SCALE REFERENCE

B Whole Tone

B – D♭ – E♭ – F – G – A1 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

B1D♭2E♭3F#4G#5Ab7

Notes	B, Db, Eb, F, G, A
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.