Scale Visualizer Now Supports Mandolin and Banjo

May 25, 2026

I’ve updated my unified scale pattern visualizer with new instruments. Mandolin is tuned in fifths, so the patterns look quite different from guitar. I added a 12-string perfect-fifths tuning to visualize the full 7-string repeating pattern when using 4 note-per-string scales on mandolin. I also added open G and open C banjo because good resources for C-tuned banjo are surprisingly hard to find. The algorithm now picks the right octave automatically based on the tuning, so everything just works. Give it a try.