Scales, modes and chords — each one with every position playable on an interactive fretboard.
The darkest of the everyday minor modes.
The minor mode with a secret brightness.
Major, but with a bluesy flat seventh.
The pure minor sound — Aeolian.
Major, lifted — the dreamy sharp fourth.
Five notes. Every solo starts here.
The warm, floating major-seventh sound.
The smooth, mellow minor-seventh.
The dominant chord that pulls home.
The classic ii chord.
The Hendrix chord.
Warm major seven, built on F.
The scale every other scale is measured against.
The go-to minor mode for a rock or funk groove.
The dominant sound, rooted on D.
The darkest, most unstable mode of all.
Minor with a raised 7th — and an exotic edge.
A minor scale with a major-scale top.
Five notes that always sound sweet.
The first scale every rock guitarist learns.
Minor pentatonic plus one dirty note.
The first chord — the pure major triad.
The first minor chord — sad in three notes.
The half-diminished chord that sets up a minor key.
Four notes, all tension, endlessly movable.
The 3rd swapped for a 4th — suspended and waiting.
The 3rd swapped for a 2nd — open and ringing.
A dominant 7 with a funky 9th on top.
A minor 7 with a lush 9th on top.
A plain major chord with a sparkle on top.
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