Key signatures designate notes that are to be played one semitone lower or higher and consist of a series of sharp or flat symbols. Normally, they appear directly after the cleft sign.
The major key signatures are as follows:
G major with one sharp, D major with 2 sharps, A major with 3 sharps, E major with four sharps, B major with five sharps, F sharp major with six sharps, C sharp major with seven sharps, F major with one flat, B flat major with two flats, E flat major with three flats, A flat major with four flats, D flat major with 5 flats, G flat major with six flats, C flat major with seven flats.
The minor key signatures are the key of a minor with no sharps or flats, the key of e minor with one sharp, the key of b minor with two sharps, the key of f sharp minor with three sharps, the key of c sharp minor with four sharps, the key of g sharp minor with five sharps, the key of d sharp minor with six sharps, the key of a sharp minor with seven sharps, the key of d minor with one flat, the key of g minor with two flats, the key of c minor with three flats, the key of f minor with four flats, the key of b flat minor with five flats, the key of e flat minor with six flats, the key of a minor flat with seven flats.
* Identify The Key Signatures
A game that will ask you the Major Key Signatures and what's the relative Minor?
http://www.emusictheory.com/practice/keySignatures.html
* Key Trainer
A game on Ricci Adams' site
http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id83_en.html
* Key Signatures Construction
Add sharps or flats to form the correct key signature
http://www.teoria.com/exercises/kc.htm
* Key Signatures Identification
Identify the key signature you see
http://www.teoria.com/exercises/ki.htm
* Theory Center- Key Signatures
Worksheets to help drill key signatures
http://www.practicespot.com/theorycenter.phtml?cat=8
* Identify the Key Signature
Multiple Choice Exercise
http://www.musictechteacher.com/quiz_identifykey001.htm
* Learn the Secrets to the Circle of Fifths
http://www.jamesmstevens.com/circleonthecircle.html
* Musical Key Signature Sugar Packets
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sugarpacketchad/626579724
http://www.LadyDpiano.com
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