Thursday, December 24, 2009

Circle of Fifths (5ths) Minor


The Minor circle has many tricks to remember its order
but since we know the Major Circle of Fifths we can easly relate it to that considering you need to know yor relative major/minor keys anyway you can combine the two in your head to know both and their relation to each other.

to get the number of SHARPs for the minor side, just subtract 3 from the major so B major is 5 #'s and B minor would be 2 #'s.

you also might notice that C & F# in Major at at zero and 6 and in minor C falls at 9 o'clock and F# at 3 o'clock and because everything has been shifted to A from C.

for both circles I remember D, A, E at the top B,F#,C# on the right, Bb,D#,G# on the bottom and G,C,F on the left.

Remembering them in blocks like that seems to help with quick recall.

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