SCALE REFERENCE

F♯ Whole Tone

F♯ – G♯ – A♯ – C – D – E1 2 3 #4 #5 b7

Also written G♭ 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

F♯1G♯2A♯3C#4D#5Eb7

Notes	F#, G#, A#, C, D, E
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 F♯

Core scales & modes

F♯ Major F♯ Natural Minor F♯ Harmonic Minor F♯ Melodic Minor F♯ Dorian F♯ Phrygian F♯ Lydian F♯ Mixolydian F♯ Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

F♯ Major Pentatonic F♯ Minor Pentatonic F♯ Blues F♯ Major Blues

Jazz & altered

F♯ Harmonic Major F♯ Phrygian Dominant F♯ Lydian Dominant F♯ Altered F♯ Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

F♯ Diminished (Whole–Half)F♯ Diminished (Half–Whole)F♯ Augmented Scale

World & exotic

F♯ Hungarian Minor F♯ Double Harmonic Major F♯ 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.