Online scale dictionary

Are you looking for a musical scale to improvise, compose, or better understand your instrument?

Our interactive scale dictionary lets you instantly explore all scales: major, minor, pentatonic, blues scales, oriental scales…

It also allows you to explore arpeggios and modes, with a display adapted for guitar, bass, violin, ukulele, and keyboard or piano.

This dictionary is designed to provide practical access for different instruments:

• 6-string guitar
• 7-string guitar
• 4-string bass
• 5-string bass
• Violin
• Ukulele
• Piano and keyboard

Simply select your instrument directly in the dictionary.

For guitars, bass guitars, violin and ukulele, you can customize the dictionary by specifying:

• The number of frets on your guitar, bass or ukulele
• Whether the instrument is right-handed or left-handed
• The tuning used (standard, open tuning, drop tuning, etc.)

Our tool has been designed for beginner and advanced musicians. In just a few clicks, you can:

• Choose your instrument and its tuning
• Choose the notation: Latin (Do, Re, Mi…) or English (C, D, E…)
• Set the root note (C, D♯, A…)
• Select a type of scale, arpeggio or mode

Your scale appears, along with the intervals that make it up. You can then:

• Add or remove intervals
• Visualize the notes of the scale on the instrument (piano keyboard, guitar, bass, ukulele or violin fretboard)
• Listen to the sound of each scale, arpeggio or mode by clicking on the highlighted notes one by one