is a concept used to understand tonal relationships in music.

It involves imagining a musical

scale arranged in a circle, with the tonic (main key) at the top.

Imagine the Circle of Fifths as a musical playground! When we move up by a fifth, we reach the
Dominant, full of excitement and energy. Going down by a fifth brings us to the Subdominant, a
peaceful spot to take a break. This circle helps us understand how keys relate to each other,
making our musical journey fun and easy to follow!
if we keep count it will be like this:

The Axis pitch theory is making group of all Tonics, all dominants and all subdominants like this:
And now we can have fun and replace any dominant with other dominant of the group, for example:

If we have the chord progression:

C – Am – F – G – C

We can replace the G with anyone of the dominant group so we can have:

 C – Am – F – Em – C.
 C – Am – F – Bb – C.
 C – Am – F – E – C.
 C – Am – F – C#m – C.
 C – Am – F – Db – C.
 C – Am – F – Bbm – C.

And we can do the same by replacing the subdominant F to any one of the subdomiant group to have
this:

 C – Am – Dm – G – C.
 C – Am – Ab – G – C.
 C – Am – Fm – G – C.
 C – Am – D – G – C.
 C – Am – Bm – G – C.
 C – Am – B – G – C.
 C – Am – Abm – G – C.

And we also can replace the Tonic with any other tonic in the group of tonics:

 C – Am – F – G – C.
 C – Am – F – G – Am.
 C – Am – F – G – Eb.
 C – Am – F – G – Cm.
 C – Am – F – G – F#.
 C – Am – F – G – Ebm.
 C – Am – F – G – A.
 C – Am – F – G – F#m.