Scale Explorer

Most scale pages start from a name. This one starts from the notes: switch the twelve degrees on and off, and the fretboard — plus the naming line under it — keeps up. If what you build has a name, you get told which one, and which parent scale it is a mode of.

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How to use it

  1. Pick a key and an instrument. The board redraws for any of the site's fretted tunings.
  2. Toggle degrees. Click the numbered buttons — or any fret — to add or remove that degree everywhere it appears.
  3. Read the naming line. It reports every named scale matching what you built, plus which parent scale it is a mode of.
  4. Name it and share it. Saved scales stay in this browser; the share link carries the whole scale, so it works anywhere.

Want a named scale on a full page instead, with patterns and positions? Start at guitar scales, or read how the modes relate.

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