Pick a root and a scale and every note of it lights up across the neck. That map is how good players see a scale: not as one shape but as notes spread over the whole fretboard, joined up by positions. Then pick a position to zoom in. Pentatonic scales split into the five boxes everyone learns, seven-note scales into seven three-notes-a-string patterns, and the rest into five-fret hand positions; position 1 always starts on the root on the lowest string, and each next one starts on the next note, so they climb the neck in order.
Label the notes the way you think: names spelled correctly for the key (F♯ in D major, G♭ in D♭), scale degrees, intervals from the root, which finger to use, or sargam. The strip above the neck shows the scale’s notes, degrees and intervals, the step formula (W W H W W W H for the major scale) and other scales that use exactly the same notes, such as A minor and C major.
Press Play to hear the position up, down, up and down, or in the patterns players practise for speed and fluency: groups of 3 and 4, 3rds, triads and 6ths. Each note lights up on the neck as it sounds, at any tempo, with a click if you want one. For seven-note scales the chords built on every note are shown too; tap one to hear it.
There are 72 scales: the major and minor scales and every mode, pentatonic and blues scales, harmonic and melodic minor and their modes, symmetric and bebop scales, Indian thaats and pentatonic ragas, and scales from around the world. Any tuning works, including drop and open tunings, 7- and 8-string guitar, bass and ukulele.