• 🎹 Key & Scale Finder

    Select the notes you're using and find the keys and scales that match your music.

    1. Select Your Notes
    Click every note that appears in your melody, chord progression, riff, or song. You can select as many notes as you need.
    No notes selected yet.
    2. Optional: Choose Your Root Note
    Select some notes above and click Find Keys & Scales.

  • A Key & Scale Finder helps musicians, singers, songwriters, producers, and music students identify musical keys and find scales that work with their songs, melodies, and chord progressions. It's a useful tool for figuring out which notes belong together and exploring different tonal possibilities when creating music.

    Use the tool to explore major, minor, pentatonic, blues, harmonic minor, melodic minor, modes, and other common scales. Finding the right key and scale can make it easier to write melodies, build chord progressions, improvise, create vocal harmonies, and choose notes that complement your music.

    Understanding the relationship between a key and its scale is an important part of music theory. For example, a song in C major primarily uses the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Changing the root note or scale type changes the collection of notes available to you and can dramatically change the mood and character of a piece.

    A Key & Scale Finder can also be helpful when you're trying to match a melody to chords, determine what scale to use for a solo, find compatible notes for a vocal line, or experiment with different musical sounds.

    Tip: Don't feel like you have to stay inside one scale the entire time. Once you understand the key of a song, experiment with related scales, modes, chromatic passing notes, and borrowed chords to create more interesting melodies and harmonies. Use the scale as a starting point rather than a set of rules you can't break.

    Related Pages:

    Easy Ways To Remember Key Signatures

    All About The "Do Re Mi" Scale - Including Hand Signs!