SCALE REFERENCE

E Whole Tone

E – F♯ – G♯ – A♯ – C – D1 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

E1F♯2G♯3A♯#4C#5Db7

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

Core scales & modes

E Major E Natural Minor E Harmonic Minor E Melodic Minor E Dorian E Phrygian E Lydian E Mixolydian E Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

E Major Pentatonic E Minor Pentatonic E Blues E Major Blues

Jazz & altered

E Harmonic Major E Phrygian Dominant E Lydian Dominant E Altered E Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

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

World & exotic

E Hungarian Minor E Double Harmonic Major E 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.