the circular fifths is really easy to create all we're going to do is draw a circle as on the screen and we're going to draw a clock so add in 12:00 as on the screen at the moment and we add in 3:00 we're going to add in 6:00 at the bottom and then 9:00 just so we've got some key points on the clock face and then we add in the other o00 so 1:00 and then 2:00 3:00's already there so 4:00 and then 5:00 6 is already there 7:00 8:00 99's already there 10:00 and finally 11:00 the next thing you need to do is learn the series of letters that are appearing in the top left hand corner of your screen f c g d a e b now there's various ways to remember these um people put together phrases personally I quite like Father Christmas gave dad an electric blanket it's only the first letter of each of those words that we're interested in so we're just going to get rid of all the words there so we just get back down to the correct order so we're back down to f c g d a e and B to recap we've done two things so far we've put together a clock face 12:00 1:00 and so on and we've learned Father Christmas gave dad an electric blanket whatever you do don't forget that order of letters as you probably know C major has got no sharps or flats in the key signature so we're just going to take that out of our order of letters and we're going to pop that at the very top of our clock the word father comes before Christmas so we're going to pop that just before the scene and then G dad an electric blanket all come after the word Christmas so we're going to pop those in order one by one after the C so remember that the C goes at the very top of the clock 12:00 father goes before and then it just goes gave dad an electric blanket in order so just like a normal English sentence now for the other part of the clock where we've got no letters at the moment what we're going to do I'm just going to pop the phrase back up on the screen Father Christmas gave dad an electric blanket and all we do is reverse the phrase so B goes up first then e then a and so on now some people have some phrases for this um I've heard blanket exploded and dad got charred feet however you remember it all you need to know is that it is the original phrase with the letters going in the opposite order now you've probably guessed already what we're going to do but we're going to take the letter B the first letter from our reversed phrase and we're going to pop it onto the first available Notch of our clock however there's a catch as you can see I've add a little flat sign next to it on this side of the clock everything is going to have a little flat sign next to it so the order will be B flat E flat E being the next letter of our phrase and then a flat d flat and G flat now don't worry that we haven't used use the C and the F but that's because all notches of our clock have now been used up and there we go we have a completed circle of fifths all ready to be used to work out what Sharps and flats are in the key signatures of any of the keys that you may decide to use for your theory or compositional work and uh do look at my other videos which will show you exactly how to use the clock itself thank you for listening