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Memorize your key signatures as quickly as possible!

Here's another way to look at relative major and minor key signatures. Notice that the letters in each pair are the same as you read from left to right in each row. Also notice that the keys in the green rows will have one letter with an accidental and the other won't.

Once you have the first column memorized, the others should be easy!

  flats sharps
C-a
Cb-ab
C#-a#
D-b
Db-bb
E-c#
Eb-c
F-d
F#-d#
G-e
Gb-eb
A-f#
Ab-f
B-g#
Bb-g