Part II
Part II: The Major Scale, Natural Minor, and Modes
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Natural Minor
The natural minor (Aeolian) scale in five positions and three-notes-per-string patterns across the whole neck.
Major
The major scale in five positional patterns and three-notes-per-string forms, with full-neck fingerings.
Creating Modes
How the seven modes are created from a parent scale — and how to see and hear each as a scale in its own right.
Dorian
The Dorian mode — a minor scale with a bright raised sixth — in five positions and three-notes-per-string patterns.
Phrygian
The dark Phrygian mode with its flatted second, mapped across the fretboard in positions and full-neck patterns.
Lydian
The airy Lydian mode with its raised fourth, shown in five positions and three-notes-per-string forms.
Mixolydian
The dominant, bluesy Mixolydian mode with its flatted seventh, in positions and full-neck fingerings.
Locrian
The unstable Locrian mode with flatted second and fifth, mapped in positions and three-notes-per-string patterns.
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Scale finder
Pick a root note and a scale type — major, minor, the modes, pentatonic, blues — and see every note light up on the piano, spelled out for you.
Key signature finder
Pick a mode and a key and see its sharps or flats drawn on the staff, the scale spelled out, and its relative key named — then hear it played.
Scale ear trainer
Hear a scale played from a random root and name its type — major, minor, the modes, pentatonic, blues — with instant feedback and a running score.
Key signature trainer
A key signature appears on the staff, you pick the major key it belongs to, and you get instant feedback and a running score.
Scale reading trainer
A scale is written on the staff, you name its type, and you can hear it played back — with instant feedback and a running score.
Guitar tuner
Allow your microphone, play a string, and tune by ear to standard tuning (E A D G B E).