
	Where results make sense

Topic: Whole tone scale

Related Topics

Scale (music)

Major scale

Minor scale

Tone row

Pentatonic scale

Chromatic scale

Twelve tone technique

Musical composition

Musical tuning

Musical mode

Serial music

Atonality

Music Terminology

Classical Music

Sheet music

In the News (Sat 14 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	GuitarPeople.com - Lessons
		Traditionally, the whole tone scale is confined to dominant 7b5 and dominant 7#5 chords.
		This whole tone fragment is a four point block or actually a rectangle that lies very nicely under your fingertips.
		Another approach to manipulating these whole tone fragments is to move these blocks of information up and down the guitar neck in whole steps (every two frets).
	www.guitarpeople.com /jazz/wholetone.asp (590 words)

	Whole tone scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In music, a whole tone scale (set form 6-35, 02468t) is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole step.
		In the 19th century Russian composers went further with melodic and harmonic possibilities of the scale, often to depict the ominous; consider the endings of the overtures to Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmila and Borodin's Prince Igor, the Commander's theme in Dargomyzhsky's The Stone Guest, and the opening theme of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade.
		The whole tone scale is interval cycle 2, or C2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whole_tone_scale (352 words)

	Guitar Theory Resources Whole Tone Scale
		From the construction of this scale, 1 3 (#4 or b5) (#5 or b6) b7 we can see that the 1 3 and b7 are the same intervals which exist in the dominant 7th chord.
		This scale therefore is mostly suited for use with dominant 7th or 9th chords which have either a raised or lowered fifth.
		Whole Tone scales are a lot of fun to play on the guitar as they provide so many different patterns and shapes which are easy to remember.
	johncomino.tripod.com /wholesc.htm (337 words)

	Whole Tone Scale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole step.
		There are only two whole tone scales, both hexachords, each using half of the pitcheses in the chromatic scale.
		Claude Debussy and other Impressionist composers made extensive use of whole tone scales; since they are symmetrical, whole tone scales don't give a strong impression of the tonic.
	www.wikiverse.org /whole-tone-scale (213 words)

	Marc Sabatella's Jazz Improvisation Primer: Symmetric Scales
		The HW diminished scale outlines a dominant seventh chord with a lowered ninth and fifth.
		This scale is very similar to the altered scale, which you may recall is also called the diminished whole tone scale.
		Note that this scale is the same as the D#, F#, and A WH diminished scales, and in fact Cdim7, D#dim7, F#dim7, and Adim7 are all inversions of the same chord.
	www.outsideshore.com /primer/primer/ms-primer-4-4.html (985 words)

	Sonic Glossary: Scale
		A scale is a collection of tones traversing the interval of the octave, among which one tone is particularly stable.
		The scales we have seen so far, the whole-tone, the chromatic, and the octatonic, have one characteristic in common: they are all symmetrical, that is, whatever pattern of steps is found in the first half of the scale is duplicated also in its second half.
		Scales that feature this kind of symmetry have an artificial quality, and are far more common in the music of the 20th Century, when composers began actively to search for structures that would enable them to draw out and explore new sonorities.
	www.columbia.edu /ccnmtl/draft/paul/sonic/scale.html (1950 words)

	[No title]
		In "Take the 'A' Train" the second chord is a II7 chord, try playing a whole tone scale that starts on the same note as the root of the chord.
		The D half-step/whole-step diminished scale would be used with D7alt, F7alt, Ab7alt and B7alt chords.
		Whole step/half step diminished scales are the same configuration of notes except that you start the scale with a whole step rather than a half step.
	www.saxlessons.com /symmetricalscales.htm (399 words)

	Hexatonic Scales (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The only common Hexatonic (6-note) scales we find in modern western music are the blues scale and the "whole tone scale." Of course any 7-note scale with one note missing can be regarded as a 6 note scale though in most cases the sound is not distinctly different from the original 7-note scale.
		The whole-tone scale is interesting in that it is a division of the octave into equal intervals.
		The whole tone scale also has the property that no matter which note you start on, it is still a whole tone scale.
	www.phy.mtu.edu /~suits/hexatonic.html (177 words)

	Scales that aren't Major or Minor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a scale, the pitches are usually arranged from lowest to highest (or highest to lowest), in a pattern that usually repeats within every octave.
		This scale gives all the sharp, flat, and natural notes commonly used in all Western music, and this is also the twelve-tone scale used by twentieth-century composers to create their atonal music.
		Like other scales, this pentatonic scale is transposable; you can move the entire scale up or down by a half step or a major third or any interval you like.
	cnx.org /content/m11636/latest (1412 words)

