Key & Harmony

Scale Finder

Root note

Scale

the dark default of club music; Camelot A ring

A Natural Minor (Aeolian)

Click any note to hear it, or press play for the whole scale. Relative key: C major (same notes, different home).

Diatonic chords in A Natural Minor (Aeolian)

The seven diatonic chords of A Natural Minor (Aeolian), with triads and seventh chords
Degree	Triad	Seventh
i	Am	Am7
ii°	Bdim	Bm7b5
III	C	Cmaj7
iv	Dm	Dm7
v	Em	Em7
VI	F	Fmaj7
VII	G	G7

Two play buttons per row: the triad, then the seventh chord.

Common progressions in A Natural Minor (Aeolian)

i - VI - III - VII

Am · F · C · G

i - iv - v

Am · Dm · Em

ii° - v - i

Bdim · Em · Am

Every note of any scale at a glance: pick a root and scale type to see the notes, their degrees, the diatonic chords, common progressions in that key, the Camelot code for DJ mixing, and the relative key. Click any note or chord to hear it. Covers major, minor, harmonic and melodic minor, the modes, pentatonics, and blues.

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How Scales Map to the Camelot Wheel

The Camelot wheel is a lookup table for exactly one fact this tool makes visible: which scales share notes. Neighbouring codes differ by a single accidental (C major and G major disagree only about F versus F♯), which is why moving one step on the wheel sounds smooth: six of the seven notes still agree. Same-number A and B codes are relative pairs sharing all seven notes. When you select major or natural minor above, the matching Camelot code links straight into our track directory, so you can go from "what notes are in E minor" to "tracks in 9A" in one click.

Modes Are Rotations, Not New Notes

Dorian, Phrygian, Mixolydian, and Lydian contain no exotic pitches; each is a major scale heard from a different starting note. D Dorian is the white keys starting on D, which is why a house groove in D Dorian mixes comfortably with tracks in C major or A minor territory: the pitch content is identical, only the gravitational center moved. For producers this is the practical takeaway: if a sample feels "modal," find which major scale its notes belong to, and everything diatonic to that scale is safe to layer.

From Scale to Set

Scales are the theory side of what the Camelot wheel encodes for DJs. Detect a track's actual key with the Song Key & BPM Finder, look up its scale here to know which notes live in it, and use the compatibility checker to find what mixes with it.

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Methodology

Last updated May 4, 2026

Author and Methodology

Maintained by Ben Modigell, founder of Vibes. Ben builds DJ library, preparation, BPM, and harmonic-mixing tools for working DJs.

Source: Vibes DJ-tool taxonomy and page logic maintained by Vibes.
Evidence: Page output checked against the current tool behavior and internal DJ reference data.
How this page is made: Tool pages are built from reusable page logic, internal DJ reference data, and visible on-page calculations. Programmatic reference pages are generated from structured data rather than hand-written one by one.

BPM, key, and genre labels can vary by edit, remaster, detection engine, and DJ software. Use these pages as a practical mixing reference, then verify important tracks in your own library.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Pick the root note and the scale type above; the notes appear immediately with their scale degrees underneath. Major and natural minor selections also show the Camelot code DJs use and the relative key that shares the same notes.

Start with the scale the key names: a track in A minor wants A natural minor (or its pentatonic subset for safe melodies). If you know the track's Camelot code from our key finder, A-ring keys are minor scales and B-ring keys are major scales with the same number sharing notes.

They contain exactly the same notes but treat a different note as home: C major and A minor share all seven pitches. That is why they sit at the same Camelot number (8B and 8A) and mix perfectly into each other.

Natural minor dominates club music, with Dorian close behind for house grooves and Phrygian for harder techno tension. Pentatonic subsets are the workhorse for hooks and toplines because they avoid the clash-prone notes.

Stacking thirds on each degree of a major scale gives seven diatonic triads with a fixed quality pattern: I major, ii minor, iii minor, IV major, V major, vi minor, vii diminished. In C major that is C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, and Bdim. Add another third and you get the seventh chords: Cmaj7, Dm7, Em7, Fmaj7, G7, Am7, Bm7b5. The finder above derives these for any root and plays each chord.

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