About the A Prometheus scale
A Prometheus is the mystic chord of Scriabin turned into a scale, a raised fourth with no fifth. It's used for impressionist and mystical concert music.
Learn morePositions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
6-position system
6 four-fret boxes, one per scale degree, each a single hand position with almost no shifting. The jazz and classical way, from William Leavitt's Berklee method.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | A | Root |
| 2 | B | Major 2nd |
| 3 | C sharp | Major 3rd |
| 4 | D sharp | Augmented 4th |
| 5 | F sharp | Major 6th |
| 6 | G | Augmented 6th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Prometheus in other keys
C Prometheus D flat Prometheus D Prometheus E flat Prometheus E Prometheus F Prometheus G flat Prometheus G Prometheus A flat Prometheus B flat Prometheus B Prometheus
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
