All scales, from every note
Every scale has its own page with notes, formula, step pattern, keyboard and playback. Pick the type of scale and the starting note.
Major
The reference scale of tonal music: every other scale is measured against it.
Major
Minor
Three variants with a minor third: natural, harmonic (raised seventh) and melodic (raised sixth and seventh).
Natural minor
Harmonic minor
Melodic minor
Modes
The seven scales you get by starting from each degree of the major scale.
Ionian
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Locrian
Pentatonic
Five notes with no half steps: easy to use and found in every genre.
Major pentatonic
Minor pentatonic
Blues
The pentatonic scales with one extra passing note, the blue note.
Major blues
Minor blues
Bebop
Eight-note scales: the added note makes chord tones land on the strong beats.
Bebop major
Bebop dominant
Bebop minor
Symmetric
Built by repeating the same pattern of intervals over and over.
Whole tone
Diminished (whole-half)
Diminished (half-whole)
Chromatic
Other scales
Scales from modern jazz and from traditions other than the European one.
Harmonic major
Lydian dominant
Altered (super Locrian)
Phrygian dominant
Double harmonic
Hungarian minor
Neapolitan minor
Neapolitan major
Egyptian
Hirajoshi
In sen
Iwato
From theory to practice
With GEN you generate ever-new exercises on the scales you are studying.