Augmented scale
Alternating minor thirds and half steps closes the octave in six notes, and that regularity is what makes the scale symmetrical.
- Used for
- Jazz and film music that wants an augmented, symmetrical color.
- Formula
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Steps 1½ H 1½ H 1½ H Semitones 3-1-3-1-3-1 Degrees 1 ♭3 3 5 ♯5 7 - Relationships
- It is the second mode of the Hybrid Hexachord scale.
- Also called
- Augmented Hexatonic.
Augmented in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Augmented scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Augmented scale piano guitar
- D D Augmented scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Augmented scale piano guitar
- E E Augmented scale piano guitar
- F F Augmented scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Augmented scale piano guitar
- G G Augmented scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Augmented scale piano guitar
- A A Augmented scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Augmented scale piano guitar
- B B Augmented scale piano guitar
