Key & Harmony

Scale Finder

the dark default of club music; Camelot A ring
A Natural Minor (Aeolian)Camelot 8A
A
1
B
2
C
♭3
D
4
E
5
F
♭6
G
♭7
Relative key: C major (same notes, different home)

Every note of any scale at a glance: pick a root and scale type to see the notes, their degrees, the Camelot code for DJ mixing, and the relative key. 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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Maintained by Ben Modigell, founder of Vibes. Ben builds DJ library, preparation, BPM, and harmonic-mixing tools for working DJs.

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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.