A Tritone Scale on Piano — Keyboard, Notes & Fingering

About the A Tritone scale

A Tritone is used for jazz and film music that wants a symmetrical, unstable color. Think of it as a symmetrical six-note scale built on the tritone. It is A Blues Diminished with the third lowered.

Its notes are A, B♭, C♯, D♯, E, and G. The formula is H 1½ W H 1½ W.

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The scale draws three black keys from the piano, B♭, C♯, and D♯.

Notes and intervals

1	AA	Root
2	BbB♭	Minor 2nd
3	C#C♯	Major 3rd
4	D#D♯	Augmented 4th
5	EE	Perfect 5th
6	GG	Minor 7th

Steps	H 1½ W H 1½ W
Semitones	1-3-2-1-3-2
Degrees	1 ♭2 3 ♯4 5 ♭7

Shapes

Chromatic

Circle of Fifths

Related scales

Tritone in other keys

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