🎹 Piano Scale Cheat Sheet Generator

Generate a beautifully visualized Piano Scale Cheat Sheet with Python! The generated PDF is optimized for A4 size and black-and-white printing.

✨ Features of the Generated Sheet

• Visualizes scale notes on the keyboard at a glance
  • Emphasized root notes: The root note of each key is highlighted with a larger circled label. It is placed on the left side of the keyboard.
  • Easy tracking of sharps and flats: The display clearly indicates not only the physical positions of sharps (#) and flats (b), but also their total count within the key.
  • Whole step indication: Non-scale keys are shaded with a dotted pattern, making it visually explicit when two scale notes are separated by a whole step.
• Circle of Fifths layout: Keys with a perfect fifth relationship are placed directly adjacent to one another.

🚀 How to Use

1. Install the required library:

   pip install matplotlib

2. Run the script:

   python generate_sheet.py

   Optional: You can also force all keyboards to start with a specific note using the --mode argument:

   python generate_sheet.py --mode dynamic  # Mixed for best fit (Default)
   python generate_sheet.py --mode c        # All keyboards start with C
   python generate_sheet.py --mode f        # All keyboards start with F

3. Open the generated scale_cheat_sheet.pdf!

📄 License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.