SCALE REFERENCE

D♭ Whole Tone

D♭ – E♭ – F – G – A – B1 2 3 #4 #5 b7

Also written C♯ 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

D♭1E♭2F3G#4A#5Bb7

Notes	Db, Eb, 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 D♭

Core scales & modes

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

Pentatonic & blues

D♭ Major Pentatonic D♭ Minor Pentatonic D♭ Blues D♭ Major Blues

Jazz & altered

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

Symmetric

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

World & exotic

D♭ Hungarian Minor D♭ Double Harmonic Major D♭ 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.