Circle of Fifths Book 1

This book presents a novel approach used by the author to reveal to Stalybridge Music Academy students the interconnectivity of the major scales and the repeating pattern of the raised seventh note.

The Circle of Fifths is traditionally taught by sharpening the seventh going up and flattening the fourth going down. This difference, above anything, suggested that C major was the incorrect starting place. Music is a natural phenomenon, it is in the planets that orbit our sun (Bank and Scafetta, 2022).

Being inbuilt into the structure of the universe there had to be an easier way to explain why the sharps are in the order shown on the music? This is where my research started. If it were nature based, then C major had to be midway through a process, not the start of the process. After a little time, I discovered, as many have before me, that the concepts of fifths and fourths hid the journey of the seventh, which is where the changes happened. There are many sevens in the world that play a significant role. There are seven colours in a rainbow, seven different crystal systems and seven planets, the list is extensive as can be seen on the internet (Wikipedia, 2023).