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Compiling the real-world sounds of different musical scales: ranging from the famous to the abstruse, and spanning diverse global traditions. Expand your aural horizons with fresh sequences!

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—Project Contents—

• Scales: What even is a ‘scale’? •
• Tags: Multimodal classifications •
• Quotes: Scalar tales & musings •
• Contact: Submit your matches •
• About: Project ethos & goals •

¡Random Scale!

• Scales by Category •

Major Modes (7) | Pentatonic Modes (5) | Mel. Minor Modes (7) | Har. Minor Modes (7) | Others (12) | Strange Globals | Microtonals

—Major Modes—

Major (1-2-3-4-5-6-7)
Dorian (1-2-b3-4-5-6-b7)
Phrygian (1-b2-b3-4-5-b6-b7)
Lydian (1-2-3-#4-5-6-7)
Mixolydian (1-2-3-4-5-6-b7)
Aeolian (1-2-b3-4-5-b6-b7)
Locrian (1-b2-b3-4-b5-b6-b7)

—Pentatonic Modes—

Major Pentatonic (1-2-3-5-6)
Suspended Pentatonic (1-2-4-5-b7)
Phrygian Pentatonic (1-b3-4-b6-b7)
Scottish Pentatonic (1-2-4-5-6)
Minor Pentatonic (1-b3-4-5-b7)

—Melodic Minor Modes—

Melodic Minor (1-2-b3-4-5-6-7)
Dorian b2 (1-b2-b3-4-5-6-b7)
Lydian Augmented (1-2-3-#4-#5-6-7)
Lydian Dominant (1-2-3-#4-5-6-b7)
Mixolydian b6 (1-2-3-4-5-b6-b7)
Aeolian b5 (1-2-b3-4-b5-b6-b7)
Superlocrian (1-b2-b3-b4-b5-b6-b7)

—Harmonic Minor Modes—

Harmonic Minor (1-2-b3-4-5-b6-7)
Locrian ♮6 (1-b2-b3-4-b5-6-b7)
Ionian Augmented (1-2-3-4-#5-6-7)
Dorian #4 (1-2-b3-#4-5-6-b7)
Phrygian Dominant (1-b2-3-4-5-b6-b7)
Lydian #2 (1-#2-3-#4-5-6-7)
Superlocrian Dim. (1-b2-b3-b4-b5-b6-bb7)

—Other Scales—

Boogie Woogie (1-3-5-6-b7)
Insen/Bairagi (1-b2-4-5-b7)
In/Miyakobushi (1-b2-4-5-b6)

Blues Minor (1-b3-4-b5-5-b7)
Minor Hexatonic (1-2-b3-4-5-b7)
Whole-Tone (1-2-3-#4-b6-b7)

Double Harmonic (1-b2-3-4-5-b6-7)
Enigmatic (1-b2-3-#4-#5-#6-7)
Harmonic Major (1-2-3-4-5-b6-7)
Hungarian Minor (1-2-b3-#4-5-b6-7)
Neapolitan Major (1-b2-b3-4-5-6-7)
Neapolitan Minor (1-b2-b3-4-5-b6-7)

—Fascinating Global Scales—

Some of the most distinctive scale forms I’ve encountered from around the world…

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[coming soon]

—Microtonal Scales—

[coming soon]

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[n]-tet temperaments: different equilateral divisions of the octave

Alpha/Gamma Scales: Wendy Carlos’ non-octave-repeating scales

Blackjack: named after the card game for its 21 steps (each ~117 cents)

Bohlen-Pierce: splits a 17 semitones into 13 steps of ~146 cents each

Golden Ratio Scale: jumps of ~833 cents from Fibonacci-like sequences

Miracle Scales: 10-tones made of 9 smaller ‘secors’ and 1 larger interval

Pelog/Slendro: the core scales of Javanese gamelan (like 5-tet/9-tet)

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