Free Guitar Scale Dictionary In PDF 2025

Guitar Scale Dictionary

Major Scale Modes

  • Ionian (Major)
  • Dorian
  • Phrygian
  • Lydian
  • Mixolydian
  • Aeolian (Minor, Natural Minor, Pure Minor)
  • Locrian

Melodic Minor Modes

  • Melodic Minor
  • Phrygian #6 (Dorian b2)
  • Lydian Augmented
  • Lydian Dominant (Mixolydian #4)
  • Fifth Mode (Mixolydian b6, Hindu)
  • Locrian #2 (Aeolian b5, Half Diminished)
  • Altered (Diminished Whole Tone, Super Locrian)

Symmetric Scales

  • Whole Tone
  • Diminished Whole Half (Whole Half)
  • Diminished Half Whole (Half Whole)

Pentatonic Scales

  • Major Pentatonic
  • Minor Pentatonic
  • Suspended Pentatonic
  • Dominant Pentatonic (Mixolydian Pentatonic)
  • Traditional Japanese “in sen”

Blues Scales

  • Blues

Bebop Scales

  • Bebop Major
  • Bebop Minor (Bebop Dorian)
  • Bebop Dominant
  • Bebop Melodic Minor

Harmonic Scales

  • Harmonic Major
  • Harmonic Minor (Mohammedan)
  • Double Harmonic Major ( Arabic, Byzantine)

Exotic Scales

  • Hungarian Gypsy (Hungarian Minor)
  • Hungarian Major
  • Phrygian Dominant (Spanish, Spanish Phrygian, Spanish Gypsy, Jewish)
  • Neapolitan Minor
  • Neapolitan Major
  • Enigmatic
  • Eight-tone Spanish
  • Balinese Pelog (Balinese, Pelog)
  • Oriental
  • Iwato
  • Yo
  • Prometheus
  • Symmetrical
  • Major Locrian (Arabian)

Miscellaneous

  • Chromatic
  • Augmented
  • Lydian Minor

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