Scales, chords and how they connect

Learn how music works.

Monk puts scales, chords, intervals, degrees and notation on one screen. Transpose anything, search backwards from the notes you hold, and hear it on a multitouch piano.

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Scales: 63
Chords: 32
Modes: 7
Inversions: Up to 5

Monk scale interface displayed on a tablet

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What it does

No more secrets in music.

Theory clicks when you can see the structure, read it and play it in the same place. Monk keeps every piece of information on the main screen instead of hiding it behind menus.

Explore 63 scales and 32 chords

See how each shape is built, transpose it to any root, and reveal the chords that belong to a scale — or the scales containing a chord.

Library · relationships

Search backwards from the notes

Choose the notes you are hearing, set the match accuracy and root, then find scales or chords that contain exactly those notes.

Scale & chord finder

Play and arpeggiate the shape

Sound individual notes or the whole scale and chord, with a multitouch piano and up to five selectable inversions.

Multitouch · 5 inversions

See theory as notation

Read every selection on a staff with its key signature, switch between treble and bass clef, and follow intervals and degrees.

Staff · intervals · degrees

How you use it

Three ways into the same musical picture.

Every mode keeps the keyboard, notes and staff connected. Begin with a known scale, a chord, or just the notes under your fingers.

1
Explore a scale or chord Normal mode
Choose one from the library; Monk immediately shows its notes, intervals, degrees and related scales or chords.
2
Find a scale from its notes Scale finder
Select the notes you know, choose a match threshold and root, then filter the matching scales.
3
Identify a chord Chord finder
Use the same note-first search to identify chords, hear the selection and explore its inversions on the keyboard.

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