SIX THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MUSIC SCALES Chances are your lessons include scale exercises. And chances are you don’t much enjoy playing them. Very few people enjoy playing scales but they do so much good for our playing that … Continue reading →
How To Tell The Key Of A Song With Sharps In The Key Signature Sharps always occur in the same order in a key signature: F, C, G, D, A, E, B. You can find the key of a song … Continue reading →
What do those sharps or flats mean at the start of a song? They are known as “key signatures” and they announce what key a song is in. If there are no sharps or flats, a song is either in the key of C major or A minor. Every major key has a relative minor key. Watch this short video on key signatures.
Continue reading →Learning to think in all 12 major keys is not that hard compared to learning languages (in fact it is super easy compared to languages!). And since there are 12 months in the year, why not devote one month to learning the key of D, one month learning the key of Eb, and so on throughout the year? At the end of the year you’ll have a pretty good grasp of all 12 keys, and you’ll begin to think in those keys instead of fighting with the sharps and flats as perhaps you used to.
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