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All the scales
59 scales and modes, from the most consonant to the most outside. Each page gives the notes, the color and the chords to play it on.
Pentatonics · 5 notes
Egyptian pentatonic (suspended) suspended pentatonic, no third hirajoshi (Japanese) Japanese, contemplative koto in sen (Japanese) Japanese "in", austere b9 iwato (Japanese) Japanese, the most tense kumoi (Japanese) Japanese, minor with a singing thirteenth major pentatonic open major pentatonic man gong (minor blues pentatonic) Chinese pentatonic, melancholic b6 minor pentatonic universal minor pentatonic ritsu / yo (Japanese pentatonic) Japanese yo, bright with no half step
Hexatonics · 6 notes
augmented (symmetric) symmetric augmented major blues major blues, ♭3 blue note minor blues minor blues, ♭5 blue note Prometheus (mystic) Scriabin's mystic, soaring tritone scale symmetric on two tritones whole-tone whole-tone floating
Modes of the major scale · 7 modes
major (Ionian) reference major color Dorian bright minor, major thirteenth Phrygian dark minor, Spanish b9 Lydian ♯11 brilliance Mixolydian natural dominant Aeolian (natural minor) melancholic natural minor Locrian unstable half-diminished
Modes of the melodic minor · 7 modes
melodic minor bright minor-major Dorian ♭2 (Phrygian ♮6) Dorian with a soft b9 Lydian augmented (Lydian ♯5) suspended Lydian ♯5 Lydian dominant (Mixolydian ♯11, 4th mode of melodic minor) ♯11 dominant Mixolydian ♭6 (melodic major) major with a bittersweet ♭6 Locrian ♮2 (6th mode of melodic minor) half-diminished ♮9, more stable altered (super-Locrian, 7th mode of melodic minor) maximum altered tension
Modes of the harmonic minor · 7 modes
harmonic minor classical minor, augmented second Locrian ♮6 half-diminished with major thirteenth Ionian ♯5 (augmented major) major with augmented fifth Dorian ♯4 (Romanian) Romanian Dorian ♯4 Phrygian dominant (Spanish) Spanish flamenco ♭9 Lydian ♯2 crystalline Lydian ♯2 super-Locrian ♭♭7 (ultralocrian) diminished Locrian, bb7
Modes of the harmonic major · 7 modes
harmonic major (Ionian ♭6) major with a bittersweet ♭6 Dorian ♭5 Dorian with diminished fifth Phrygian ♭4 Phrygian with lowered eleventh Lydian ♭3 (Lydian diminished) diminished minor Lydian Mixolydian ♭2 dominant with a colorful b9 Lydian augmented ♯2 exotic Lydian augmented ♯2 Locrian ♭♭7 diminished Locrian bb7
Modes of the double harmonic scale · 7 modes
double harmonic major (Byzantine) Byzantine, two augmented seconds Lydian ♯2 ♯6 exotic Lydian ♯2 ♯6 ultraphrygian diminished Phrygian bb7 Hungarian minor Hungarian minor, double augmented second Oriental Oriental, double augmented second Ionian ♯2 ♯5 exotic major ♯2 ♯5 Locrian ♭♭3 ♭♭7 doubly diminished Locrian
Other 7-note scales · symmetric & exotic
enigmatic Verdi's enigmatic, elusive Hungarian major gypsy dominant, #9 + #11 Neapolitan major minor below, major above Neapolitan minor exotic minor, b9 + major seventh
Octatonics · 8 notes
bebop dominant bebop dominant, passing 7 bebop major bebop major, passing ♯5 bebop minor (Dorian bebop) bebop minor (Dorian + 3) half-whole diminished diminished dominant, ♭9/♯9/♯11 tensions whole-half diminished whole/half diminished