Mountain Dulcimer Scales

Browse the Mountain Dulcimer scales and modes its frets can actually play. The fretboard is diatonic — D#, F and A# sound nowhere on it — so a scale is listed only when every one of its notes has a fret on some string. Choose a root note and a scale type and see the pattern laid out across the fretboard with notes and intervals.

Each scale has audio playback so you can hear it as well as see it. Because the frets are diatonic, a pattern does not slide to another key: each key sits on its own frets, which is why the roots and scale types on offer differ from a guitar's. Connect the scales to chords and progressions to hear why they sound the way they do.