This wheel is used to visualize the relationship between keys for a process known as Harmonic Mixing. Mixing in key, or harmonic mixing, is crucial to mixing a good DJ set made easy by The Camelot System. This is an example of trusting your ears, and using the circle as a guide rather than a rulebook. The result is an energy-boosting, more euphoric mix that can be used to create build up to a peak in your set. In the second mix, the incoming track is pitched up to 12m, so skips a segment of the circle.
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When I used Traktor for harmonic mixing in 2006 I made my desktop wallpaper with a full screen size Camelot wheel, I constantly minimized Traktor to see the wheel to see where I needed to go next. The Camelot Wheel visualizes the relationship between keys. In the first mix, they are both the same key. If you're looking to make this change, look for songs that have single, monotonous chord stabs or pads, single, long lasting strings and get the mix in and out quick before those change. But, when I do single genre House sets I specifically use Harmonic mixing moving around the wheel and occasionally jumping outside the box.
But, you can find songs that are much different numerically camelot-wise that can be mixed with others. You may be able to find a spot where this isn't the case, but by the time you've mixed in, you could be clashing.īasically, your best odds of not having clashing music are to use the +/- 1 or same number different letter approach. The higher the numerical difference you go on the camelot wheel, the more different notes exist between the two keys and therefore the music sounds clashing or dissonant. The odds of you hitting the different note at the same time (causing dissonance) is slim. Going +/- 1 in the camelot wheel (from 6a to 7a or 5a) there is only one note difference from one musical key to the other. DJ Cummerbund recalled a mashup in which he made every major third into a minor.
When they recommend going from 6a to 6b, it's because the notes in those musical keys are the same. Camelot Wheel, ' in which the names of the twelve tones ' key signatures. It really depends on the notes being played at any given moment, especially when you go from one camelot wheel "key" to another.
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