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This is a tool to visualize music scales. Select a tonic note, a scale and a mode in Scale selector. The page shows the degrees of the scale and displays these notes on the neck of a guitar or on a piano in the Notes on instrument section.

The Chord progressions section contains a list of chord progressions I took from David Benett's videos and other online resources.

The chord progressions update according to the selected scale.

Scale selector

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Notes on instrument

Notation Instrument

Chord Progressions

Axis progression

Examples: Let it be, Take on me, Someone like you, Don't step believin', Can you feel the love tonight, Let it go
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Other axis progression

Examples: Numb - Linkin Park, Kids - MGMT, Africa - Toto, Rivers flow in you (piano thingy), Complicated - Avril Lavigne, Grenade, San Francisco, Save tonight
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Third axis progression

Examples: What's my age again?, Umbrella - Rihanna, Dragosta Din Tei, Boulevard of broken dreams (chorus), Alejandro - Lady Gaga
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Andalusian cadence

Examples: Hit the road Jack, Good vibrations - The Beach boys, Happy together, Vanina
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Aeolian vamp

Examples: Rolling in the deep, All along the watchtower, Stairway to heaven, My hear will go on, Somebody that I used to know
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Doo-Woop change

Examples: I will always love you, Crocodile rock, Let's twist again, Baby - Justin Bieber
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Major scale vamp

Examples: Your body is a wonderland, All the small things - Blink 182
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Mixolydyan vamp

Examples: Hey Jude (Lalalalaa), Sympathy for the devil, Sweet child o' mine, Royals - Lorde, Sweet home Alabama
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pachelbel's cannon

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Plagal cascade

Examples: Wonderwall, Boulevard of broken dreams (couplet), Mad world, Pumped up kids, Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
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"Can't stop" progression

Examples: Can't stop, Cant't hold us - Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis
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"Closing time" progression

Examples: Closing time - Semisonic, SOS - ABBA, Believe - Cher, All star (Shrek)
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"More than a feeling" progression

Examples: More than a feeling, Mr Brightside - The Killers
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Classic blues slow change

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Classic blues quick change

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Classic rock

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