Talk:Circle of fifths

This is a fairly long article. The lede is completely opaque. I read the next paragraph or two, which were clear enough but far from giving the definition. I simply stopped reading. I came here because I had been reading Chord progression and had encountered CoF and wanted to know roughly what it is in order to understand the CP article. Readers shouldn't have to wade through a long text on B just to understand an article on A! Kdammers (talk) 00:26, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Questions[change source]

I have come back and tried again to plow through this article. Here are some problems:

"All major scales have this pattern (tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone)." I don't see this. What about a major scale starting on E?

"Starting a scale on a G means that the F has to be an F sharp" Why?

"Each time we went to a sharper key we took the note which was the 5th note of the previous scale" What does "take" mean?

What does this have to do with the circle shown? Kdammers (talk) 05:09, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]