Scales Cheat Sheet
Scales Cheat Sheet is a quick guide to musical scales for guitar players. It contains vast amount of information on various popular musical scales, a short tutorial, and a tools page.
Scales Cheat Sheet provies large amount of information on all Major, Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor and Melodic Minor scales. It shows how each scale is built, what notes it is based on, and many more things. Almost all information is colour coded, hence easier to digest and remember for longer.
Scale pages have Intervals section. It shows, what intervals there are there between any 2 notes of a scale and lends itself well for ear training as well as for quick interval lookups.
Scales Cheat Sheet provides a set of harmonized chords for each scale as well as popular chord progressions, the chords can be used for on each scale pages. Each chord has it own section, in which its notes, intervals, a chords diagram and a fingering are described.
Musical Scales
Look up your scale below, then choose one of its 7 modes you wish to learn about.
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MajorNatural MinorHarmonic MinorMelodic Minor
Scale Cheat Sheet releases
Scales Cheat Sheet 0.8.5 released
I'm pleased to announce immediate availability of Scales Cheat Sheet 0.8.5.
The most important change in this version is addition of 6 extra modes for all hepatonic and pentatonic scales. This addtion has resulted in number of available scales jumping from 120 to 840. So, everyone should be able to find a scale, that sounds just right now. The addition also contributed to updates of almost all sections of scale pages.
For example, MIDI numbers section is color coded according to a scale and a mode now. Also, scale player plays user chosen scale in chosen mode as of this version.
Addition of extra modes triggered removal of Chords in Common section from all scale pages. This functionality is available from Tools page now.
More complete list of changes introduced in this as well as in previous versions of Scales Cheat Sheet is available on the "about" page.
Scales Cheat Sheet 0.8.0 released
I'm pleased to announce Scales Cheat Sheet 0.8.0.
The most important changes and additions in this versions include:
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ability of playing with and listening to all major and minor sales, including pentatonics
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chromatic scale notes for all major and minor scales,
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MIDI numbers table for all major and minor keys,
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fret frequencies for all major and minor keys.
List of changes for this and previous versions of Scales Cheat Sheet is available on the "about" page.
Scales Cheat Sheet 0.7.0 released
I'm pleased to announce version 0.7.0 of Scales Cheat Sheet.
The most important changes and additions in this versions include:
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brand-new diagrams for 3-note chords with root note on G string for all Major and Minor (Natural, Harmonic and Melodic) scales,
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all chord shapes for newly added chords with root note on G string,
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chord diagrams and fingerings for Major and Minor 9th chords with root note on D, A and E string for all Major and Minor (Natural, Harmonic and Melodic) scales,
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chord shapes for Major and Minor 9th chords in Chord Shapes section.
For a full list of changes this version brings the user is encouraged to see the change log
Scales Cheat Sheet 0.6.5 released
I am glad to announce release of Scales Cheat Sheet 0.6.5
This update introduces Chords Shapes section on scale pages and Tab to Scales Search tool. The former has been designed to make finding chord names with their shapes quick and easy. The latter identifies scale(s) with a tabulature for a piece of music.
For a full list of changes this version brings the user is encouraged to see the change log
Scales Cheat Sheet 0.6.0 released
I am glad to announce release of Scales Cheat Sheet 0.6.0
New features in this version include: Minor and Major add9 chords together with diagrams for all 60 scales, extended and re-designed Intervals section, short chord names and chord counts added for each chord family heading in Scale Chords section, tabs interface for Chord Progressionions and Chords Based on Scale Degrees section, simplified and update Backcycling section, updated Tutorial, Help and Tool pages, each with a table of contents now, improved overall design of many sections and pages like section footers and scale selection menu, asynchronous Scale Chords section loading and Frets to Scales Search tool.
For a full list of changes this version brings the user is encouraged to see the change log
Scales Cheat Sheet 0.5.5 released
I am glad to announce release of Scales Cheat Sheet 0.5.5
The release is a minor update to the previous version.
New features in this version include:
Minor 6th chords and diagrams, chord count in the family for all chord families in all 60 scales and a widget for quick scales search for the front page, chords in common search tool in tool section.
For a full list of changes this version brings the user is encouraged to see the change log.