SCALE REFERENCE

G♭ Whole Tone

G♭ – A♭ – B♭ – C – D – E1 2 3 #4 #5 b7

Also written F♯ 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

G♭1A♭2B♭3C#4D#5Eb7

Notes	Gb, Ab, Bb, 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 G♭

Core scales & modes

G♭ Major G♭ Natural Minor G♭ Harmonic Minor G♭ Melodic Minor G♭ Dorian G♭ Phrygian G♭ Lydian G♭ Mixolydian G♭ Locrian

Pentatonic & blues

G♭ Major Pentatonic G♭ Minor Pentatonic G♭ Blues G♭ Major Blues

Jazz & altered

G♭ Harmonic Major G♭ Phrygian Dominant G♭ Lydian Dominant G♭ Altered G♭ Bebop Dominant

Symmetric

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

World & exotic

G♭ Hungarian Minor G♭ Double Harmonic Major G♭ 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.