Scales for the Flamenco Guitar

Choose a root and a type for its notes across the neck; each one is heard, in the end, against a cycle of counts.

Choose a root and one of 24 types to see it laid out on the fretboard, roots marked throughout.

On the flamenco guitar a scale is the raw material of the falseta — a composed melodic passage the guitarist drops between sung verses — and of the runs a toque answers the cante with.

Whatever notes a passage runs through, it is measured in compás: it sets off and comes to rest where the count of the palo allows, so every scale here is finally heard against a cycle of accents.