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Scales Warrior

Most scale pages stop at one scale. This site maps the ground between them: the family a mode belongs to, the modes one altered degree away, and where each one’s mirror image lands.

The Families Neighbours

A free atlas of scale relations for players and writers: seven families of seven-note scales, each rotated into its modes with the names its source prints, every pair of modes that one altered degree separates, and each family’s interval content and mirror image — every cell worked out from the notes and re-derived before it ships.

How the Atlas Is Drawn

1

Declare a Family

Seven parent sets, each taken from a published source that defines it and names its modes — the diatonic, melodic minor, harmonic minor, harmonic major and double harmonic families, and the two Neapolitans.

2

Rotate It

Start the set on each of its degrees in turn and measure every note from there. Seven starting points give seven modes, each written in degrees from its own root.

3

Alter One Degree

Raise or lower one degree of a mode by a semitone. When the result is a mode of any declared family, the two are neighbours, and the atlas records which degree it took.

What Lives Here

The Families

Seven families side by side, which ones touch, and a page for each with its modes, interval content and mirror.

Neighbours

Stand on any mode and see every scale one altered degree away, then every such pair in the atlas.

About

What the atlas maps, what it leaves to its sisters, and how every cell is re-derived before it ships.

Theme Builder

Four colours in, a contrast-checked palette out, for every table of modes and neighbours.

The Site That Maps the Ground Between Scales

The rest of the Warrior Network publishes scales: drawn on instruments, given a page each on the theory site, played in their own styles. This site does the one thing none of them does — it lays the scales out as families and shows how they connect, mode by mode and degree by degree. It describes no scale on its own terms; it maps, and shows its working.