How to Effectively Practice with Circle of Fourths Patterns

Playing your major scales should be a part of your daily practice regimen.

However, practicing them in a circle of fourths or circle of fifths pattern is even better.

Lets focus more on circle of fourths...The Circle of Fifths / Fourths
The Circle of fifths has a big importance in music theory.
What is The Circle of Fifths?

Some people call it The Circle of Fourths, The Cycle of Fifths or The Cycle of Fourths..anyway.

The Circle of Fifths tells you how many sharps or flats are in a given key. Actually, there are other purposes for the "The Circle of Fifths" like chord substitution or determining the best transition or move (modulation) to another key. But we won't go into that here. You can see the circle of fifths diagram below; The numbers on the inside of the circle show how many sharps or flats would be in the key signature for a major scale built on that note. Thus a major scale built on A will have three sharps in its key signature. Relative minors are shown in blue and you can find accidentals for each key in parenthesis.
While there are 15 Major Key Signatures, bear in mind that three keys are enharmonic;

B is the same sounding scale as Cb, F# is the same sounding scale as Gb, C# is the same sounding scale as Db.

Below you can find the order of sharps and flats. You can see that the order of sharps is circle of fifths and the order of flats is circle of fourths.

No matter you play guitar, piano or any instrument, please just memorize these seven letters in order, that's it! Now you can easly find the number of sharps and flats in a given key. Thank you for watching! Please Rate, Comment, and Subscribe!
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[DIRTYEAGLES07]

Thankyou verymuch

[cwise7]

@DIRTYEAGLES07your welcome ....more lesson coming soon

[labellt]

I am working on chord progressions and I like how you explained the circle of 4ths and the rhythm track that you used. I was able to play along with you.

[cwise7]

@labellt more lesson coming soon

[kozy504k]

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[cwise7]

@kozy504k u r welcome

[lazhen]

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[skrapyd1]

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[heavenlydove1920]

Thanks for the demonstration and detailed written explanation.

[praisethelord20]

To the G

[praisethelord20]

I love this pattern :) I play voicing 9's with this and play it from the c all the way around o

[LadyDwithJC]

Thank you so much for this. I needed this to practice today. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your clips. Thanks again!

[giftedbrother]

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