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Circle of Fifths | Homework (Patreon)

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2020-07-15 20:15:31
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This is the homework that accompanies Music Theory for Guitar • Lesson 4 • Circle of Fifths 

This homework gives you worksheets to create every possible major scale using simple rules to remember how the scales gradually add more sharps or more flats.

Feel free to post your questions or a picture of your homework on the Patreon community post for this lesson.

Other lessons in this series:

- Circle of Fifths Lesson

- Practice 1 - Open Position Scales

- Practice 2 - Movable Scales

Check out the Lesson Archive for more Music Theory lessons.

This lesson is part of my Music Theory For Guitar series.

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Solly Sperber

Hi Scott, Completely blown away by my own progression in only a few days. I was wondering though. For the questions on the final page of the homework, should I be figuring this out in my head or should I just look back at the earlier pages? I'm not sure how I would know without writing it all out again

Scott Paul Johnson
>>108257756

The goal would be to try to figure out which scales are which, but it's ok to look back. You could figure it out on scratch paper, but you don't have to. There is only ever one major scale with one sharp and only one major scale with two flats, so it wouldn't hurt to know them that way, but you don't have to figure it out in your head. You'll get more comfortable as you use them more.

Michael Ryan Pingol

Hi Scott, For this lesson, is the goal to be able to understand and fill out the circle of fifths in order to use it as a resource to refer to when answering questions like the ones at the end of the homework? Or is the goal to have internalized/ memorized all of the scales to the point where we can answer those homework questions quickly without needing to refer to the circle of fifths? After completing the homework and practice I feel like I understand the concept and can create the scales, but I don’t feel like I can answer those questions without taking the time to work it out in my head or referring to what I wrote yet. And it seems like this may take a long time. I want to avoid cheating myself by not moving on too quickly, but I don’t know if that’s a reasonable goal at this point. Thanks for your input!

Scott Paul Johnson
>>122304896

Hi Michael - Music Theory is like a holistic system that makes more sense when you use it to make music. This first series kind of dumps all the basic stuff you need to know to get into that holistic territory. For now, its important to understand how and why everything fits together, but not necessarily have the circle of fifths memorized. For now, memorize WWHWWWH and remember how to build a major scale based on a root note. Once you get into chords in a key in Music Theory Monday and other lessons, you'll have a better sense of how useful the circle of fifths is.

Nelson Sharp

I know a lot of us have bought good notes, you should reach out to them and see if they will give you a link for others to buy through, that gives you credit. It was worth every penny to me, I use it for all kinds of stuff, but particularly being able to mess with these pdfs and not have to waste paper is nice!

Jackie

Hi Scott, I have been studying music theory from here and there and everywhere on the Internet for a little over a year. I locked into this course with you and absolutely love it. Everything I’ve learned is now coming together and making total sense. And, I love the homework! You’ve done a great job on it. I’m wondering if there is an answer key to make sure that I’ve done all this correctly on my paperwork.

Konstantin

Wow. I am really surprised how fast you answered that 'E major' requires 4# (11:40 timestamp). Then you easy filled in which three sharps A major scale requires (12:06 timestamp) . I wonder how you do it. Do you look at 'circle of fifths infographic.pdf' or look at your mind ?

Scott Paul Johnson
>>43929690

It’s kind of a memorization thing. There aren’t that many scales out there. The more you use them, the easier it is to remember how many sharps or flats

Hughie McKinney

Working through the homework was going well until I hit the 6#, 7#, 6b and 7b scales. It took a while to work out E# = F, B# = C, Cb = B and Fb = E. Loving the lessons, homework. Really getting a good understanding of scale structures. Now working on memorising the scales...

Andy
>>51308490

I had the same problem in the beginning but now I start to understand this "notation".

Andy
>>43929690

Thanks, that's what I needed to know, I need to memorize this. That's where I got a little bit lost on the last page. With some things I can use the formula but it's not to do for one specific thing. For example question 3 and 4 , etc.

Aman Shah

What a beautiful lesson / homework. I have always wanted to approach music in a solve the puzzle kinda way and I am glad I found Scott. My growth in the past one month musicall-y has been way more than the past few years combined. Thank you Scott!