name the scale.
A scale runs up from its tonic. Name it: major, minor, one of the modes, a pentatonic or the blues.
tap a scale on the screen, or turn scale and press ok · e plays the tonic alone · number keys change the instrument
what you train.
A scale is the set of notes a melody is made of. Hearing it tells you which notes will fit a solo, what mood a song is in, and why a dorian groove does not sound like a plain minor one.
Level 1 asks major, minor and the two pentatonics, level 2 adds the harmonic minor and the blues, level 3 the dorian, phrygian, lydian and mixolydian modes, level 4 the melodic minor and the locrian, and level 5 all twelve, rising or falling. The right scale scores 10 points; from level 4, a scale with the same third scores 5 (a lydian for a major). Five levels of five questions and four lives.
The piano is a real one: the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm, a Yamaha C5, under CC BY 3.0.
The third: first listen for it: major, bright; minor, darker. That halves the choices.
Harmonic minor: minor with a raised 7th: the leap near the top sounds eastern.
Dorian: minor with a bright 6th, the sound of a funky groove.
Mixolydian: major with a flat 7th, rock and blues.
Lydian: major with a raised 4th, dreamy, film music.
Pentatonic: five notes, no half steps: nothing ever clashes.