What is the connection between keys and music?! Key signatures are the building blocks of which (Western) music is built. They’re a group of notes that sound satisfying to our ears. When played in sequence – do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do – it’s called a scale. When played in a random order, it’s a tune! There are major keys and minor keys. Minor keys are the sad or depressing sounding ones. For example if you wrote 2020 as a piece of music, it would definitely have to be in a minor key, though perhaps with the odd flurry of excitement in a major key, for instance when my mother left wine on the doorstep, or the children went back to school!
I’m a bit of a scale nerd, but not everyone is! I mean, they’re really not that fun to learn. So, in my music room, every key signature learnt and played as a scale or in a piece earns a key ring with the key signature on it, and an awesome little key. Ultimately, learning keys opens doors to playing a broader range of music
