WEEK 5

KEY SIGNATURES
 1. What is a cadence? Name 4.
2. What is an interval?
5 3. Did you have a good exeat?
QUESTIONS 4. What are the three most
common chords used in
------------- music?
5 MINUTES 5. Can you name all the
degrees of the scale? Start
with tonic
EXAM REVIEW
 KEY SIGNATURES

You should be You should be

able understand able to identify
how to work out a and name Major
key signature key signatures
What is a Key?
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No # or b = C Major

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HOW TO WORK THEM OUT
To work out what
the key is for Key
Signatures with
Sharps (#) in them,
look at the last
Sharp and take a G# + one step up = A The Key is A Major
step up! This will be
the key!

KEY SIGNATURES WITH SHARPS

 HOW TO WORK THEM OUT
To work out what the
key is for Key
Signatures with
Sharps (#) in them,
look at the last Sharp
and take a step up!
This will be the key!

KEY SIGNATURES WITH SHARPS

HOW TO WORK THEM OUT
To work out what
the key is for Key
Signatures with
Flats (b) in them,
look at the “second
to last flat!” This will
The Key is Eb Major
be the key!

KEY SIGNATURES WITH FLATS

HOW TO WORK THEM OUT
To work out what
the key is for Key
Signatures with
Flats (b) in them,
look at the “second
to last flat!” This will
be the key!

KEY SIGNATURES WITH FLATS

 WHAT IS
THE KEY?

1 2

3 4
 WHAT IS
THE KEY?
1 2

3 4
 MINOR KEY SIGNATURES
• Each Key Signature has a Relative Minor Key Signature
• Firstly, work out the Major Key Signature like before. If they piece sounds like it’s a
minor one you can work this out by counting down 3 semi-tones.

• This key is Eb Major.

• To find the Relative Minor

Key, count 3 steps down

• The relative Minor Key is C

Minor
CIRCLE OF
FIFTHS
LISTENING EXERCISE
QUIZ
 QUESTIONS

NAME FOUR WHAT ARE THE

CADENCES AND THE NOTES IN A C BLUES
PROGRESSIONS SCALE?

WRITE DOWN THE COMPLETE THE

ORDER OF FLATS CIRCLE OF 5THS
AND SHARPS Level 1 or Level 2
COMPOSITION
OR
CHORDS?
COMPOSITION
1. Compose a piece in Ternary Form (ABA)

- Four bars of A
- Four bars of B
- Four bars of A

THEN using the sheet go through the Theme and Variation Task