C Piano Scales

All C piano scales — click any card for full diagrams, fingerings, audio, and notation.

C is the home base of Western music: its major scale is all white keys, with no sharps or flats. That makes chords and scales rooted on C the natural starting point for learning the keyboard. Every scale and mode starting on C is listed below — from the major and minor scales through the pentatonic, blues, modal, and exotic sets — each with diagrams, fingerings, audio, and notation.