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The circle of fifths is quite complicated to some people. Well, for those of you who don't know what the circle of fifth is, it's basically a way of writing down the notes in a scale which tells you the sharpened notes of a scale. Here's how the circle of fifth works: Let's write down the C scale. C D E F G A B C Now, we take the fifth note, in this case, G , and write it down starting from G : G A B C D E F G Now, we sharpen the last note before G , which is F  in this case. Therefore, we get: G A B C D E F# G And that's your G scale. Now, we take the fifth note from G and write down the scale with the sharps from that note. D E F# G A B C D Notice how I've sharpened the F,  because it was previously sharpened. Now we will sharpen the last note from D, which is C, so we get: D E F# G A B C# D Following this routine, we keep going till all the notes are sharpened. Our final result will be something like this:  

Since I'm a guitarist, let's just discuss this in terms of guitar, although it applies to every instrument. So, there's broadly two types of musicians: 1. Basic 2. Advanced Now majority of the population that tries to get into music quits in the first few years. Thus, we categorise them as basic. I know a lot of musicians, many of them are close friends, who are stuck on the basics even while learning from a teacher. The thing is, not all teachers are capable of teaching advanced techniques and styles. Here's something I've learnt over the past few years of being with advanced as well as basic musicians: Many people learn the basics, and perfect the basics, but they stop there. They don't go further. They don't have the willingness to learn more than what they know. This, according to me, isn't right. In case of guitar, the people who I term as basic, learn chord progressions for popular songs and are quite satisfied with it. The general pub