Scales and Chords
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Scale Abbreviations
| CHR - Chromatic | O1 - Octatonic 1, 2 |
| MAJ - Major O2 | O2 - Octatonic 2, 1 |
| MIN - Minor | PT - Pentatonic Major |
| DOR - Dorian | PTM - Pentatonic Minor |
| PHY - Phrygian | M7 - Major 7th Chord |
| LYD - Lydian | D7 - Dominant 7th Chord |
| MIX - Mixolydian | HM - Harmonic Minor |
| LOC - Locrian | WT - Whole Tone |
M7 and D7 are four note chords which are useful as scale types though they are not actually scales. You can think of them in this case like four note scales (only one fewer than a Pentatonic, for example).
Chord Abbreviations
| Unison | Dyads (2Notes) | Triads (3 Notes) | Sevenths (4 Notes) |
| U - Unison Single Notes | m2 - minor | M - Major | M7 - Major 7th |
| M2 - Major 2nd | m - minor | D7 - Domintant 7th | |
| m3 - minor 3rd | A - augmented | m7 - minor 7th | |
| M3 - Major 3rd | D - diminshed | h7 - half diminished 7th | |
| P4 - Perfect 4th | S2 - suspended 2nd | d7 - diminished 7th | |
| TT - Tritone (dim 5th) | S4 - suspended 4th | ||
| P5 - Perfect 5th | |||
| m6 - minor 6th | |||
| M6 - Major 6th | |||
| m7 - minor 7th | |||
| M7 - Major 7th | |||
| P8 - Octave |