Root Shuffling
The root jumps to a new pitch periodically during gameplay — the same noteset is reseated on a fresh root, building the ability to summon the noteset by its type from any root. This makes playing in any key trivial.
Major scale on mandolin, by ear
Hear a phrase from the major scale and play it back on the mandolin here — then on yours. The root moves each round; press Play, and answer with Space when you have it. The browser only plays — the app listens.
Ionian (Major)
The major scale — the most familiar sound in Western music
Ionian is the major scale — the most familiar and foundational major major mode, and the most common scale in Western music. Bright, resolved, and stable: the default sound of nursery rhymes and most pop and rock. Its major pentatonic subset is the innate human melodic scale.
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or everyphrases
Notes
per phrase
Tempo
60bpm
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Hand
Frets
up to
Tuning
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Ionian (Major)
The major scale — the most familiar sound in Western music
Ionian is the major scale — the most familiar and foundational major major mode, and the most common scale in Western music. Bright, resolved, and stable: the default sound of nursery rhymes and most pop and rock. Its major pentatonic subset is the innate human melodic scale.
Root Shuffling. The root jumps to a new pitch periodically while the noteset type stays constant How it works →
On the mandolin: four courses in fifths, G D A E, the first twelve frets. Also called the ionian, ionian mode, maj scale.