Grade 2: Keys and Scales
Key signatures, scales, and degrees of the scale. Grade 2 adds new major keys plus minor keys A, E and D (harmonic minor), based on the ABRSM Grade 2 syllabus.
- Identify new major key signatures.
- Recognize the minor keys A, E, and D (harmonic minor).
- Work out degrees of the scale.
Worksheet
Select the correctly written key signature of A major.
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Select the correctly written key signature of B flat major.
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Select the correct key of the melody. A minor E minor G major D major
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Select the correct key of the melody. F major C major B flat major A minor
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Select TRUE or FALSE for the statement: This is the 5th degree of the scale of E flat major TRUE FALSE
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Select the correctly written scale of E flat major, descending.
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Answer Key
- option 1 — A major has three sharps: F sharp, C sharp and G sharp.
- option 1 — B flat major has two flats: B flat and E flat.
- E minor — The melody centres on E and uses F sharp (from the key) plus D sharp as a raised leading note — the sign of E minor (harmonic).
- F major — The melody uses B flat and no sharps, and settles on F — the key is F major.
- TRUE — The note is B flat. The fifth degree of E flat major (E flat, F, G, A flat, B flat) is indeed B flat, so the statement is true.
- option 1 — E flat major descending is E flat, D, C, B flat, A flat, G, F, E flat. The other options leave out a flat (A natural or B natural).
1. Select the correctly written key signature of A major.
2. Select the correctly written key signature of B flat major.
3. Select the correct key of the melody. A minor E minor G major D major
4. Select the correct key of the melody. F major C major B flat major A minor
5. Select TRUE or FALSE for the statement: This is the 5th degree of the scale of E flat major TRUE FALSE
6. Select the correctly written scale of E flat major, descending.