Introduction to Scales and Key Signatures

Before beginning my Volume 2 Method Book let’s review some ideas that we’ll be working on. You may not understand or remember everything below. You can go ahead and just work on my book without worrying about this but by watching the introduction you’ll absorb a few ideas that might be helpful and you can come back and view this as often as you like. Of course, for a better grounding in theory you’ll want to check out recommended Music Theory Books.

Here are four videos by Brad Harrison via his YouTube channel. In order to understand key signatures you need to understand scales but Harrison’s videos work well in reverse too. For my book, you just need to watch a few minutes of the key signature video to understand a few basic ideas. The rest is all extra for now. Again, just take some info in and review again later.

Bradford Werner
Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.

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