Hexatonic

Six notes, free for everyone

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About

Six notes, played properly.

Hexatonic is a free practice app for six-note scales, made by Jason Zac at Nathaniel School of Music.

The theory is computed, not typed in

Everything the app says about a scale — its spelling in any key, the chords inside it, the intervals in a drill, the bar on which a pattern lands — comes from one engine, and that engine is checked by automated tests. Nothing is typed in by hand and hoped for.

Two scale names

The gospel scale (1 2 ♭3 3 5 6) is here as the major blues. It is not the major scale without its 4th.

The Sunday Scale is Peter Martin’s name, from Open Studio, for one rotation only: Folk major (no 7), 1 2 3 4 5 6. The other rotations carry plain names first and their modal names second, which list the two modes that share all six notes.

Credits

Piano: the Salamander Grand. Engraving: VexFlow. Where a source for a name or a claim could not be confirmed, the app leaves it out.

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