as I had to learn the circle of fifths myself lately I wondered if there are any free learning tools around on the net. I didn't find one and programmed one myself. Please take a look here and tell your students about it, in case you like it
Great web site! I know this would be very beneficial to my students, and I will be sure to tell them. I do however have a couple of suggestions. First, I would like to have seen the lessons up front on the home page. There are also some mistakes on the second quiz. In a couple of places, B and D seem to be switched. Otherwise, great job! Good luck on the piano fund
Hey, thanks for your kind words and the suggestions. I will see how it runs and later maybe change the lessons to the homepage. For now I made the links in the text more visible. On the weekend I check quiz 2.
The piano fund is an experiement. Will be interesting if and when the first dollar comes in Yours, Jan
That is a really awesome website. I know that I've been having trouble with memorizing the circle of fifths in my theory classes - I expect this website will be a great help!
(Yeah, I'll definately tell my friends about it.)
When I was learning the key signatures in school, we did do the circle of fifths, but we also learned an easy way to identify the major key.
For sharp keys, go a half step up from the last sharp to get the major key (e.g. if the last sharp is C#, then the key would be D major).
For keys with two or more flats, the second to last flat is the key (e.g., if there are three flats, the second to last one is Eb, which is the major key).
That leaves only F major (with one flat) and C major (no flats or sharps) to remember.
Of course, this doesn't work with minor keys, but I didn't learn about those until music theory class in college.
atoriphile wrote:When I was learning the key signatures in school, we did do the circle of fifths, but we also learned an easy way to identify the major key.
For sharp keys, go a half step up from the last sharp to get the major key (e.g. if the last sharp is C#, then the key would be D major).
For keys with two or more flats, the second to last flat is the key (e.g., if there are three flats, the second to last one is Eb, which is the major key).
That leaves only F major (with one flat) and C major (no flats or sharps) to remember.
Of course, this doesn't work with minor keys, but I didn't learn about those until music theory class in college.
now that method I did learn, but after already memorizing. lol. you could also use the order of flats and sharps (sharp major keys are G,D,A,E,B,F#,C# - FCGDAEB - theres a pattern of sorts that i can see anyway, just gotta start on the 3rd one in the order of sharps, same with flats, but starting on 7 - keys are, F,Bb,Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Cb - order is BEADGCF)
Yours, Jan
