Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Start harmonic mixing today with Mixed In Key: mixedinkey.com/?c=bennett
Harmonic Mixing is when DJs create smooth, satisfying transitions between songs by selecting tracks that are either in the same key as each other, or in closely related keys. But how do the DJs know which keys are closely related? Well, the same way that musicians do... with the Circle of Fifths! But DJs have their own name for this music theory tool, the "Camelot Wheel".
Thank you to all the DJs I talked to to help inform this video, especially Yakov.
SOURCES:
ultramaroon.net/harmonic-keys-issue-1
mixedinkey.com/book/how-to-use-harmonic-mixing/interview-with-mark-davis
mixedinkey.com/camelot-wheel
My debut album UNDER AN EMPTY SKY is out now on VINYL, CD and DOWNLOAD:
davidbennettpiano.bandcamp.com/album/under-an-empty-sky
And, an extra special thanks goes to Chase Heeler, Richard, Megawaddledoo and friends Inc., Peter Keller, Douglas Lind, Vidad Flowers, Ivan Pang, Waylon Fairbanks, Jon Dye, Austin Russell, Christopher Ryan, Toot & Paul Peijzel, the channel’s Patreon saints! 😇
SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: patreon.com/davidbennettpiano 🎹
0:00 The Camelot Wheel
1:10 Relative minor
2:00 Closely related keys
4:25 Harmonic mixing
6:07 Mixed In Key
7:01 Diagonal changes
9:19 Modal changes
11:25 Pitchshifting tracks
11:50 Who invented the Camelot Wheel?
12:35 Circle Of Fifths vs. Camelot Wheel
14:00 Key changes in DJ mixes
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What Do You Mean? by Justin Bieber, https://t.lickd.co/l/L2WQOMMX4Pr
🎵 Copyrighted music licensed from Lickd. lickd.co
Human by The Killers, https://t.lickd.co/l/vmp55XGRpVz
Start harmonic mixing today with Mixed In Key: mixedinkey.com/?c=bennett
Harmonic Mixing is when DJs create smooth, satisfying transitions between songs by selecting tracks that are either in the same key as each other, or in closely related keys. But how do the DJs know which keys are closely related? Well, the same way that musicians do... with the Circle of Fifths! But DJs have their own name for this music theory tool, the "Camelot Wheel".
Thank you to all the DJs I talked to to help inform this video, especially Yakov.
SOURCES:
ultramaroon.net/harmonic-keys-issue-1
mixedinkey.com/book/how-to-use-harmonic-mixing/interview-with-mark-davis
mixedinkey.com/camelot-wheel
My debut album UNDER AN EMPTY SKY is out now on VINYL, CD and DOWNLOAD:
davidbennettpiano.bandcamp.com/album/under-an-empty-sky
And, an extra special thanks goes to Chase Heeler, Richard, Megawaddledoo and friends Inc., Peter Keller, Douglas Lind, Vidad Flowers, Ivan Pang, Waylon Fairbanks, Jon Dye, Austin Russell, Christopher Ryan, Toot & Paul Peijzel, the channel’s Patreon saints! 😇
SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: patreon.com/davidbennettpiano 🎹
0:00 The Camelot Wheel
1:10 Relative minor
2:00 Closely related keys
4:25 Harmonic mixing
6:07 Mixed In Key
7:01 Diagonal changes
9:19 Modal changes
11:25 Pitchshifting tracks
11:50 Who invented the Camelot Wheel?
12:35 Circle Of Fifths vs. Camelot Wheel
14:00 Key changes in DJ mixes
🎵 Copyrighted music licensed from Lickd. lickd.co
What Do You Mean? by Justin Bieber, https://t.lickd.co/l/L2WQOMMX4Pr
🎵 Copyrighted music licensed from Lickd. lickd.co
Human by The Killers, https://t.lickd.co/l/vmp55XGRpVz
