SCALE REFERENCE

C♯ Whole Tone

C♯ – D♯ – F – G – A – B1 2 3 #4 #5 b7

Also written D♭ 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

C♯1D♯2F3G#4A#5Bb7

Notes	C#, D#, F, G, A, B
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 C♯

Core scales & modes

C♯ Major C♯ Natural Minor C♯ Harmonic Minor C♯ Melodic Minor C♯ Dorian C♯ Phrygian C♯ Lydian C♯ Mixolydian C♯ Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

C♯ Major Pentatonic C♯ Minor Pentatonic C♯ Blues C♯ Major Blues

Jazz & altered

C♯ Harmonic Major C♯ Phrygian Dominant C♯ Lydian Dominant C♯ Altered C♯ Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

C♯ Diminished (Whole–Half)C♯ Diminished (Half–Whole)C♯ Augmented Scale

World & exotic

C♯ Hungarian Minor C♯ Double Harmonic Major C♯ 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.