

There are seven major scales and seven minor scales with flat key signature: Key signatures Major and minor scales with flat key signatures There are seven major scales and seven minor scales with sharp key signature: Key signatures

Major and minor scales with sharp key signatures There are only two scales with null key signature: Key signature Major and minor scale with null key signature You can find the order of flats and the order of sharps on the circle of fifths, sharps are clockwise and flats are counterclockwise: Order of flats and sharps on the circle of fifths You can see that the flats and the sharps are written on specific lines or space of the staff (stave ): All sharps and flats of the key signature are written like the order of flats and the order of sharps The key signature can be null (no sharps or flats):īut a key signature can't be a mixture of sharps and flats: Or it can contain from one to seven flats: In the example above, the key signature indicates that all B, E and A notes will be altered in B♭, E♭ and A♭, because the three first flats in the order of flats are B♭, E♭ and A♭. The key signature is always written just after the clefs. A key signature is a set of flat or sharps and is used to notify which music notes that will be altered with flats or sharps.
