So I am going to show you how that works. Over here is what they call the circle of fest. So why they call the circle of fest is because from here to here is five notes. From here to here is five notes. From here to here is five notes. Like that, actually you can go five notes from C to G to D to A like that. It just goes five notes all around. So if you want you can test it in your piano but, that is why they called it the circle of fest.
Okay, so this looks really confusing here does it? God like these lines coming in here and then some circle here and then a whole bunch of there and everywhere, and then you are just like, “Oh my god [inaudible].”
Okay, so let me break this down for you. This is C and A, this is the middle, this is going to be your center piece. So only look for this for now. This is the major side and this is the minor side. So I have showed you A-minor before in one of my previous lessons. A-minor has a more of a sad sign than this is more like a happy sound.
So think of this as like two sides of me or something. This side is, side to side as happy. So this is minor and that is major. Okay, got that? Okay, good. So the plus sign indicates that it is a major. This is a major scale. And the minor sign indicates that it is a minor scale. Pretty straight forward right? Okay, go.
So as you know there is no, like see how I have a sharp here and a flat here, so this is the guy middle. Everything on this side is sharp. The sharp side, so think of it as likes the sharps and the flats. They were dating one time and then they decided, oh, let us have a break up. And let us put C and A in the middle and they can keep us apart.
So this is the sharp side over there, circle of fest, and this is the flat side, so sharp flat, sharp flat. So Flats obviously looks like that, and flats always look like that. So, now, basically I think the next thing is, I see the mistake I made. See I put Charles Father, it is actually Father Charles. That is not good. I was thinking something else.
Okay like it goes at sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp, A sharp, E sharp, B sharp, is that kind of confusing? Yeah! Just a bit. You are like, “How the hell am I going to remember that?” So pretty much we derived a little saying. So it is absolutely crucial that you learn this saying and it would help if I had this written out properly but, you are not going to bother with that. Okay, so actually it goes like this, Father Charles goes down and ends battle. Got it? Father Charles goes down and ends battle. So try to think of it as Arnold Swarzenegger, he has a son and he is on a battleship above the sky, like kind of floating around and then, he is down there watching sun at the Transas Lake fighting something like I do not know, war something and he is all like the commander. And then he was like, “I am Father Charles, I am going down and end the battle right now.”
Yeah I know that is a really bad impersonation but hey, I will show you guys a lot from there. Okay, so he is all like, “I am going down and like kick some ass and stuff.” So, he is like, goes down and kicks some ass down there. So Father Charles goes down and ends battle, okay? Alright, so it is Swarzenegger ends the battle.
So that is how you get your order of sharps. Father Charles goes down and ends battle. Learn it, do it, think of it as like a tongue twister or something. You have to learn it.
And now let us get the flat side, at B, E, A, D, G, C, F. So backwards to get this, you go, battle ends and down goes Charles Father. So all of this is death, Charles Father goes down and ends battle, backwards, battle ends and down goes Charles Father. So this pattern is completely reverse, see it F here, F here, C here, C here, G here, G there, D-D you get the point.
So, playing not saying okay, battle ends and down goes Charles Father. Say it over to your self and put it together because you are still going to be using that later on, all the time.
So now how this works is, say you want to play C major okay.
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