Brainlag Plus

Keys and scales to five sharps or flats

Music theory, Keys and scales, 15 minutes

The order of sharps and flats, every key up to five sharps or flats, and the major, harmonic minor and melodic minor scales.

Five sharps or flats

Sharps in a key signature come in the order F, C, G, D, A (then E, B); flats in the order B, E, A, D, G (then C, F).

Sharps: the major key is a semitone above the last sharp.
Flats: the major key is the second-last flat.
The relative minor shares the key signature, three semitones below the major key note.

Sharps	Major	Minor	Flats	Major	Minor
1	G	E	1	F	D
2	D	B	2	B flat	G
3	A	F sharp	3	E flat	C
4	E	C sharp	4	A flat	F
5	B	G sharp	5	D flat	B flat

New at Grade 4: B major, D flat major, G sharp minor and B flat minor.

Five sharps: F, C, G, D, A

The rest of this lesson and its 7 practice questions are in Plus.

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