Mixing in 7B (F Major)

7B is F Major on the Camelot wheel — a soft, generous major. The shape of a transition out of 7B depends entirely on which direction you move.

Stepping clockwise from 7B (F Major) to 8B (C 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 7B to 6B (B♭ 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 7A (D 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 7B the dominant genres are Drum & Bass, Techno (Peak Time / Driving), and Psy-Trance (Drum & Bass alone accounts for around 9% of the catalogue’s tracks in this key). That genre weight matters: a clockwise lift from 7B most often lands you in adjacent drum & bass territory, which is why the safe move tends to feel inevitable rather than surprising.

Tracks like The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift and Locked out of Heaven by Bruno Mars sit in 7B — 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 8B or 7A and the relationship becomes audible.