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Hello Steemains! @aehiguese here again with 'learn the basics' lesson 4 for young, aspiring steemians who wants to learn the guitar and also for beginners.

Now, I delayed in posting lesson 4 (four) because i did not want to bombard you guys with so many lessons. My last lesson was majorly on the notes on the guitar fretboard and I am sure, between that time and now, most of you must have learnt and mastered the notes on the guitar fretboard. With that being said, lets jump right into today's lesson.

# KEY SIGNATURE
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Like I said in my previous lessons, in music, there is a use of letters in representing notes and these letters run from A B C D E F G and in between these letters are the accidentals, that is, the sharps and flats (A# or Ab) depending on whether you are ascending or descending.

In every song, there is always a key associated with the song. Now, a song might have more than one key. That is, the key used in starting the song might be different from the one that ended the song.

There are 12 keys in music and each key has several chords (three or more notes played together) in it. There are seven(7) notes in every key. 

**There is a pattern in knowing the notes on a key**. This pattern is the; **Tone Tone Semitone Tone Tone Tone Semitone**

**Note: A tone on the guitar is a two steps jump from whatever note you are on. While a semitone is a one step jump. Example of a tone and a semitone: If you are on fret 5, a tone would mean you move to fret 7 while a semitone would mean you move to fret 6. Same goes for notes as well. If you are on note A, a tone would mean you move to B while a semitone would mean you move to A#. A tone can also be known as a whole step and a semitone can also be known as a half step**. 

# Circle Of Fourths And Fifths
This is an easy and simplified way of learning the fretboard. Starting from the note C, lets get the next seven(7) notes using the Tone Tone Semitone... pattern. A tone from C is a D(C C# D), a tone from D is an E(D D# E), a semitone from E is a F(E F), a tone from F is a G( F F# G), a tone from G is an A(G G# A), a note from A is a B(A A# B). so, from the Tone Tone Semitone... pattern, we have been able to get the seven(7) notes which are: C D E F G A B C. This group of letters shows the notes in the key of C

NOTE: Every first letter is the key. An example is the what we just did. We started from C signifying that we are forming note based off of the Key of C.

The circle of fourth suggests that we take the fourth letter of the previous key and start buiding the next seven(7) notes from it. From our previous example, the fouth note is the F, so our next key is F. So we build from F. A tone from F is G (F F# G), a tone from G is A (G G# A), a semitone from A is Bb( A A# or Bb)... of course, we couldn't use A# because we already have 'A' in the sequence. So, a tone from Bb is C (Bb B C), a tone from C is D (C C# D), a tone from D is E (D D# E) and a semitone from E is F.

**NOTE: The circle of fourth entails that the notes be in flats. So, only keys with flats in it will pop up using this series of fourths method. There is another method that brings out all the keys with sharps and it is called THE CIRCLE OF FIFTHS. The circle of fifths entails that you pick the fifth note on every previous key, starting from Key C, to get the new key. So the fifth note in the key of C is G. So I start building my Tone Tone Semitone...pattern using this method**

# Chord For The day
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# Video For The day
https://youtu.be/JAIEW0WILUY

**THANK YOU FOR READING**.

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