Explore scales by root, family and mode. See the notes as degrees, hear them, view them on a circle, piano or guitar, and build chords from the selected scale.
Choose the instrument view, then choose root, family and scale.
Example: Major = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 · Natural Minor = 1 2 ♭3 4 5 ♭6 ♭7
Select a chord to hear a slower arpeggio and highlight its notes.
Chord Progressions
Choose a progression pattern. It adapts to the selected scale.
1. Choose a root, family and scale.
2. Choose Circle, Piano, Guitar or Notation.
3. Click notes to hear them.
4. Click a chord to hear its arpeggio.
5. Use the numerical formula to compare scales.
Major/minor modes, harmonic and melodic minor, pentatonics, blues, altered, whole tone, diminished, chromatic, Hungarian, Neapolitan, Harmonic Major, Japanese, Asian, Middle Eastern, jazz, Messiaen and other exotic scales.
Explore intervallic and melodic procedures described in Nicolas Slonimsky's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. Choose a procedure, generate an original note pattern from the current scale, and view or hear it.
Scale Visualizer V22 — © 2026 André de Brito. All rights reserved.
Latest Updates — V22
V22 — Final suite pass: synchronized version metadata, retained the Root / Scale / Chord visual hierarchy, added direct tool navigation, and added a Focus view for concentrating on the musical display. The physical HTML filename remains scale_visualizer_v1.html.