About the D Auxiliary Augmented scale
D Auxiliary Augmented is a whole-tone scale under another name, six notes of pure whole steps. It's used for jazz over dominant chords and impressionist textures.
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. This scale is symmetric, so the same box shape repeats up the neck.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | D | Root |
| 2 | E | Major 2nd |
| 3 | F sharp | Major 3rd |
| 4 | G sharp | Augmented 4th |
| 5 | A sharp | Augmented 5th |
| 6 | C | Minor 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Auxiliary Augmented in other keys
C Auxiliary Augmented D flat Auxiliary Augmented E flat Auxiliary Augmented E Auxiliary Augmented F Auxiliary Augmented G flat Auxiliary Augmented G Auxiliary Augmented A flat Auxiliary Augmented A Auxiliary Augmented B flat Auxiliary Augmented B Auxiliary Augmented
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
