Scale guide app

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hey everyone, just created an app to visualize notes and degrees in a scale. Tell me if you like it! Also please let me know if there are any bugs and requests.

I made this for myself, I needed an app that could highlight any degree on occasion and I could change it easily, so this came out. You can change the color and the size of any note with the menu on the left.

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farking awesome!

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As an absolute nooby to Bass, The is fantastic.

Nice job too. :slight_smile:

R.

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I am not sure how I will use it, but it is glorious.

Can you expand it for guitar as well?

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Awesome!

Three small points:

  • perhaps add “/ionian” to the major label and “/aeolian” to the minor label!?
  • it would be great to also show the enharmonic variants. D#, G#, A# are rather uncommon, while Eb, Ab, Bb are much more common (and thus more applicable)
  • it would be great to have a way to switch from showing actual note names (like now) to showing scale degrees, i.e., R (root) and then 2, b3, 4 etc. depending on the scale

Cool effort!!

EDIT: sorry, just found the switch to the degrees. However, for minor (aeolian) it should be b3, b6 and b7 and so on.

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thanks, nice ideas! I’ll look into them if I can

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Depending on how exactly you define scale degrees, these are a bit more tricky than what you show so far. As mentioned, it’s not just a numbering from 1-7 for the major scale modes, or 1-5 for the pentatonic modes, or 1-6 for blues - the scale degrees indicate the intervallic relationship and thus you need to, e.g., indicate minor thirds, or - in the case of pentatonics and blues - skip those that are not present. For instance, what you show as “3” (“III”) is actually the 4th degree (for blues and pentatonics), and so forth…

Well, anyway, that is how I would do it. But, I understand if you just wanted to indicate the seven subsequent notes of the scale.

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i have a feeling this is iphone only as it is unresponsive on my android. super cool of you to do this though :+1:

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+1 for this.

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I don’t have an iphone :slight_smile: it must be a bug, I haven’t tried it on a phone. let me check and fix it

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This is cool. Kudos, it looks like a fun project.

You might derive some further inspiration from a similar project created by another BassBuzzer :

In particular, check out the notation with scales vs degrees vs. intervals

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Yeah, I like his interval view as it makes the requisite scale shapes really jump out. I.e. for Ionian, just memorizing three shapes gives you all the ways most people move around any major scale in most basslines, and they are all easy to visualize with the interval view.

i.e. the major scale box shape Josh taught in the course:

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The first one most guitar players learn:

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and the major scale pattern up a single string:

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Add in the same corresponding shapes for natural Minor and that’s going to cover a wide swath of usage. Very little time needed to memorize.

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Ah, there it was… I couldn’t find it yesterday (had the same idea of mentioning it) and thought perhaps that Gonçalo @gcancella had taken it down.

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Last I checked he was still over on the discord - would be great if he were still around here more.

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