Circle of Fifths
Legend
Major Keys
Minor Keys
Selected Major
Selected Minor
Select a Key
Click on any key in the circle to see its relationships, chord progressions, and musical properties.
How to Use the Circle
- • Moving clockwise shows keys with sharps added
- • Moving counterclockwise shows keys with flats added
- • Adjacent keys are a perfect fifth apart
- • Relative major/minor keys are directly across from each other
- • Use this to find compatible keys for modulation
- • The circle helps understand chord progressions and key relationships
- • Scale degrees show the function of each note in the key
- • Enharmonic equivalents are the same pitch with different names
- • Dominant keys are perfect fifths up, subdominant are perfect fifths down