What accidentals are used for F# Major?

Question

It would also be really appreciated if you could explain the Circle of Fifths as well as the answer. Thank-You Very Much!

Answer 1

Well, I might as well give you the whole thing, and just for the heads up, F# is the same as Gb, E# is the same as F, and Cb is the same as B:

F# - G# - A# - B - C# - D# - E#  - F#

Now as you should know, a Major scale is constructed from the following pattern:

And just so you know, an accidental is a note which is sharp or flat in the scale. the E# and the like are not considered accidentals, because they aren't really sharp or flat.

whole step - whole step - half step - whole step - whole step - whole step - halfstep

now as for the circle of fifths, do you see how the fifth note in that F# scale I gave you up above is C# ? That is the next consecutive or sequential scale, meaning simply, it is the one that comes next major scale after the F#. So the C# scale would be:

C# - D# - E#  - F# - G# - A# - B#  - C#

next would follow G# and so on. Now you may be wondering why E# is really an F Cb really a B, and so on. In the music scale, there are half steps between every note EXCEPT between B and C and also between E and F. So in order to make things a bit easier when building a scale, you say E#, and later correct it to an F afterwards, just so you get the whole steps and half steps down correctly An accidental is a note which is either sharp or flat in the scale. Now what I was just saying about the E#, Cb B# and Fb does not go by this rule, because they are not really accidentals, they are actually natural notes.. Hope this helps, good luck