The Isthmus Interactive Scale Tutor

Here are clickable links to MIDI Isthmus and Sun's Java 1.3 JRE download page.

• Why is this thing called Isthmus?
• It's not much of a tutorial, is it? All it does is show notes and chords.
• Can I get the piano and guitar to play sounds?
• I double-clicked on a Dbb major scale but it showed me C major instead. What gives?
• These guitar fingerings for the different scales aren't the ones I'm used to. What gives?
• What's this "(user-defined)" thing I keep seeing?
• What's an inversion?
• What's a one-off scale?
• What's an enclosing scale?
• What's an embedded scale?
• How are the triads and sevenths for a given scale determined?
• Why is "ascending melodic minor" listed as a scale but "melodic minor" is not?
• Why isn't the chromatic scale listed?
• Why can't I find a particular scale?

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