🎓 Guitar Teacher

See, hear and learn scales on the fretboard.

Diatonic & Major/Minor Modes

Major Scale (Ionian) Natural Minor Scale (Aeolian) Dorian Mode Phrygian Mode Lydian Mode Mixolydian Mode Locrian Mode

Minor Scale Variations

Harmonic Minor Melodic Minor (Jazz Minor / Ascending) Phrygian Dominant (Spanish Minor / 5th mode Harmonic Minor) Dorian ♭2 (2nd mode Melodic Minor) Lydian Augmented (3rd mode Melodic Minor) Lydian Dominant (4th mode Melodic Minor) Mixolydian ♭6 (5th mode Melodic Minor) Locrian ♮2 / Half-Diminished (6th mode Melodic Minor) Super Locrian / Altered Scale (7th mode Melodic Minor) Harmonic Major

Pentatonic & Blues Scales

Major Pentatonic Minor Pentatonic Blues Scale (Minor Blues) Major Blues Scale Hybrid / Dominant Pentatonic Japanese Pentatonic (In Sen) Japanese Pentatonic (Hirajoshi) Japanese Pentatonic (Kumoi) Egyptian / Suspended Pentatonic Man Gong Pentatonic

Symmetric Scales

Chromatic Scale Whole Tone Scale Diminished Scale (Half-Whole) Diminished Scale (Whole-Half) Augmented Scale Tritone Scale

Exotic & World Scales

Hungarian Minor (Gypsy Minor) Hungarian Major Byzantine Scale (Double Harmonic Major) Persian Scale Neapolitan Major Neapolitan Minor Arabic Scale Balinese Scale (Pelog) Javanese Scale (Slendro) Enigmatic Scale Prometheus Scale Romanian Minor (Ukrainian Dorian) Spanish 8-Note Scale Flamenco Scale

Key

Scale Tuning Frets

Labels

C Arabic Scale

Exotic & World Scales

Also called Major Locrian: starts major and ends Locrian with a flat 5th. (Some sources use "Arabic" for the double harmonic scale.)

Tap any dot to hear it.

Formula

Notes

Steps

H = half step, W = whole step