Scale chart PDFs or PDF book?

Octavio · September 2023

Major/Minor scales, the modes, harmonic minor, melodic minor etc.

I have a good book but it's not the most portable. I'd like to use a tablet as I practice scales frequently, but the PDFs I've found online are poor (and I'd rather not get bogged down in an app, internet connection etc).

Can anyone share or point me in a good direction?

Cheers

viz · September 2023

This is maybe not what you're looking for but it's all 462 7-note scales within an octave, arranged within their families. The top left one is the diatonic family that we know and love. The ones near the bottom aren't useful - they're not even really scales as they have like an augmented fourth as one of the intervals. But the top few rows are good. Many of them have alternative names.

Each has a unique code, relating to the semitones and tones (eg 2212221 is a major scale)

Edit - except they've come out unreadable, I'll see if I can fix it.

Edit: I can't get them to be readable, sorry!

mrkb · September 2023

I use Neck Diagrams to create my own. It’s great software for scales and chord charts.

https://www.neckdiagrams.com/

Octavio · September 2023

viz said:

This is maybe not what you're looking for but it's all 462 7-note scales within an octave, arranged within their families. The top left one is the diatonic family that we know and love. The ones near the bottom aren't useful - they're not even really scales as they have like an augmented fourth as one of the intervals. But the top few rows are good. Many of them have alternative names.

Each has a unique code, relating to the semitones and tones (eg 2212221 is a major scale)

Edit - except they've come out unreadable, I'll see if I can fix it.

Edit: I can't get them to be readable, sorry!

No worries. Thanks for the attempt.
PDF chord book welcome too. I've always used those skinny 'books that fit in your guitar bag', which in hindsight is pretty impractical.

Brad · September 2023

mrkb said:

I use Neck Diagrams to create my own. It’s great software for scales and chord charts.

https://www.neckdiagrams.com/

I’d second using this. Doing it yourself will help you learn this stuff in a quicker and deeper way (I did it back in the day with pen and paper

). Depends how averse you are to doing the hard yards mind…

Octavio · September 2023

Brad said:

mrkb said:

I use Neck Diagrams to create my own. It’s great software for scales and chord charts.

https://www.neckdiagrams.com/

I’d second using this. Doing it yourself will help you learn this stuff in a quicker and deeper way (I did it back in the day with pen and paper ). Depends how averse you are to doing the hard yards mind…

I'd say quite averse. I know it'll just be another barrier to actually playing and time is limited with young family. I managed to get a PDF version of The Ultimate Scale book by Troy Stetina. I have the hardcopy so know what to expect. Thanks for the input though, got there in the end.

ESBlonde · September 2023

I’m led to believe the Beato book is pdf and has lots of scales, chords and modes in it. It’s said not to have lots of explanation but lots of reviews available. It’s often on sale too so might fit the OPs needs.

Benm39 · September 2023

Alex Rockwell books might be worth a look. Lots of very in depth scale manuals there

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