How Do You Change Key Signatures Using The Circle Of Fifths?
Designed as a teaching aid for musical theory, the circle of fifths neatly organizes the twelve basic musical keys into a wheel. Students can make their way around the circle of fifths wheel, learning the relationships between each of the different keys. Moving around the circle of fifths chart also makes it easy to understand how to change key signatures because of the clear arrangement of sharps and flats in the circle. Notice the relationship of the keys to one another on the circle of fifths. If you start at one key on the circle and move clockwise, the next key you hit is five whole tones about the previous one. When you start at C, for example, the next key you hit will be G, and the one after that is D. Figure out how many sharps or flats each key has. The circle of fifths often has numbers printed on its inside, and these indicate the number of sharps or flats in each key signature. If you start at C and move clockwise, the number of sharps in a key signature increases by one w
