none made me understand...but you made it clear to me sir.
Best video keyboard/piano lesson out there.
Very, very informative and simplifying. Thanks!
Thanks for the trick to figure out the key signature without memorizing the circle of fifth. Your video helped me heaps!
You are very welcome.
I remember when I first saw the circle of fifths. It was really intimidating initially, but your vids made it easy to understand . Thanks Tim
You are welcome Rich! Glad you like it. I spent a lot of time making this lesson.
Cool tips. The circle itself tells us the sharps and flats in each major key. For sharps, start from F major and move clockwise. So the first sharp in G major is F#. The two sharps in D major are F# and C#, etc. For flats, we start from Bb, and move counter clockwise. Bb is the one sharp in F major. Bb and Eb are the two flats in Bb, etc. If you need a good explanation of this, check out David Bennett's channel for circle of fifths.
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my thoughts, exactly.
Thanks so much! I have a music final next week and this has really helped!:)
On the subject of the circle of fifths, I found a useful way of remembering how many sharps and flats occur at each key.
One needs to imagine that it is a clock who's hands go in both directions with 12 o'clock being the key of C with no sharps. At 1 o'clock there is 1 sharp (F)
At 2 o'clock there are two sharps (F&C) and so on to 7 o'clock.
Now we work the hand traveling anti clockwise with 1 o'clock being in the place of 11 and 2 o'clock replacing 10 and so on.
Working anti clockwise at 1 o'clock there is 1 flat (Bb), at 2 o'clock, 2 flats ( Bb & Eb)
Another way of remembering the order of sharps is to learn this rather silly rhyme: Fat cats go down allys eating bread. (F,C,G,D,A,E,B)
Regarding the flats just spell out BEAD and add G
Hope this is helpful to your other students Tim.
Regards, John Warren ( a rather mature beginner student of 74 years)
From Fareham UK.
Absolutely the best explanation I’ve ever come across!
Thank you so much
Father Charlie’s goes down and end battle
That seems good😊
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Thank you for this! Been studying piano by self and this has been extremely useful!
Father Christmas Gave Dad An Electric Blanket / Blanket Exploded And Dad Got Cold Feet
Mary Mills That’s the one I remember too except Dad Got Charred Feet lol.
Of course you may Sam, my version or Mary’s. I believe these are publicly known in the UK, I didn’t invent these anyway lol.
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I have a music final on Tuesday! This helped me soo much! Thank you!
Excellent lesson. You were very thorough. Thx
My Numonics for Sharps:
Father Christmas gave dad an electric blanket.
Flats:
Blanket exploded and dad got charred feet.
I like these! Thanks for sharing.
Great video, helped a lot! I never realized how easy it was to remember the sharps and flats, I’ve been struggling with trying to remember them
I never could make use of circle of 5ths until i watched this. Thanks 👍
You are welcome. Glad I could help!
Finally, someone who can make this comprehensible! Good job, my man. Thank you!
comprehendible - don't worry though English is a dumb language.
so interesting. so this is how the keys got their DELICIOUS names!
Thank you so much for showing me your technique, this really did help me understand the circle of fifths
FCGDAEB
Four Cops Got Drunk At Eddie's Bar!
Thanks for the vid
I like that one!
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Fat Children Gather Daily At Every Buffet :-)
Amazing truely amazing thank you so much plz don't ever take this video down
Why couldn't my music teachers explain it this way? This, I totally get. Thanks for your vids they've been very helpful.
That was a great class...thank you so much....
When I was a kid, my guitar teacher taught me the order of sharps as "Fat Charlie Gets Drunk After Every Beer"
Haha, I really like that one!
I like the graphic with major AND minor keys. Nice and thank you. Some people fail to show this. It can really mess up the arrangement of a song when transcribing if you fail to have the proper key.
I just loved when we had altered arrangements of orchestra pieces whose composer chose to transcribe the arrangement in A flat major instead of F major. WTF. Not fair.
When the change was made, I couldn't believe how many natural and sharp signs were added to the piece. Begs the question, why not choose another key????? But then these composers lived like 200 years ago and didn't have the help of computers.....
Thanks ,this lesson realy shed light on the circle !
Well done!! Thank you for taking the time to make that for everyone.
Cinematic Orchestra - good choice!
Your legit man, really appreciate the help you've given us
By Far best video ive seen on this topic ! Keep up the good work man it will pay off
Thanks a lot, I will definitely keep it up!
Thank you. You really made this simple.
Thank you so much, i have stumbled into this today and it's been super helpful.
I really needed this and you made it super easy to understand! Thanks a lot!!!
Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle. Battle Ends and Down Goes Charles' Father
Oops. Someone else already said this. :P
Such a great teacher! Thank you for your amazing work!
Wow! Completely helpful and awesome! Thank you!!
For memorising sharps what I do is find the last sharp you have then move up two if you have none move up to c if you have one it’s g and so on
For flats I go back one letter so if you have 4 flats you count up to d then go back to e if you have 6 flats cont up to c then go back to g
I absolutely love this! Thank you so much!!!!
You are very welcome!
This is totally helpful. Thanks!
Fine Cheerleaders Get Dates After Every Ballgame (for sharps) & Brownies Eaten All Day Get Children Fat (for flats). Thanks for your lessons! They are very helpful.
Ding ding ding. Thank you.
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Love your channel! Thanks so much.
Hi there. I am a beginner (started learning January 2017). Your video has really helped me understand the circle of fifths and how to use it.
However, at the end of the video you say you will reveal the answers to those four test questions, but you haven’t. I know I got them all right because I have watched this 4 times now before understanding it all😂
It can definitely be a lot to take in all at once, so it's smart watching the lesson a few times. I am glad you liked this lesson, this seems to be a favorite among my students!
Thank you very much! You're awesome!
Thank you! It is very helpful!
Subbed! Thank you so much! Such great content, explained easily!
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I concur.
Ur much better than anyone else at explaining than anyone else
Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battles. lmao great video brother thanks a lot!
B,E,A,D,G,C,F are on bass, B-standard tuning and D-standard tuning
As a accordion player its easy to learn the circle of 5ths as the left hand f clef is arranged in circles of 5ths.
god you made my life so easy thank you so much for helping me
Great video man, very helpful. Thanks!
A friend of mine, in one of my college music theory classes, shared this saying for the order of #s: Fat College Girls Don't Always Eat Breakfast!! Its always worked for me! lol
Janine Yates
haha, I like that one!
doesn't make sense backwards
Yeah but it’s easy to remember. I like Fat Chicks Get Drunk After Eight Beers. Heard it once; never forgot it.
This is a fantastic video thank you
Great review