Is Victor Wooten Wrong? Are There Really 30 Keys in Music?

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Today we're going to look at the popular video posted of bass virtuoso and legend Victor Wooten posing the question "How Many Keys Are There?" Spoiler alert: There are 30 different keys.
Or are there??
In this video I'm going to break down the music theory behind this claim and look at the various perspective's on how we might measure the number of musical keys. We'll look at the circle of fifths, the chromatic scale, the number of sharps and flats in a key, double sharps, double flats and a whole lot of other theory concepts.

The original Victor Wooten video is fantastic and can be seen here: https://youtu.be/E3vYVGMgZYY?si=e3FT8iriXGuSE82Z

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Playing in 12 keys
1:48 Enharmonic Equivalency
3:28 Number of Key Signatures
4:09 The Double Sharp Problem
6:27 Why Are These Keys Irrelevant?
7:05 The Circle Of Fifths Problem
10:29 To Infinity And Beyond
11:11 The Gottya Question