Scale Syllabus vs StageScore.net

Scale Syllabus puts the 253 scales of Complete Scale Syllabus by Gianluca Barbaro in your pocket, and lets you see, hear and transpose every one of them. The scales are not a stored list. The app rebuilds them with the algorithm the book itself was made with: every seventh chord, every combination of available tensions, folded together by rotation. That is why the numbering matches the printed page exactly — scale 145 here is scale 145 in the book. WHAT YOU CAN DO • See any scale in standard notation, on a piano keyboard, or on a guitar or bass fretboard • Transpose to any of the twelve keys, with each note spelled the way a musician would write it • Start from any degree: pick a mode and the scale is shown from that note, in the key you chose • Hear a scale or any of its chords, ascending or arpeggiated, with the notes lighting up as they sound • See the triads and four-note chords every degree carries, inversions included, and view any of them the same three ways • Read the fretboard as a whole map, or touch a fret for the run one hand can play from there • Ask for a chord and the neck answers with shapes a hand can really hold — tap again for the next one • Walk through the sixteen ways a four-note chord can be laid out inside two octaves of keyboard • Choose your instrument once, and clef, written octave and transposition follow • Find a scale from the notes themselves: play a phrase into the microphone, or type the note names, and the app lists the scales that contain them and says what chord they make • Follow the relationships: which scales contain this one, which ones it contains, and which are a note away • Print a scale as a sheet of engraved music, export it as PDF, or share it • Read six short chapters of music theory, with figures the app draws itself • Mark favourites and keep your own written notes on any scale A guided tour goes through all of it the first time you open the app, and it can be replayed whenever you like. The app speaks English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese and Chinese, and you can look for a scale in your own language. The names of the scales themselves stay as the book prints them. WHAT MAKES IT ACCURATE The book's own derivation quietly loses four chord types, and with them five scales. This app generates them too — appended at the end, so that not a single number from the printed book moves. Note spelling follows musical function rather than whatever is cheapest to compute: a minor seventh chord is written C Eb G Bb, never C D# G A#. FREE AND COMPLETE Three scales are always open: major, harmonic minor and melodic minor — and with the major come all its modes, natural minor included. You can open two more of your choice, and the ones you open stay yours. A single purchase opens all 258 scales and unlocks printing, PDF export and sharing — no subscription, no account. Nothing you write leaves your device. The app has no accounts, no advertising and no tracking of any kind, and what you play into the microphone is analysed as it arrives and never recorded, stored or sent anywhere. Reports of wrong or missing scale names are welcome: me@barbaro.it

The singer changed the key? Your chart already did. StageScore is sheet music built for the bandstand. Pick a key and your instrument, and the whole chart is re-engraved on the spot: notes, chord symbols, key signature, accidentals. No new file, no transposing in your head, no signal needed. ANY KEY, ANY INSTRUMENT • Transpose a whole chart to any key in one tap. • Read the part for Bb, Eb or F instruments (trumpet, clarinet, tenor, soprano, alto and bari sax, horn), or in concert pitch. • Clean engraving, including a handwritten jazz look. THE VIEW EACH PLAYER NEEDS • Score for horns and melody players. • Chords for the rhythm section: a bar grid big enough to read in stage light. • Lyrics for the singer: big, readable verses, one section lit at a time, plus a teleprompter. A BAND IN YOUR POCKET • Bass, drums, keys and guitar play the changes in your key, at your tempo. • Swing, bossa, ballad, funk, rock, soul and more. Pick the feel, the kit and the instruments. • The bar being played can light up, so you never lose your place. MARK IT UP • Pen, highlighter, shapes, text and dynamics stamps. With Apple Pencil, just start writing. • Marks are anchored to the bars, so they stay put when you transpose or switch parts. • Notes per song or per gig: the intro, who solos, how it ends. BRING EVERY CHART YOU OWN • Import MusicXML (.musicxml, .mxl, .xml) from your notation software, PDFs and chord chart files, from Files or any cloud drive. • PDFs stay exactly as printed, and you can mark them up too. • Start a new score from scratch in the built-in notation editor, or write a chord chart bar by bar. READ THE PAGE (BETA) • Turn a PDF lead sheet into a chart you can transpose: notes, rhythm, key and chords, read by StageScore's page reader (free account and internet connection needed). • The printed line sits above what was read, and every doubtful bar is flagged for a second look. FIX IT WHERE YOU READ IT • Open any chart in the notes editor and drop notes, rests, accidentals, ties and triplets straight onto the music. • Change the key, the meter, barlines and repeats, or the chord symbols. • Hear any line back before you save. BAND BOOKS AND SETLISTS • Build setlists in running order, one tap to the next tune. • Share them in a Band Book: the band joins with a six-digit PIN. • Change the set and it updates for everyone, each player in their own key and view. • Download the book and it works offline on the gig. ON THE STAND • Chromatic tuner that reads in your instrument's key, with a movable reference pitch. • Metronome that takes the tempo off the chart. • Turn pages with a tap or a Bluetooth page-turner pedal. • Dark, red night-vision and high-contrast themes for any room. YOUR LIBRARY, SAFE • Your library lives on your device and works offline. No account needed to play. • With a free account: cloud backup, restore on your other devices, Band Books, and a community catalog of public-domain and chords-only charts. • Export any chart or setlist as a PDF, or back up your whole library to one file. In English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. Free, with no ads and no tracking. Made by a working saxophonist who got tired of transposing on the fly.