Just for now, remember that, Fat Cats Go Down Allies. I don’t think I’ll take those up right now, we’ll take them later. There’s two more, but they involve some white keys, some white note keys. F-sharp, C-sharp, G-sharp, D-sharp and A-sharp. F-sharp, C-sharp, G-sharp, and D-sharp, and A-sharp. If you can remember Fat Cats Go Down Alleys, you have just remembered the five sharps. They’re five scale notes up from each other. It uses all of the black keys, so it’s very easy to remember. They’re a fifth apart, aren’t they? F, C, G, D.įive sharps is the key of B, which goes like this.

Notice a pattern yet? Up five notes, up five notes, up five notes. The four sharps now are F-sharp, C-sharp, G-sharp, and D-sharp. It has the F-sharp, the G-sharp, the C-sharp, and the D-sharp. The fourth, the key that has four sharps, let me play it down here, starts on E. So far, the three sharps are F-sharp, C-sharp and G-sharp. The key of A has C-sharp in it and F-sharp in it, but it also has G-sharp in it. The third key is the key of A, which has three sharps. I know this sounds confusing at first, but you’ll understand in a minute. Now we’re going to take the key of the third key. What was the first sharp? F-sharp, right? That was in the key of G. The second one is the key of D, which has two sharps. There’s one sharp in the key of G, and it’s F-sharp. If you come to a piece of sheet music and you don’t see any sharps or flats at the beginning of the line of music, it’s in the key of C because it’s based on that scale of C, which goes like that. As you can see, there’s no sharps or flats in that key. It’s really, really simple, but music theory sometimes makes things more complex than they should be.įirst of all, let’s start with the key of C. Not only that, you’ll remember the order of them and why. How do I know how many sharps or how many flats are in each key? Well, it’s real, real simple and at the end of this short video today, you’re going to be able to know how many sharps there are in each sharp key and how flats are in each flat key. Have you ever wondered how many sharps or flats are in each key? A lot of people ask me that. Here is a transcript of the video if you would like to follow along: How Many Sharps Or Flats Does Each Key Have?

Order of sharps and flats