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It often helps to visualize this on a piano keyboard.

So, beginning on A and moving up three semitones, it is clear that C major is the relative major and this has the same key signature as A minor. To find the relative major of a minor key you go up three semitones.

Here is a slightly modified excerpt from my book Essential Music Theory Volume 1: Learn To Read And Appreciate Music.Įach minor scale has a relative major, like a cousin! A relative minor has the same key signature as the major of which it is a relative.

The most important first step in learning about minor key signatures is, strangely enough, to learn the major key signatures! As you will see below, once you have learned these, you already know the minor key signatures.Ĭlick here to learn about major key signatures with sharps.Ĭlick here to learn about major key signatures with flats.