SCALE REFERENCE

D♯ Whole Tone

D♯ – F – G – A – B – C♯1 2 3 #4 #5 b7

Also written E♭ 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♯1F2G3A#4B#5C♯b7

Notes	D#, F, G, A, B, C#
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.