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I keep thinking of ways to visualise scales, and this is the latest iteration of what I’ve come up with. I call it the notes “ladder”.

The intent is that the first visual glance should convey the most important thing about a scale - the intervals between the notes in it.

The webpage is interactive - you can hover/tap on the notes to hear how they sound in the context of the other notes in the scale. There's also a guitar tab form and a piano form.

The scale it uses is the Raag Bhairav. Raagas, from Indian classical music, are not really scales, they’re more akin to Markov chains, but thinking of them as a scale is an okay first approximation (there is also a page in there which explains all these theory details further)

Link to the vis: https://mrmr.io/raag/bhairav