App Detail » Scales Lexicon

Published by: Patrick Kelly

iPad App - Designed for iPad

Price: $2.99
Current Version: 6.0
Released: February 10, 2011

What's New

Bug fixes and other essential updates.

App Description

Over 100 scales notated and played for you, including note names and melodic intervals. Transposition for instruments in Ab, Eb, Bb, F, C, G, D, A, and E. Play along! Create a pdf of the notation and piano key markings for sharing or printing. Listen and watch the notes or piano keys highlight as it plays.

Transpose with a touch, to any root, in treble, alto, tenor or bass clef. See the scale notated correctly, with double sharps and flats as needed. For example, Gb minor has a B double flat, not an A.
Have the scale played in a wide variety of ways.
• Choose from 11 rhythmic patterns.
• Choose 1, 2 or 3 octaves.
• Loop continuously, or play just once through.
• Select the space between each loop.
• Choose if you want the scale played forward and backward (up and down), or just forward.
• Includes an optional 2 or 4 beat count-off.

Included scales:
• Common:
Major
Natural Minor
Harmonic Minor
Melodic Minor - Up & Down
Whole-Half Diminished
Half-Whole Diminished
Whole-tone
Chromatic

• Modes:
Ionian
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Locrian

• Jazz:
Major Pentatonic
Minor Pentatonic
Blues
Blues Modified
Blues Phrygian
Blues Diminished
Bebop
Bebop Major
Bebop Dominant
Bebop Minor
Bebop Minor 2
Harmonic Major
Phrygian Dominant
Lydian Dominant (Overtone)
Lydian Augmented
Augmented
Half Diminished 1
Half Diminished 2
Diminished Whole Tone
6th Mode of Harmonic Minor
Neapolitan Major
Neapolitan Minor
Harmonic Neapolitan Minor
Prometheus

• Hindustani Thaats:
Bilawal
Kalyan
Khamaj
Bhairav
Poorvi
Marwa
Kafi
Asavari
Bhairavi
Todi

• World:
Algerian
Arabian
Byzantine
Hawaiian
Hindu
Hungarian or Egyptian
Indian
Indian Minor
Jewish or Spanish
Oriental
Persian
Romanian Bocovia
Romanian Major
Romanian Minor

• China:
Bi Yu
Chaio
Kung
Youlan

• Japan:
Han-kumoi
Hira-joshi
Honchoshi Plagal Form
Iwato
Kokin-joshi, Miyakobushi
Nohkan
Ritsu
Sakura Pentatonic
Sansagari
Taishikicho, Ryo

• Composers:
Prokofiev
Scriabin
Shostakovich
Verdi Enigmatic
Verdi Enigmatic - Up & Down

• Messiaen Modes:
Mode 1 - Whole Tone
Mode 2 - Half-Whole Diminished
Mode 3
Mode 3 Inverse
Mode 4
Mode 4 Inverse
Mode 5
Mode 5 Inverse
Mode 6
Mode 6 Inverse
Mode 7
Mode 7 Inverse
Truncated Mode 2
Truncated Mode 3
Truncated Mode 3 Inverse
Truncated Mode 5
Truncated Mode 5 Inverse
Truncated Mode 6
Truncated Mode 6 Inverse