Amazing Circle of Fifths


	Amazing Circle of Fifths

Rustee

10-2-2007 11:41 PM

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music, music theory, circle of fifths, circle of 5ths

Rustee says:

This source starts out simple, but gets very in depth. I don't pretend to fully grasp all these applications of it, nor was I able to clip most of them without explanations.

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10-3-2007 12:25 AM

Rustee

Oh yeah, if you have no idea what the circle of 5ths is and you're interested, this guy's explanation is crystal clear.

10-3-2007 12:42 AM

skwirlinator

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</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://home.austin.rr.com/jmjensen/CircleOf5thsFun.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/home.austin.rr.com/img/F36E24D4-A89B-425B-8E3E-24AF645196C1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://home.austin.rr.com/jmjensen/CircleOf5thsFun.html"> A line through the center  identifies notes which are a tri-tone
apart, and the line slices the circle into 2 keys, which are named by moving one
step clockwise from the line (the end points are in both keys). This also sheds light
on how keys are related to each other, by being close or far apart around the circle.
If they are close, then they share a lot of notes.
<IMG width="390" height="325" src="http://home.austin.rr.com/jmjensen/CircleOf5thsTritone.gif" /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://home.austin.rr.com/jmjensen/CircleOf5thsFun.html"> There is no need to write on the diagram where the relative minor keys are, or draw
a separate diagram for minor keys, because they can easily be found </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://home.austin.rr.com/jmjensen/CircleOf5thsFun.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/home.austin.rr.com/img/2892637C-93D6-472D-8AB0-9AAC956C9EDA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://home.austin.rr.com/jmjensen/CircleOf5thsFun.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <B>Rotating</B> an interval line or a  chord shape corresponds to 
<B>transposing</B> to a different key. 
Here we rotate the C major triad shape 4 positions clockwise to get E major:
<IMG width="550" height="300" src="http://home.austin.rr.com/jmjensen/2CircleOf5thsRotate.gif" />
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Reflections are very cool because they always have the property of turning <B>major</B>
triads into <B>minor</B> ones and vice versa! 
First observe the symmetry between C and C<SUB>m</SUB>:
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