Tones, Semitones & Your First Key Signatures

The two distances — tone and semitone — that build every scale, and how they explain your first three key signatures.

What's inside

• The two distances at the keyboard: a tone (C to D) and a semitone (E to F), shown on a keyboard diagram
• Every major scale's tone-semitone pattern, laid out from C to C
• Your first three key signatures — C, G and F major — each with its stave, sharp/flat, and explanation
• A table of key, signature, the scale written out, and where the semitones fall
• How the signature applies all the way through a piece, plus a keyboard exercise to prove it by ear