	The Whole tone scale I (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some theorists have classified in their analysis this scale as WT0 (whole tone 0) and WT1 (whole tone 1); the main difference is that the first one (WT0) the natural pitches are C-D-E and the other ones with accidentals, while the second one (WT1) would be on the contrary (C#-D#-E#).
		The Whole tone scale is usually related to the Impressionisms period and to Claude Debussy (1862-1918).
		This type of scale is harmonically limited because it is impossible to build mayor or minor triads and the only seventh chord we could create are the dominant 7th but with his diminished 5th, in other words, the French augmented sixth, or with the augmented 5th.
	www.teoria.com /articulos/aramirez/01.htm (194 words)

	iBreatheMusic Forums - Diminished and whole tone?
		Whole Tone scale: There are 12 half steps (one fret) in the chromatic scale, a Whole step is two half steps (two frets).
		The whole tone scale is not diatonic neither is the m3 (dim7 arp) scale.
		Often confused with the Whole Tone scale, the Augmented scale is another synthetic scale which is made up of a repeating pattern of intervals.
	www.ibreathemusic.com /forums/printthread.php?t=767 (1022 words)

	Music Theory
		A scale is simply a progression of notes in ascending or descending order, so arranged for theoretical purposes, vocal or instrumental exercise, or as part of a composition.
		A chromatic scale is a scale that is proceeded entirely by semitones.
		The scale starting on D is obviously part of the same series as the one starting on C, and so on.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/1795/scales.htm (593 words)

	The Sound of Mathematics - Constants
		0 is a pause, 1 - 7 is the E whole tone scale including the octave, 8 and 9 sustains the previously determined tone.
		The digits 1 to 8 is the E harmonic minor scale, 0 is a quarter pause, 9 means change octave and the 9 itself takes on the same pitch as the previously dtermined tone but in the new octave (the piece oscillates up and down over two octaves).
		If the first tone of a two beat pattern was determined by an odd digit, then pitches are of the lower octave, otherwise the upper octave.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/9349/constants.html (1250 words)

	A special triad set of the whole tone scale
		cadence-sets) and the harmonic minor scale (21 minimal cadence sets) is a property of the scale or of the special choice of triads.
		Originally, I did not work with the whole-tone scale but with the seven-element scale that you get when you add an arbitrary tone to the whole-tone scale (this scale is unique up to transpositions; it is number 62 according to the numbering in
		As for melodies, we are left with the whole-tone scale, which means there are no "modes" in the known sense of the word - the beginning tone does not seem to matter.
	home.datacomm.ch /straub/mamuth/modul/wt_e.html (539 words)

	The Invention
		In the Whole Tone Scale the distance from the nut to the bridge is divided by 9 to locate the first whole tone fret.
		In similar fashion to the Rule of the Eighteen, this formula of dividing remaining string length by 9 is repeated until all of the frets for producing whole tones are placed on the fingerboard.
		The Whole Tone Scale suffers from a similar deficiency in that the fret placement does not result in perfect whole tones when the strings are vibrated.
	www.salazarguitars.com /pages/invention.htm (446 words)

	Shapes in music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The red notes designate one whole tone scale and the fl notes represent the other.
		And they are related by the diminished fifth; rotate one whole tone scale 6 1/2 steps (180 degrees) in relation to the other and you switch from the Circle of 1/2 steps to the Circle of fifths.
		Spinning the major scale polygon one whole step clockwise gives you the notes in the key of D major.
	www.surfingpharaoh.com /music_ed/shapemusc.htm (548 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		These different scales provide distinct foundations for these diverse musical styles; yet in their basic structure, these scales are not that different from one another.
		Scales represent a base reduction of the pitch materials of a given music and must therefore be unique, yet very simple.
		The scales which are most common to our musical experience, and perhaps the Major Scale is the prime example, have simple, elegant structures yet have the potential to yield complex and intricately detailed music.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122114 (2440 words)

	ExNET: Exhibits: Group 9: Circular Scales (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The leading tone seems unresolved unless it is followed by a note called the tonic or home tone.
		In the whole tone scale, all adjacent notes are equally spaced a whole-step interval apart.
		In the major scale, which does have a leading tone, some adjacent notes are a half-step interval apart, and other adjacent notes are a whole step interval apart.
	www.exploratorium.edu /cmp/exnet/exhibits/group9/circular_scales (176 words)

