Practice identifying and writing the order in which sharps are added to major key signatures.
Read each problem carefully. Use the order of sharps, F, C, G, D, A, E, B. Write complete answers and show your thinking when asked.
Practice using the sharp order F, C, G, D, A, E, B
Music - Grade 6-8
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Write the full order of sharps used in key signatures.
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A key signature has 3 sharps. Which sharps are included?
- 3
A key signature has 5 sharps. List the sharps in the correct order.
- 4
Which sharp is added fourth in a key signature?
- 5
Circle the correct set of sharps for a key signature with 2 sharps: F sharp and C sharp, or C sharp and G sharp. Explain your answer.
- 6
A student writes a key signature with 4 sharps as F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, and A sharp. What mistake did the student make?
- 7
Look at a key signature that shows F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp, A sharp, and E sharp. How many sharps does it have?
- 8
What are the first and last sharps in the complete order of sharps?
- 9
Fill in the missing sharps in this sequence: F sharp, C sharp, blank, D sharp, blank, E sharp, B sharp.
- 10
A key signature has 1 sharp. Which sharp appears, and where is it in the order?
- 11
A key signature has 7 sharps. List all 7 sharps in order.
- 12
Explain why a key signature with 3 sharps cannot contain F sharp, G sharp, and D sharp without C sharp.