Here you can select notes on your piano keyboard, and it'll show you the corresponding scales. So if you have a melody or a chord progression, you can use this to find out which scales include those notes.
How to use the scales and the Modes in a music production context.
Bitwig Studio 6’s new scale highlighting feature makes it easy to visualize, create, and modulate melodies and harmonies in different scales and modes, helping both beginners and advanced users make more intentional music. The feature supports global and local scale selection, real-time automation, and integration with tools like arpeggiators and note effects, allowing users to experiment with brightness, darkness, and complexity. While primarily a highlighter rather than a full automatic transposer, it’s a valuable addition for making music theory more accessible and practical in your workflow.
In this video, I explore harmony theory beyond the typical diatonic framework, encouraging viewers to use the circle of fifths for a broader understanding of chord progressions. I demonstrate how to create more interesting harmonies by borrowing chords from outside the standard scale and discuss using a visual tool I've developed to facilitate this process. This approach allows for more creative freedom in music composition by enabling experimentation with different scales and chords while maintaining a tonal center.
Welcome to Interactive Piano Chords! This web app allows you to explore various piano chords, visualize them on a virtual keyboard, and even hear how they sound. Click on a chord from the list to highlight its notes on the keyboard and play its sound. You can also see how many notes each chord shares with the currently highlighted chord. Enjoy your musical journey!
In today's video, I want to discuss melodies, chords, and scale highlighting features. Somebody commented on my previous video about using a note grid that emits random melodies and modifying it with a key filter to accommodate those who are less familiar with music theory. However, I believe this approach is not feasible because the scale highlighting feature in Ableton Live, for example, can be misleading. When you select the scale feature in Ableton Live, it highlights certain notes in green. For C major, all the white keys are highlighted. However, it also selects other scales and modes such as D Dorian, E Phrygian, and so on.
In this video, I'm introducing Scale Maker, a script designed to help improve your experience in the piano roll by allowing you to fit notes to a chosen scale and even prevent wrong notes from being painted. I also discuss the integration with Melody Maker, enhancements made to the scripts, and how to install them via GitHub, despite some users experiencing issues with Windows Defender. Let me know your thoughts in the comments, and feel free to download and try it out for free.