Scale Generator Calculator

No -- Notes in Scale is completely inert to Root Note across every option; it's set entirely by Scale Type, since the interval pattern (how many steps the scale takes above the root) is fixed per scale, and transposing that pattern to a different starting note doesn't add or remove steps. A Blues scale always has 6 notes and a Major scale always has 7, whichever root you pick.

Every scale pattern in this calculator starts with an interval of 0 semitones above the root, by definition -- that's what makes a note the "root" of the scale. Root Note is the only input that moves Note 1 at all; Scale Type is completely inert against it, since every pattern here shares the same first-degree interval of zero regardless of which scale you pick.

It places the selected scale within the traditional 1-7 numbering of the major scale's own modes -- Dorian is mode 2, Mixolydian is mode 5, and Major itself is mode 1. Minor-scale variants (Natural, Harmonic, and Melodic Minor) are all grouped under mode 6, since they share Aeolian's basic minor character even though their exact interval patterns differ. Major Pentatonic and Blues report Mode Number 0, since neither one is actually a mode of the major scale -- they have a different number of scale degrees entirely, so forcing them into the 1-7 numbering would be misleading.

-1 is a placeholder meaning that scale degree doesn't exist for the selected Scale Type -- the five-note Major Pentatonic scale has no sixth or seventh degree, and the six-note Blues scale has no seventh, so those fields report -1 instead of a real note value rather than showing a misleading 0 (which would read as the pitch C).