Unlock Secrets to Scales the circle of 5ths is hiding from you

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  • The Circle of 5ths. If you have ever been confused, or don't really get the Circle of 5ths, it's because much of the information to understand key signatures, scales, etc., is missing. Or at least needs some background information to truly understand everything. Adam Smale explains everything in a way that will give you all the background and help you to understand the cycle of 4ths or 5ths in a complete way. If you've wanted to learn some music theory for beginners, key signatures, major scales, minor scales, major scale in all keys, understand the circle of 5ths, cycle of 4ths, or the circle of 4ths explained, sharps and flats, all sharp keys, and all flat keys finally explained, then this video is for you!
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    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 - Intro
    0:14 - Major Scale Formula, why the Circle of 5ths Sucks
    2:39 - All the Flat Keys and notes of each
    10:28 - How to Write a proper Flat Symbol
    11:35 - Continuing Flat Keys
    13:29 - All the Sharp Keys
    22:31 - Where Flats and Sharps Collide & Enharmonics
    28:33 - Where Do Flats & Sharps Occur?
    32:52 - Best Way to Think of Sharps and Flats
    34:45 - What About Minor Keys?
    36:53 - What You Should do Next
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 74

  • @m.vonhollen6673
    @m.vonhollen6673 3 місяці тому +1

    Great stuff! Any serious musician needs to be able to write out all 15 key signatures, without hesitation. There’s 12 notes so there’s really only 12 keys but C#=Db, Cb=B, and Gb=F#; so those 3 keys have 2 names (as they are ENHARMONIC).- You have to get so down with it that if I say “b7 in the key of A?”, you immediately know it’s G. Waste no time! It’s doable and essential. Also be able to name any note on the neck, without hesitation.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +3

      YES!!! Totally. You got it. 100% Thanks for putting it so well.

  • @HigherPlanes
    @HigherPlanes 3 місяці тому +3

    I'll admit I had doubts... I was thinking, "not another circle of 5ths video." but this proved to be very helpful. Kudos, my dude.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +3

      Thanks! There’s too many of those circle videos. This gets to the meat of the matter. And thanks for checking it out.

  • @PJ-ee5mc
    @PJ-ee5mc 3 місяці тому +1

    I am so glad that I discovered you! This a very good lesson and your delivery of this information was spot on. Please keep do what you are doing and know that you are making a positive difference.

  • @PJ-ee5mc
    @PJ-ee5mc 3 місяці тому +2

    I am so glad that I discovered you! This a very good lesson and your delivery of this information was spot on.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +3

      I’m glad you found it helpful. And thanks for the Super!!! You rock!

  • @GuitarQuackery
    @GuitarQuackery 3 місяці тому +2

    Thank you, again, for another great instructional video.

  • @MazRixx
    @MazRixx 3 місяці тому +3

    Good lesson great way to look at this. Seeing the Circle of 5ths in the clock like diagram is a big help too.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      Now the circle makes more sense now, right? Thanks for watching!

  • @jeffereyjimenez6439
    @jeffereyjimenez6439 3 місяці тому +3

    Please, do the other shapes and demonstrate how to connect chord changes with all this. Great video!

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks Jeffery. Just to clarify, what do you mean by shapes?

  • @Andysumm555
    @Andysumm555 3 місяці тому +2

    Wow, every day is a school day ! I see you get BEADGCF in the sharps as well. Thank you for explaining this.

  • @BobHutchins
    @BobHutchins 3 місяці тому +1

    Finally this is starting to make sense. Thanks!

  • @smhill27
    @smhill27 3 місяці тому +1

    Good stuff!! Thank you for sharing.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      Absolutely! Feel free to poke around the channel to see what else you may find helpful learning music, especially jazz.

  • @mattg629
    @mattg629 3 місяці тому +1

    This is a great! Thx!

