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Every eight-note scale
There are 43 eight-note scales once you fold together transpositions and modes. Where tradition has no name, you'll see the one William Zeitler coined for it at AllTheScales.org, marked coined.
Every eight-note scale
There are 43 eight-note scales once you fold together transpositions and modes (a mode is the same notes from a different root). Each is shown as degrees against the major scale, in the mode closest to major, with every name we know. Where tradition has no name, you'll see the one William Zeitler coined for it at AllTheScales.org, marked coined. Only scales with a leap of a fourth or more have no name at all.
Also: every 5-note scale · every 6-note scale · every 7-note scale
All 43 scales· 7 of 43 have a traditional name · every mode is under Modes.
| # | Degrees (vs. major) and steps | Name(s) | |
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| 1 | 1♭22345678HHWHWWWH | Staptyllic coined Modes: Bebop Melodic Minor, Bebop Minor, Melodic Minor Bebop |
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| 2 | 123456♭778WWHWWHHH | Bebop Dominant Modes: Mode 5, Bebop Minor |
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| 3 | 12♭3345678WHHHWWWH | Katagyllic coined Modes: Spanish 8-Tone, 8 Tone Spanish |
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| 4 | 12345♭6678WWHWHHWH | Bebop Major Modes: Bebop Harmonic Minor, Harmonic Minor Bebop, Bebop Natural Minor |
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| 5 | 1♭2♯2345678HWHHWWWH | Stythyllic coined Modes: Aerothyllic, Mixoryllic, Thanyllic, Racryllic, Epicryllic, Stygyllic, Syryllic |
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| 6 | 12345♭6♭778WWHWHWHH | Stogyllic coined Modes: Ionidyllic, Stonyllic, Stalyllic, Poryllic, Mocryllic, Aeolyryllic, Baryllic |
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| 7 | 1♭22♭334568HHHHHWWW+H | Aerocryllic coined Modes: Zanyllic, Aeolonyllic, Aeonyllic, Kyryllic, Sythyllic, Katycryllic, Kataryllic |
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| 8 | 1♭22356♭778HHWW+HWHHH | Ionagyllic coined Modes: Gogyllic, Phradyllic, Mixolydyllic, Mixonyphyllic, Aeolanyllic, Thocryllic, Kygyllic |
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| 9 | 1♭22♭335678HHHHW+HWWH | Zocryllic coined Modes: Katocryllic, Aerathyllic, Stoptyllic, Phranyllic, Stydyllic, Zadyllic, Zalyllic |
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| 10 | 1♭22345♭778HHWHWW+HHH | Daryllic coined Modes: Monyllic, Styryllic, Aeolacryllic, Raptyllic, Tharyllic, Sylyllic, Lothyllic |
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| 11 | 1♯234♯45678W+HHHHHWWH | Gythyllic coined Modes: Pyryllic, Rycryllic, Phrathyllic, Badyllic, Phrocryllic, Staryllic, Zothyllic |
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| 12 | 1♭23456♭778HW+HHWWHHH | Modyllic coined Modes: Aeolothyllic, Ionyryllic, Rydyllic, Gonyllic, Rolyllic, Katydyllic, Zyptyllic |
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| 13 | 12♭3356♭778WHHW+HWHHH | Zydyllic coined Modes: Katolyllic, Rythyllic, Pothyllic, Phronyllic, Stynyllic, Rathyllic, Aeryptyllic |
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| 14 | 1♭22345♭678HHWHWHW+HH | Phroptyllic coined Modes: Kodyllic, Epaptyllic, Ionoyllic, Gyptyllic, Aerythyllic, Aeolathyllic, Aeolocryllic |
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| 15 | 12♭3345♭678WHHHWHW+HH | Manyllic coined Modes: Polyllic, Stanyllic, Mixotharyllic, Eporyllic, Aerynyllic, Doptyllic, Ionilyllic |
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| 16 | 1♭234♯45678HW+HHHHWWH | Zolyllic coined Modes: Bacryllic, Aerygyllic, Dathyllic, Boptyllic, Bagyllic, Mathyllic, Styptyllic |
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| 17 | 1♭2235♭6678HHWW+HHHWH | Madyllic coined Modes: Dycryllic, Aeologyllic, Dagyllic, Katalyllic, Katoryllic, Dodyllic, Zogyllic |
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| 18 | 1♯23456♭778W+HHHWWHHH | Aeracryllic coined Modes: Epygyllic, Thonyllic, Lanyllic, Phrynyllic, Lycryllic, Ionyptyllic, Epathyllic |
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| 19 | 1♯2345♭6678W+HHHWHHWH | Lonyllic coined Modes: Sathyllic, Layllic, Saryllic, Thacryllic, Aeolynyllic, Thadyllic, Lynyllic |
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| 20 | 1♭2345♭6678HW+HHWHHWH | Sanyllic coined Modes: Thyptyllic, Ionogyllic, Aeolaryllic, Katygyllic, Ganyllic, Kyptyllic, Salyllic |