Beyond the major scale lab

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Pick a family, a scale, and a root. Play scale sounds it one note per beat. The written families are on Beyond the major scale.

Build & hear a scale

Pick a family, a scale within it, and a root — the keyboard lights up its notes and the details appear below. Press Play scale to hear it (one note per beat at the metronome's tempo — set the BPM in the bar pinned at the bottom). Comparing scales from the same root is the fastest way to feel the difference.