Mixing in 10B (D Major)

10B is D Major on the Camelot wheel — a clean, melodic major suited to vocal-led house. The shape of a transition out of 10B depends entirely on which direction you move.

Stepping clockwise from 10B (D Major) to 11B (A Major) creates a subtle energy lift — the harmony brightens by a perfect fifth, which Mixgraph’s scoring engine treats as forward momentum. Pair it with a small BPM increase and the mix reads as a deliberate build, not a drift.

Counter-clockwise from 10B to 9B (G Major) releases tension — the harmony darkens by a fifth and the engine reads it as an energy ease. It’s the move for breakdowns, warm-downs, and the long taper out of a peak.

The same-number flip to 10A (B Minor) keeps the root pitch but swaps major for minor — a mood change rather than an energy change. Use it when you want to keep the room grounded but shift the emotional colour.

In 10B the dominant genres are Progressive House, Melodic House & Techno, and Techno (Peak Time / Driving) (Progressive House alone accounts for around 8% of the catalogue’s tracks in this key). That genre weight matters: a clockwise lift from 10B most often lands you in adjacent progressive house territory, which is why the safe move tends to feel inevitable rather than surprising.

Tracks like Risk It All by Bruno Mars and Human Nature by Michael Jackson sit in 10B — useful reference points if you want to hear the harmonic colour of the key before planning a transition. Try mixing one of them into something in 11B or 10A and the relationship becomes audible.