About ScaleSMART

Find ANY Pattern, ANY Key, ANY Position in six different tunings, within 3 clicks and one simple move of the slider, GUARANTEED!

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You can buy ChordSMART and ScaleSMART together and save.

SMART Bundle Pro
For the best bargain, get everything you need for Scales, Chords and Tablature - all with a savings of over 20%.

Scales are the basis of lead guitar and fundamental to your understanding the guitar. They used to take years of hard effort, but now there is ScaleSMART - the fastest and easiest way to learn thousands of scale patterns!

Are you tired of flipping though books to find the one scale you need?
Tired of memorizing pattern after pattern, each one close but different from the last?
Are you stuck playing the same scale over and over again

Features

Scales Included With ScaleSMART

With ScaleSMART you will BREAK-THROUGH the barriers to your soloing dreams.

Typically you find a scale pattern for one position, and you have to memorize it. Learning the same scale in a different position is a completely different diagram, so to master one scale in one key, you need to memorize 5 or more patterns. When you figure 12 keys, you end up with 60 or more patterns that have to be learned.

Becoming an expert means learning hundreds or thousands of patterns.

With ScalesSMART you will master core patterns

ScaleSMART allows you to blend these patterns together easily. Learn one pattern and see how it applies to other keys instantly. See how patterns at one fret relate to patterns for neighboring frets.

• Major
• Pentatonic
• Natural Minor
• Harmonic Minor
• Melodic Minor
• Gypsy Minor
• Chromatic
• Dorian
• Phrygian
• Lydia
• Mixolydian
• Aeolian
• Locrian
• Arabian
• Hawaiian

• Hindustan
• Hungarian
• Javanese
• Leading Whole-Tone
• Lydian Minor
• Mohammedan
• Neapolitan Major
• Oriental
• Overtone
• Persian
• Rumanian
• Spanish
• Super Locrian
• Symmetric

You will learn the pattern of each scale, but learning the notes that make up scales is also important. With ScaleSMART you will achieve a better understanding of the fretboard naturally over time. Each note is labeled, and key signature notes are especially highlighted so you become more familiar with them each time you use the software.

Take a look at the ScaleSMART sample below. Drag the move me button and notice how each fingering pattern blends into the next. With ScaleSMART Visualizing how scales patterns blend together is straightforward and fast.

Drag the 'move me' button below

Build on what you already know

What scale diagrams don't show you is how patterns are re-used. Click on theA-G Key Buttons below to see how learning one pattern actually gives you all twelve keys!

Click on theA-G Key Buttons below

No other software offers such an easy and visual method of learning scales.

The SMART family of products is designed with musicians in mind. Our first product, the NSA Guitar Tutor, was released in 1997 and we’ve packed 7 years of experience and refinement into our product line. We listen to our customers, and strive to provide better products that meet their needs.

You can get started right away! Buy ScalesSMART for $14.95 - less than the cost of 1 lesson! Buy Now. Or you can download a free limited trial and see why ScaleSMART is the SMART way to learn.

2/24/2005 - ScaleSMART and ChordSMART updated for OSX!

It's the most amazing scale tool I've ever seen....I was an expert at using ScaleSMART about 1 minute after loading it.

-- Nick Torres, Senior Editor, www.guitarnoise.com

ScaleSMART is available for PC and Mac. The trail version is limited to 3 scale types, but is otherwise fully functional. The full version is available immediately after purchase.

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