F♯ minor has 3 sharps — F♯, C♯, G♯. Here's the signature on the staff, the full scale, its relative major, and the trick to recognize it instantly.
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F♯ minor borrows its 3 sharps straight from its relative major, A major. Beyond the signature, minor keys typically raise the seventh degree into a leading tone, so expect an extra accidental in the music that the key signature never shows.
The F♯ minor scale runs F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D, E. Every sharpened note in the piece takes the key's accidentals automatically, which is exactly what the signature saves you from writing note by note.
F♯ minor shares its signature — 3 sharps — with its relative major, A major, a minor third above the tonic. They use the same seven pitches; what tells them apart is which note the music settles on and treats as home.
F♯ minor has 3 sharps — F♯, C♯, G♯.
The relative major of F♯ minor is A major — it shares the identical key signature (3 sharps).
The F♯ minor scale is F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D, E.
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