SCALE REFERENCE

D Whole Tone

D – E – F♯ – G♯ – A♯ – C1 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

D1E2F♯3G♯#4A♯#5Cb7

Notes	D, E, F#, G#, A#, 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.