SCALE REFERENCE

A Whole Tone

A – B – C♯ – D♯ – F – G1 2 3 #4 #5 b7

Six notes a whole step apart — no leading tone, no perfect 5th, no sense of gravity. The Debussy 'dreamlike' sound; the scale over a 7#5 chord.

Notes & degrees

A1B2C♯3D♯#4F#5Gb7

Notes	A, B, C#, D#, F, G
Steps	W – W – W – W – W – W (W = whole, H = half)

Piano

Guitar & ukulele — every position (frets 0–12)

Root notes are red. The full map of the scale on the guitar neck; the common box patterns are groups of these notes.

The same scale on a ukulele in standard G–C–E–A tuning.

Other scales on A

Core scales & modes

A Major A Natural Minor A Harmonic Minor A Melodic Minor A Dorian A Phrygian A Lydian A Mixolydian A Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

A Major Pentatonic A Minor Pentatonic A Blues A Major Blues

Jazz & altered

A Harmonic Major A Phrygian Dominant A Lydian Dominant A Altered A Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

A Diminished (Whole–Half)A Diminished (Half–Whole)A Augmented Scale

World & exotic

A Hungarian Minor A Double Harmonic Major A Neapolitan Minor

Whole Tone on another root

C C♯D♭D E♭D♯E F F♯G♭G A♭G♯A B♭A♯B

Keep exploring

See the diatonic chords with audio in the Scale & Chord Finder, find where a key sits among the others on the Circle of Fifths, or start the free Cloud Atelier music guides.