Chord Library › Scale Library

A Major Scale

Pick a key and a scale to see every note across the fretboard, hear it played, and switch between note names and scale degrees.

Key / Root note

Scale

Left-handed

Root note Scale tone Tap any dot to hear it 🔊

How to use the scale finder

Choose your key (the root note your scale is built on) and the scale type. The fretboard lights up every place that scale lives across all 15 frets, with the root note in orange. Use Note names while you're learning where notes are, then switch to Scale degrees to see the pattern (1, ♭3, 4, 5…) that stays the same in every key. Tap any dot to hear that note, or hit Play scale to hear it ascend.

Once you know a shape in one key, you can slide the exact same pattern up or down the neck to play it in any other key — that's the magic of the guitar.

Use the Position buttons to isolate one box of the scale at a time instead of lighting up the whole neck. For the pentatonic scales these are the 5 classic movable shapes most solos live in; for every other scale they break the fretboard into manageable positions you can learn one at a time, then connect up and down the neck.

Looking for chords that fit your scale? Browse the Chord Library, or analyze a chord you already know with the Chord Analyzer. Tune up first with the Guitar Tuner.

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