WinterPerfect said:
'Em' stands for minor.. Did you mean relative minor of 'E major'? If that's the case, the relative minor to 'E major' is 'Dbm'. The triad (plus 7th) of 'Dbm' would be Db - Fb- Ab and C (the 7th).
The notes of Db minor are: Db - Eb - F - Gb - Ab - Bb.
Relative minors do not have the same keysignatures. 'E major' has 4 sharps but 'Db minor' has 5 flats. There are a few ways to learn the sharps and flats.. I recomend just googling for "The cycle of fifths" and learning them by heart.
Hope that helps!
Whoah! Don't confuse the guy!
If he were trying to say the relative minor of E major, it would be C# minor, not Db minor. Granted, they are enharmonic spellings of the same triad, but the key signature for E major is four sharps (F#, C#, G#, and D#). So you'd call it a C#m and definitely not Dbm.
In regards to the original post, minors have relative majors, and vice versa. Minors don't have relative minors.
To find the relative minor of a major key, you count up to the 6th degree of the major scale. For example, to find the relative minor of G major, count up to the 6th degree of the G major scale: G (1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D (5) E (6). Em is the relative minor of G major.
Relative majors and minors always share the same key signature. Please don't pay attention to the second post. I don't know why he called Db minor the relative of E major. This is wrong.
Pretty much everything he said about the "key of Dbm" is wrong. He said the scale was Db Eb F Gb Ab Bb. These are notes from a Db MAJOR scale (and it's incomplete; it's missing the 7th.) He also said the key of Dbm has 5 flats. This is wrong. Db MAJOR has 5 flats.
So, anyway ... yes relative keys will always share the same key sig.