SCALE REFERENCE

B♭ Whole Tone

B♭ – C – D – E – G♭ – A♭1 2 3 #4 #5 b7

Also written A♯ Whole Tone — the same pitches spelled the other way.

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

B♭1C2D3E#4G♭#5A♭b7

Notes	Bb, C, D, E, Gb, Ab
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 B♭

Core scales & modes

B♭ Major B♭ Natural Minor B♭ Harmonic Minor B♭ Melodic Minor B♭ Dorian B♭ Phrygian B♭ Lydian B♭ Mixolydian B♭ Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

B♭ Major Pentatonic B♭ Minor Pentatonic B♭ Blues B♭ Major Blues

Jazz & altered

B♭ Harmonic Major B♭ Phrygian Dominant B♭ Lydian Dominant B♭ Altered B♭ Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

B♭ Diminished (Whole–Half)B♭ Diminished (Half–Whole)B♭ Augmented Scale

World & exotic

B♭ Hungarian Minor B♭ Double Harmonic Major B♭ 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.