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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the circle of fifths [rafiki on a clifftop]

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it's like the circle of life just with the fewer lions alright here's our

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question what's the key signature shown above right there and here your [A key signature]

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potential answers....Well the easiest way to figure this

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out is to break out our circle of fifths decoder ring, what? it's the prize found in

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a box of frosted eights, so we're looking for the key that has five sharps but [hand reveals circle of fifths from a box of frosted eights]

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first let's eliminate answer D because there's no such key signature as d sharp

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major we didn't even need our decoder ring for that one but well we kept it on [Decoder ring wearing sunglasses]

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anyway it looks pretty cool now let's go back and start with key of G major which

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has one sharp there next we input the key of D major which has two sharps and

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then the key of A major which has three sharps and finally the key of E major

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which has four sharps that means we can get rid of answer A because we're

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looking for something with five sharps well next up is B major with a quick [Decoder ring showing five sharps detected]

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glance at our decoder ring and we can see it has five sharps bingo but hang on

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that's not one of the potential answers is our super accurate cereal box prize

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malfunctioning well we knew we should have gone with honey bunches of notes [Packet of honeybunches]

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but if we take another glance at our ring we can see it's not malfunctioning

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at all we just forgot to check out our relative minor and while we may be on

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the right track with answer C, B minor is actually the parallel minor to B

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major which means they don't share the same key signature that means our [B minor and B major key signatures]

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correct answer must be B - G sharp minor it's the relative minor of B major and

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it has five sharps and perhaps the most compelling evidence we can present our

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decoder ring says that we're right looks like we've cracked the code now can we

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maybe get a bowl of frosted eight we're pretty hungry over here [Boy eating a bowl of frosted eights]

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