Wiki Page, Instrumental Music - II: Circle of 5th's - II

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*The second, or upper tetrachord of any ascending major scale becomes the first, or lower tetrachord of a new major scale whose name is derived from the first note, or tone of that tetrachord.

***What does it show?***

*There’s a tonne of information packed into the Circle of Fifths, but it principally shows a map of keys. Starting at the top in C major and moving clockwise, the adjacent keys are the most similar to each other; the only difference between C major and G major is the addition of an F sharp, and to get to the next key, D major, you just add a C sharp.

*As you go round the circle clockwise you keep adding sharps, until you get to C sharp major, which has a whopping seven sharps.

*Counter-clockwise you keep adding flats, right the way round to the heavily be-flatted C flat major. Simples.

THe Circle of 5th's