Guitar Scale Chart

Visualize any scale on a guitar fretboard. Choose from 277 scales and modes — from Major and Pentatonic to exotic Balinese, Byzantine, and Slonimsky scales.

Scale degrees

80BPM

1

2

3

4

5

6

e

B

G

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

A

C

D

E

I position • frets 1–6

♩ = 80 bpm

e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------2-4-5-|
D|----2-3-5-------|
A|3-5-------------|
E|----------------|

Root

Scale note

Playing

Scale Library

275 scales total

Essential

Church Modes

How to use the Scale Chart

Select a root note (tonic) and a scale type from the dropdowns above. The fretboard will highlight every position where a scale note appears. Filled circles are scale notes; the colored root note marks the tonic.

Scale categories

Essential — Major, Minor, Pentatonic, Blues, Whole Tone, Chromatic.
Church Modes — Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian.
Melodic Minor Modes — Jazz Minor, Lydian Augmented, Altered Scale (Superlocrian), and more.
Harmonic Minor Modes — Phrygian Dominant, Lydian #2, Aeolian Harmonic, and more.
Pentatonic Modes — The five rotations of the pentatonic scale.
Arpeggios — Major, Minor, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th chord tones.
World — Arabic, Balinese, Byzantine, Egyptian, Gypsy, Japanese, Persian, and more.
Advanced — Slonimsky, Melakarta, and other theoretical scales.

Turn this scale into a progression

Pick chords built from the scale above and arrange them in the Chord Player — add rhythm, transpose, and export to WAV.

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