D Aeolian Scale on Loog

Play the D Aeolian scale on Loog with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Aeolian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the modes family.

2 of Loog's 3 open strings belong to D Aeolian: G (the 4th), E (the 2nd). The B string falls outside it, and D is not available open. Open, the strings cover G3 to E4.

Same as Natural Minor.

The standard natural minor scale — melancholic, introspective, and deeply emotive. The most common minor sound in Western music.

Heard in: Pop, rock, classical, metal — the default minor sound of Western music.

Loog is tuned G–B–E, with 12 frets to work with. Loog strings are guitar strings 3-2-1 (G-B-E) — every shape here is the top of the matching guitar shape, so it all transfers when you move up to six strings.

Each position shows the scale notes and their intervals from the root so you can connect the shape to its sound, hear it with audio playback, and practice it in any register. Movable patterns let you transpose the same fingering to other keys once it is learned.

Once a position is under your fingers, link the D Aeolian scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of D to start improvising and writing with it. Working a scale alongside its chords is the fastest way to make it stick and to hear how it colors a progression.