SCALE REFERENCE

C Whole Tone

C – D – E – F♯ – G♯ – A♯1 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

C1D2E3F♯#4G♯#5A♯b7

Notes	C, D, E, 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 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.