

Key signatures are always written in a particular order and on specific lines or spaces on the staff. The greatest number of sharps or flats you can have in a cluster is 7. Key signatures will have a cluster of sharps, or a cluster of flats, but sharps and flats are never mixed.Ĥ. Every major scale shares its key signature with a minor scale.ģ.

There is one major scale for every key signature.Ģ. The following is a list of things which are true for all key signatures:ġ. So, although a major and minor scale may have a different order of notes, they share all of the same notes in general, which means that they’ll share a key signature.

However, scales are set in their order of notes, while keys refer more to the notes as a group. A key signature is a kind of musical notation wherein flats or sharps are arranged on particular lines or spaces on a staff to indicate that the corresponding notes should be raised or lowered by a half step depending on which key you’re in.Ī key includes a series of tones and semitones and is very similar to a scale.
