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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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[under construction]

—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 | Pentatonic Modes | Mel. Minor Modes | Har. Minor Modes | Pentatonics | Hexatonics | Heptatonics | Others | Microtonals

—Major Modes—

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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—

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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—

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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—

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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 Diminished (1-b2-b3-b4-b5-b6-bb7)

—More Pentatonic Scales (5)—

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Boogie Woogie (1-3-5-6-b7)

Insen/Bairagi (1-b2-4-5-b7)

In/Miyakobushi (1-b2-4-5-b6)

Shivranjani (1-2-b3-5-6)

—More Hexatonic Scales (6)—

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Blues Minor (1-b3-4-b5-5-b7)

Minor Hexatonic (1-2-b3-4-5-b7)

Whole-Tone (1-2-3-#4-b6-b7)

—More Heptatonic Scales (7)—

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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 Major (1-#2-3-#4-5-6-b7)

Hungarian Minor (1-2-b3-#4-5-b6-7)

Marwa Thaat (1-b2-3-#4-5-6-7)

Neapolitan Major (1-b2-b3-4-5-6-7)

Neapolitan Minor (1-b2-b3-4-5-b6-7)

Poorvi Thaat (1-b2-3-#4-5-b6-7)

Todi Thaat (1-b2-b3-#4-5-b6-7)

—Others / Special Cases—

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Bebop Dominant (1-2-3-4-5-6-b7-7)

Diminished (WH) (1-2-b3-4-#4-b6-6-7)

Diminished (HW) (1-b2-b3-3-#4-5-6-b7)

Chromatic (1-b2-2-b3-3-4-#4-5-b6-6-b7-7)

—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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