Scales & Modes Explorer

Every scale and mode, on piano and guitar, with sound.

Scales & Modes Explorer is an interactive dictionary of 66 scales and modes. Pick a tonic and a scale and see it at once on a piano keyboard, on the fretboard of a guitar, bass, ukulele or mandolin, and on the staff. Hear it over a drone of the tonic, where the colour of a mode really comes out. Every feature is free.

SEE EVERY SCALE
• Formula in degrees (1 2 ♭3 4 5 6 ♭7) and in steps (W H W W W H W).
• Notes spelled correctly for every tonic: seven different letters, double sharps and flats where they belong (G♯ harmonic minor has F𝄪).
• The tonic in blue, the characteristic note in amber: the ♮6 of Dorian, the ♯4 of Lydian, the ♭2 of Phrygian.
• Character and typical uses of each scale, in a few words.

PIANO, FRETBOARD AND STAFF
• Two-octave keyboard with note names; tap any key to hear it.
• Fretboard for guitar (standard, drop D, DADGAD, open G and more), 4- and 5-string bass, ukulele and mandolin, left-handed too.
• Whole neck, box positions or three notes per string, with suggested fingers and a step through every position.
• Treble or bass clef, each note with its own accidental.

LISTEN THE RIGHT WAY
• Up, down or up and down, from 40 to 240 BPM.
• Alone, over a drone of the tonic or over its chord.
• Sampled grand piano, offline and sample-accurate.

THE MODES SIDE BY SIDE
• The seven modes of the major, melodic minor, harmonic minor and harmonic major scales.
• Parallel (same tonic: hear how one note changes the mood) or relative (same notes, another starting degree).
• Order them from brightest to darkest.

CHORDS OF THE SCALE
• Diatonic triads and seventh chords with roman numerals: Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7 G7…
• Tap a chord to hear it and see it on the instrument.

COMPARE AND FIND
• Compare two scales: notes in common and notes that differ, highlighted.
• Which scale has these notes? Tap the notes you hear and get every scale that contains them.

PRACTISE
• Which mode? Recognise the mode by ear over its drone.
• Complete the scale: choose the missing note, spelled correctly.

66 SCALES
Major and its modes, melodic and harmonic minor and their modes (lydian dominant, altered, Phrygian dominant…), harmonic major, pentatonics, blues, bebop, whole tone, diminished, augmented, chromatic and world scales such as Hungarian minor, double harmonic, Neapolitan, Hirajoshi, In and Pelog (12-note approximations).

PERFECT FOR
• Guitarists, bassists and pianists learning to improvise.
• Music theory students and teachers.
• Songwriters looking for a new colour.

Favourites, note names in letters, Do Re Mi or German H, dark and light theme, 71 languages. Share any diagram as an image.

NO ADS, OFFLINE AND PRIVATE
No ads, no in-app purchases, no account and no internet permission. Nothing leaves your device.

By FELICE MARRA MUSIC STUDIOS.