Scale & Chord Explorer
See and hear any scale or chord, in any key, on the fretboard.
Key
Labels
D Chinese Pentatonic
East Asian Scales
The Lydian-coloured pentatonic that guitar references call the "Chinese scale". (The five traditional Chinese modes follow below.)
These scales are adapted from traditional instrument tunings; Pelog and Slendro in particular are 12-tone approximations of unequal gamelan tunings.
Tap any dot to hear it.
Formula
Notes
Steps
H = half step, W = whole step