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