Ever occur to you the math. It helps to remember. All adds up to 7. So if A has 3 sharps, A flat has 4 flats, and of course are the notes that are natural in A. So if you know A, you know A flat and so on.

Order of sharps are F C G D A E B, fat cats get drowsy after eating breakfast.

Number of sharps are G D A E B F C, (Key of G has 1 sharp, F#. Key of D has 2 sharps, F # and C#, etc.) greedy dogs always eat big fat cats.

So G has F#, D has F# and C#, etc.

Now try your rule of 7. Makes for an easy reference.

Ever wonder why sharps and flats are called accidentals? BLACK (dark) keys on a kboard/piano. Not by accident. A minor chord has a flatted 3rd, right. Minor keys and chords lets say in early days, think Salem Mass., were, and can be, dark with a mysterious flavor. Any relationship there?

Raise your hand if you know this stuff. And enlighten us with your own understandings.

@Diamon5 wrote:

Ever occur to you the math. It helps to remember. All adds up to 7. So if A has 3 sharps, A flat has 4 flats, and of course are the notes that are natural in A. So if you know A, you know A flat and so on.

Order of sharps are F C G D A E B, fat cats get drowsy after eating breakfast.

Number of sharps are G D A E B F C, (Key of G has 1 sharp, F#. Key of D has 2 sharps, F # and C#, etc.) greedy dogs always eat big fat cats.

So G has F#, D has F# and C#, etc.

Now try your rule of 7. Makes for an easy reference.

Ever wonder why sharps and flats are called accidentals? BLACK (dark) keys on a kboard/piano. Not by accident. A minor chord has a flatted 3rd, right. Minor keys and chords lets say in early days, think Salem Mass., were, and can be, dark with a mysterious flavor. Any relationship there?

Raise your hand if you know this stuff. And enlighten us with your own understandings.

Whoa!!
Six sharps is key of F# not F and seven sharps is C# not C.
Accidentals are notes not diatonic to the key. The only keys that all black keys would be accidentals are the key of Cmajor and A minor has no black keys as well. eg. F is an accidental in the key of G.
Many terms are used to characterize music and the moods or emotions in may inspire, but black keys? On old Harpsichords and Clavenets the colors of the keys were reverse to what a piano uses now.
Some composers believe that the ‘Sharp Keys’ are brighter than the ‘flat keys’. Marches are commomly written in sharp keys, blues and jazz players prefer flats. This seems to have more to do with the instermentation than anything else though.
If your worried about being burned at the stake avoid the tritone or flat five interval. ( “Diabolis en Musica” or the Devil in Music)
Stick with the ecclesiastical modes, plagal endings (A-Men chord or IV to I). Use a picardy 3rd to end songs in a minor key to a major chord, write songs that are Triad based (father, son, and holy ghost thing) and you should be fine.

Gordo

I assumed the F (no sharps, just a b flat) and C (no sharps or flats) were obvious in the acronyms: Fat Cats = F# and C#. If you look at the sequence you’ll see I was not suggesting otherwise. As far as worried about being “burned” the opposite could not be more true. Minor keys resonate with me more than majors, and I play blues almost always in minor keys. As for the rest, it’s “observational” and apparently helpful to others. The darkness I observed refers to modern times, or modern in regards to modern history. The globe has been spinning a long time and many beliefs, ideas and yes, superstitions change. Questions are the only way any of us grow, even if it’s the same question time after time. I have questions, and from there, I make observations. Amen.

It’s not the sequence that is in error its
Quote “Number of sharps are G D A E B F C, (Key of G has 1 sharp, F#. Key of D has 2 sharps, F # and C#, etc.) greedy dogs always eat big fat cats.”

Number of sharps should read G D A E B F# C#

Gordo

Yes, Gordo. I explained that in the prior post. Are you reading any of this?