Welcome to the Guitar Scale Wiz Scale Generator website.

This site was designed to provide an easy way for guitarists to find fretboard diagrams of scales to practice.

Using the Scale Generator you can select from a range of different scales and view guitar scale diagrams in five positions on the neck in any key. An example diagram for A Minor Pentatonic is shown below.

A Minor Pentatonic Position 1

A 1 C b3 D 4 E 5 G b7 A 1 C b3 D 4 E 5 G b7 A 1 C b3 5 7 9

The following scales are currently supported by the scale generator.

  • Minor Pentatonic
  • Major Pentatonic
  • Blues Scale
  • Major Scale
  • Natural Minor Scale
  • Harmonic Minor Scale
  • Melodic Minor Scale
  • Ionian Mode
  • Dorian Mode
  • Phrygian Mode
  • Lydian Mode
  • MixoLydian Mode
  • Aeolian Mode
  • Locrian Mode

If you would like to request a scale to be added to the Scale Generator please use the Contact form

How to use the Scale Generator

It's very easy to use the Scale Generator. Please select the key and scale type from the Scale Generator Search bar above. The search bar is located at the top of the page underneath the site logo. A screenshot of the search bar is shown below. Search Bar
Click the 'Get Scale' button to display the scale diagrams and tab for the selected scale.

Scale Generator Options

The Scale Generator has three option buttons as shown below.

Hide Tab Button image

'Hide/Show Tab' button By default Tab diagrams are also displayed along with the guitar scale diagrams. The user can toggle between showing or hiding the Tab diagrams by clicking this button.

Show Intervals Button image

'Show Intervals/Show Notes' button The user can toggle between showing scale note intervals or scale note names on the scale diagrams by clicking this button.

Print Version Button image

The 'Print Version' button opens a new browser tab/window and displays a printer friendly page which displays just the diagrams without any other text. Useful for displaying on a music stand!