	Guitar Nine Records - Guest Column: Concepts For Playing "Outside": Part 1
		Due to the symetrical nature of this scale, the A whole tone scale would be: A B C# D# F G. That's just 6 notes in contrast to the major scale's 7 notes.
		This lick starts and ends on the (inside) chord tone B as the third and in the middle goes through a sequence in fourths, so it goes "in and out" and can be played over a regular G7 chord.
		In the third bar of Lick 2, bend from C to D then hold the bend and tap on the fifteenth fret, pull off to the thirteenth fret and finally release the bend back to C. Bar two is whole tone scale and the ending phrase is all Mixolydian mode.
	www.guitar9.com /columnist247.html (449 words)

	Music Theory: Jazz Scales: Symmetric Scales: Whole Tone Scale
		The seventh degree is enharmonic with the root of the scale.
		The whole tone scale is the natural choice for this chord.
		Note that each repetition of the basic pattern starts on a different degree of the whole tone scale, but because the scale is symmetric, the repetition is perfect.
	www.outsideshore.com /school/music/almanac/html/Music_Theory/Jazz_Scales/Symmetric_Scales/Whole_Tone_Scale.htm (305 words)

	Saxophone Tutorials - Whole Tone Scale Exercises
		There are only two whole tone scales with different notes in as each step of the scale is a whole tone: you can see in the example below that if you started the scale on C it would have the same notes as the Bb scale.
		When writing the scale the choice of enharmonics can be arbitrary, but you should try to get the correct enharmonic spelling for the chord in question.
		In the second scale (B), it is correct that the third degree is D# not Eb.
	www.petethomas.co.uk /saxophone-8-01.html (197 words)

	M I L E S O S L A N D - Professor of Saxophone
		The Lydian scale (or mode) is a major scale with a raised fourth (see example one), or a scale that borrows the major key signature from from a perfect fourth below, or a perfect fifth above (see example two).
		The Lydian Augmented scale is a major scale with raised fourth and fifth degrees (see example three), a Lydian scale with a raised fifth degree (see example four), or a scale that borrows the ascending form of the melodic minor scale from a minor third below or a major sixth above (see example five).
		The Whole Tone scale can be applied in a progression with a dominant chord that consists of a raised fifth, raised fourth (or lowered fifth, sharp eleven), or both.
	www.milesosland.com /shtmus/jp1.html (747 words)

	M I L E S O S L A N D - Professor of Saxophone
		One scale choice for the chord in measure B would be the Altered scale.
		A complete Whole Tone scale is applied over the C#7 #11 #9 #5 chord in bar eight of the solo transcription as a type of sheets of sound¾ flourish.
		This Whole Tone scale starts on the sharp five of the chord (A), and travels though the seventh (B), root (C#), ninth (D#), third (F) and sharp eleventh (G).
	www.milesosland.com /shtmus/jp2.html (759 words)

	whole-tone scale - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about whole-tone scale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In music, a scale consisting of six whole tones per octave.
		There are only two possible variants: the scale including the notes C–D–E–F sharp–G sharp–A sharp, and the scale including the notes D flat–E flat–F–G–A–B. In Western music the whole-tone scale became popular with Impressionist composers, including Debussy, partly because having no semitones or perfect intervals within the scale, it has no sense of tonic.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Whole-tone+scale (126 words)

	JazzHouston \| Jazz Forum \| Message View
		I could go reharmonize the melodic minor scale and see what chords and modes are produced but I thought someone might know off the top of their head.
		Don't forget using the plain old whole tone scale on D the G#(Ab) gives a bebop/blues sound to the D7 and the A#(Bb) gives a "bluesy" sound resolving to the Gmaj (Trane loved to play the the #5 on a dom7 chord in his early years).
		It's Diminished-Whole Tone because the first five tones are 1/2 step-Whole Step, just like a diminished scale, and the last five tones are all whole steps, just like a whole tone scale.
	www.jazzhouston.com /forum/messages.jsp?pKey=1&key=6603 (688 words)

	Guitar Files® Synthetic Scales
		In theory scales that fall outside the sphere of major or minor and the modes are known as synthetic scales.
		The whole tone scale allows harmonic transitions that are not possible in conventional diatonic harmony (Major) and is very uselful in soloing over chord progressions.
		Remember that there are only two whole tone scales needed to cover all 12 keys so open your mind with all the possibilities.
	www.theguitarfiles.com /guitarfile73.html (282 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)