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks for leaving a comment. I’ve got a bunch of lessons on my channel you might be interested.
      www.youtube.com/@JazzRockswithAdam

  • @user-oe8xk2te5z
    @user-oe8xk2te5z 3 місяці тому +1

    Very good way of looking at 4ths & 5ths! Also impressed with your ability to work from top and bottom with an almost perfect fit in the mid... :)

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      Ha!! Thanks. I got really lucky. Thanks for watching.

  • @PaulGill369
    @PaulGill369 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you

  • @edcrutchfield3447
    @edcrutchfield3447 3 місяці тому +1

    Man if there is a music heaven your going there!🎸thank you for your valuable teaching and patience. You nailed a very difficult subject. Thank you 😁🎸. By the way , how to draw a flat❤️. I/2 a heart 👍

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks Ed! Feel free to check out some of my other many videos while you’re here.

  • @dwaynehendricks7842
    @dwaynehendricks7842 3 місяці тому +1

    Yea, it's as clear as mud!

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      I don’t know how I can be any clearer. What parts do you not understand? Let me help you.

  • @micheldindaine8403
    @micheldindaine8403 3 місяці тому +1

    one can add that the interval btwn the 4th degree and the 7th degree form the tritone that confirme wich key you are in.
    Those mouvements of 4th and 7th set a new tritone each time therefore a new key.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      Absolutely! Yet another way to look at things. Thanks for the comment.

  • @danhusband6154
    @danhusband6154 3 місяці тому +1

    Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father for flats / Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle for sharps

  • @jeffro.
    @jeffro. 3 місяці тому +1

    The formula for Major scale is easier, at least for me, to remember 2 bits or segments (i know there's a word for it) of W, W, H that are joined together by a W.
    That way, it's symmetrical.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      You’re thinking of tetrachords. But you are correct.

  • @deandee8082
    @deandee8082 3 місяці тому +1

    must be for piano, seems different on guitar, I just watched a video of a guy using the notes all on a fretboard it seemed different, he wasn't using the 4th note each time he started over he just used the next note in sequence was it? of course I cannot find the bookmark..

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      It’s not instrument specific. This is information that can be used on any instrument. Apply it to guitar by cycling through in 4ths and 5ths, one new string each day. You’ll remember the cycle if you practice the order of sharps and flats and how to remember it as I talk about in the lesson.

  • @rachibilandi4760
    @rachibilandi4760 3 місяці тому +1

    This is one of great lessons masters don’t share.

  • @georget7028
    @georget7028 3 місяці тому +1

    You can't get flats if you go from C to D etc. You get sharps. On the other hand if you go from C to B etc. You get frats.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      B Major has 5 sharps. Unless there’s a joke in there I’m not getting.

  • @lunartunes4651
    @lunartunes4651 3 місяці тому +1

    Once you got this learned how long did it take you to learn the location of the notes on the neck? How did you learn it well enough to have immediate recall to aid in improv

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      First off, thanks for watching.
      By having to find notes to play chords, scales, improvising, and especially reading music, you simply know the fretboard having to locate all the right notes.
      But there are some things that you can do to shore up grey areas or speed up the process. I have a running 10 Challenge to learn your fretboard you may want to check out. Here’s the video:
      10 Day Challenge: Learn your fretboard once and for all! (Let me help)
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      You can sign up for it here: bit.ly/3ucZhUn
      Totally free and you’ll automatically be emailed a new lesson each day to work on learning your fretboard.

    • @lunartunes4651
      @lunartunes4651 3 місяці тому +1

      I am a huge fan. I don’t know how I missed that opportunity. I just signed up. Thanks so much for your help.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      @@lunartunes4651 No problem!

    • @mikga45
      @mikga45 3 місяці тому +1

      I understand it, but hurts my head just thinking about it. Learning one line or 2 not a problem. I'm 65 years old and this as a whole is over my head. I appreciate the effort you made to lay this out for everyone.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      @@mikga45 I can understand that if any theory is new to you. But I would not give up if I were you. Pick one new string every day and play all the scales in order on that string: adding one flat each time or and one sharp each time like I taught you. You’ll learn it by applying it, doing it rather than only thinking through it.

