Scales for the Octave Mandolin

Pick a root note — melody maps for GDAE courses, with sound.

The Octave Mandolin scale reference: choose a root and one of 24 types — common, pentatonic, blues, modal, bebop, symmetric, world — and see the pattern the way the GDAE courses actually carry it.

Pure fifths make scales symmetrical: the finger pattern that plays octave mandolin notes on one course pair plays them on every other pair, so one shape learned is twelve keys owned.