Music 101: Circles

[B3Wannabe]

Get this book: "The Gig Bag Book of Theory & Harmony"

This book will give you guys that are trying to learn some theory an idea of what's going on. One of the things that it talks about is the Circle of 5ths:




I'll add a small lesson later. Until then, look at this image and post your idea of what it means.

[Willing]

God's blessing,

this cicrle show alot of things:

1) it show the circle of fourth we use in gospel if you go around counterclockwise

2) the small letter on the inner circle is the relative minor of the letter of the outer circle. ie A is the relative minor of C

3) the letter directly across from each other uses the same tritone and is the b5 of each other.  
    ie  C and Gb tri tone are E and Bb or vice versa
         C is the b5 of Gb and vice versa.

4) you can find the 7-3-6-2-5-1 progression
     ie.  if you want the 7-3-6-2-5-1 progression of C put your finger on C and count clockwise 5 note (which is B) and move counterclockwise back to C and there is your progression (B-E-A-D-G-C).

This is what I see  when i look at the circle.

pray this help someone.

just would like to thank you for the theory post it really took some suspense out of the way. Mr B3 Wannabe thank u keep up the good work may God Keep blessing you

[Whitetee]

To add to the circle of 5th's and 4ths is this important tidbit. Sharps are assigned to the scales going clockwise FCGDEAB For Example C  has no flats or sharps , next would be G which has 1 sharp F#  , then D which has 2 Sharps  F#, C#   then A which has 3 sharps  F#,C #,G #   and so on all the way around  to C #.   Just keep adding a sharp to the next fifth


The flats are Assigned BEADGCF going counterclockwise  F would have 1 flat which is Bb , then next is Bb which has 2 flats  Bb ,Eb   ..,  then Eb which has 3 flats   Bb , Eb , Ab  and so on adding a flat to the next fourth
all the way around to Cb.

This is a good way to remember the notes of each scale and the sharps and flats which are in each scale :idea:

 I just remember the word bead then add g c f  for flats,  and remember to reverse it for sharps



Hey Rod how do you turn on B3 ?

Greg

[emusiq]

Wow, I never seen a chart like that!  I've seen ones with only the circle of fifths but not with all the relative minors and stuff.  Thanks B3 Wannabe!

[Davelong]

A fun little note: to remember the order of sharps,use the first letter of the following sentence:

# - Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle.

For flats, say the sentence backwards:

b - Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father.


It's easy to remember which way to say the sentence, too:

-The 'sharp' sign(#) looks a bit like the letter "F" as in "Father Charles..."
-The 'flat'    sign (b) looks a bit like the letter "B" as in "Battle Ends..."

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