  • @jeffro.
    @jeffro. 3 місяці тому +1

    It might be more clear if i could actually read the whiteboard on my phone.
    Maybe if i was watching this on my laptop i could see it better, but most videos i watch on my phone.
    No, there is no Cb.
    You never explained why moving in 4ths.
    This is all confusing to me. I've learned SO MUCH theory, but the circle of 5ths (or 4ths) seems too complicated to remember.
    Don't get me wrong, in can use it for all kinds of things, (seeing the I, IV, V, etc, the relative minor/ Major, all sorts of things...), but I can't remember the actual order of the letters.
    Yeah, I can figure a lot out, cuz I know all the notes of all the chords.
    And, when reading music I can figure out the key by using that stupid circle by counting sharps going clockwise and flats going counter-clockwise (from the top).
    But I just can't remember the stupid circle!
    And I can't count in 5ths (or 4ths)!
    I guess I have a mental block when it comes to that confounded "cycle."

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      There most certainly is a Cb. It’s a real thing. It can be anywhere, but most notably in the keys of Gb and Cb.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      …did you try holding your phone in landscape position?

  • @yoheff988
    @yoheff988 3 місяці тому +1

    excellent explanation! I was wondering if you have some kind of a technique to memorize those formulas on a fly?
    What I mean is: I met musicians that are able to spell out every scale with the notes telling you what notes are flats and sharps instantly without pausing for a moment, would love to be able to do that, needless to say that I'm always thing and calculatings in order for me to do so.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      Thanks! There’s only one formula for a major scale. The best way to learn the scales is practice them in the order of flats and sharps because it forces you to learn the notes in them. As long as you practice them all from memory and not looking at a cheat-sheet of some kind. Just follow the concepts I laid out in the video, you’ll be fine.

  • @GuitarJams-zs7yf
    @GuitarJams-zs7yf 3 місяці тому +1

    It sound like you are saying tho practice your scales in notes and not in patterns. If so then can you explain how to practice in notes? I always easily go to patterns.

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      I think the best way to start is up and down each string first, starting on the lowest note in the scale on each string. It doesn’t have to be always the root. And yes, think note names, not patterns.

  • @B3-R
    @B3-R 3 місяці тому +1

    I see the forth step: D flat had six flats you wrote 5 flats , or not?

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      Db does have 5 flats. Yes. Gb has 6b.

    • @B3-R
      @B3-R 3 місяці тому +1

      I see why because continuing to the next is there a D flat marked, this belongs to the next, it's absolutely clear👍 Thanks

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      @@B3-R Glad everything makes sense for you now!

    • @B3-R
      @B3-R 3 місяці тому +1

      @@JazzRockswithAdam yes, thanks

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      @@B3-R Absolutely!

  •  3 місяці тому

    357 AWE

  • @brettrhea9179
    @brettrhea9179 3 місяці тому +1

    Dropping a line

  • @user-jb4ei8hi7n
    @user-jb4ei8hi7n 3 місяці тому +1

    Why the hat ?

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +2

      I always wear a hat! 😀

    • @user-jb4ei8hi7n
      @user-jb4ei8hi7n 3 місяці тому +1

      Indoors ?@@JazzRockswithAdam

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +1

      @@user-jb4ei8hi7n on gigs…yes.

    • @user-jb4ei8hi7n
      @user-jb4ei8hi7n 3 місяці тому +1

      Just wondered, I have a couple of hats but only wear them outdoors on sunny days, to keep the sun of my bald head, good luck with your channel@@JazzRockswithAdam

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому

      @@user-jb4ei8hi7n Thanks! I have quite a few.

  • @rocker8692
    @rocker8692 3 місяці тому +1

    I hate jazz

    • @JazzRockswithAdam
      @JazzRockswithAdam  3 місяці тому +2

      Too bad. But what has that got to do with scales and key signatures? Just basic music stuff…