Scale Library

The brightest, most fundamental scale in Western music. Every other mode is a rotation of it.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

The darker cousin of the major scale — the sixth mode of the major (Aeolian).

1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7

Five notes, zero wrong choices. The vocabulary of country, southern rock, and gospel leads.

1 2 3 5 6

The most important scale a rock or blues guitarist can learn.

1 b3 4 5 b7

Minor pentatonic with the added b5 'blue note.' Fastest way to sound like a bluesman.

1 b3 4 b5 5 b7

Natural minor with a raised 7th. Yields the exotic gap between b6 and 7.

1 2 b3 4 5 b6 7

Jazz-friendly minor with raised 6th and 7th ascending — a modern-fusion staple.

1 2 b3 4 5 6 7

Minor with a raised 6th. The 'jam band' minor — smooth, hopeful, funky.

1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7

Major with a b7. The sound of blues-rock, country, and dominant-chord vamps.

1 2 3 4 5 6 b7

Major with a raised 4th — the 'floating,' cinematic modal color.

1 2 3 #4 5 6 7

The darkest church mode — half-diminished flavor built on the 7th degree of major.

1 b2 b3 4 b5 b6 b7

Minor with a b2 — the Spanish/flamenco mode and a metal signature.

1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7

5th mode of harmonic minor. The Middle-Eastern / metal exotic sound.

1 b2 3 4 5 b6 b7

Six evenly-spaced notes — dreamlike and directionless. A Debussy favorite.

1 2 3 #4 #5 b7

All twelve notes. Used as connective tissue between the notes of any other scale.

1 b2 2 b3 3 4 b5 5 b6 6 b7 7