From the course: Bass: Teach Yourself

Key signatures and the major scale

From the course: Bass: Teach Yourself

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Key signatures and the major scale

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- Alright, now for key signatures. So we've learned all these different notes, and if you just play them randomly, how we have been, they sometimes sound a little bit tense. But there are things called keys, where there are collections of notes that sound really good and harmonious together. A key signature is where any sharps or flats that you would have played throughout that key, or throughout the piece of music, are just placed at the beginning next to the clef. And so instead of writing B flat continuously for every B, it's just placed once at the beginning of that piece, or at the beginning of the clef, and then you just always will play that B flat.

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