In this lecture, I'm going to show you my circle of fifths with key signatures chart. Basically, the reason I'm showing you this, I want to explain it just a little bit, because I am going to reference it several times later in the course. So, first we started here, if this is the key of C, right here, you see the C is called a circle of fifths chart because if we go up a fifth musically, above a C, we go to a G, a fifth above a, g is a D, and an a and an E, so on and so forth. If you continue going around the circle, by going by fifths, you'll go around 12 different notes and then you will come back to C. That's why they call it the circle of fifths. There's other there's a couple other things to notice here. In the center here, it says minor keys.

This this A is the relative minor to the key, the major key of C. And what that means is the key of C is the exact same notes as the key of A minor. And in the key of C there's no sharps and there's no flats. So if we move up to G, we'll see one sharp So in the key of G, we have one sharp with B or F sharp, that'd be the seventh note in the scale. You can't get that from looking at this chart. You can also see the E minor is the relative minor to G major. That means E minor and G major are the exact same notes.

So and then it keeps going around. As you can see here, the key of B has five sharps, and it's also the same as G sharp minor. So how do I use this chart, I use this for practicing purposes. Like if I want to practice C major scale position one, I'll start on C and then go around and play that position one in E flat, B flat F, I get I played in all 12 keys. That way I ended up practicing every possible key on the neck. It's very good for you to really learn where all the notes are on your neck as well.

And that's the main reason I wanted to show you what this chart is. It's basically just falling around these notes and I use it for the practice everything whether it's pad tonic chord tones, anything you can think of if it's something you need to practice in certain areas on the neck, go ahead and go and do it around the circle of fifths. So you cover all 12 possible places on the neck, the play. And that's my explanation of my circle of fifths with key signatures chart.