SCALE REFERENCE

E♭ Whole Tone

E♭ – F – G – A – B – D♭1 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
E♭1F2G3A#4B#5D♭b7
NotesEb, F, G, A, B, Db
StepsW – W – W – W – W – W (W = whole, H = half)
Piano
FGABE♭D♭
Guitar & ukulele — every position (frets 0–12)
357912eFGABD♭E♭BBD♭E♭FGABGGABD♭E♭FGDE♭FGABD♭AABD♭E♭FGAEFGABD♭E♭

Root notes are red. The full map of the scale on the guitar neck; the common box patterns are groups of these notes.

357912AABD♭E♭FGAEFGABD♭E♭CD♭E♭FGABGGABD♭E♭FG

The same scale on a ukulele in standard G–C–E–A tuning.

Other scales on E♭

Core scales & modes

E♭ MajorE♭ Natural MinorE♭ Harmonic MinorE♭ Melodic MinorE♭ DorianE♭ PhrygianE♭ LydianE♭ MixolydianE♭ Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

E♭ Major PentatonicE♭ Minor PentatonicE♭ BluesE♭ Major Blues

Jazz & altered

E♭ Harmonic MajorE♭ Phrygian DominantE♭ Lydian DominantE♭ AlteredE♭ Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

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

World & exotic

E♭ Hungarian MinorE♭ Double Harmonic MajorE♭ Neapolitan Minor
Whole Tone on another root
CC♯D♭DE♭D♯EFF♯G♭GA♭G♯AB♭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.