About the E flat Diminished Whole-Half scale
E flat Diminished Whole-Half is the diminished scale written whole step first, the same symmetrical eight notes. It's used for jazz solos over diminished chords and suspenseful film music.
Learn morePositions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
8-position system
8 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 | E flat | Root |
| 2 | F | Major 2nd |
| 3 | G flat | Minor 3rd |
| 4 | A flat | Perfect 4th |
| 5 | A | Augmented 4th |
| 6 | C flat | Minor 6th |
| 7 | C | Major 6th |
| 8 | D | Major 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Diminished Whole-Half in other keys
C Diminished Whole-Half D flat Diminished Whole-Half D Diminished Whole-Half E Diminished Whole-Half F Diminished Whole-Half G flat Diminished Whole-Half G Diminished Whole-Half A flat Diminished Whole-Half A Diminished Whole-Half B flat Diminished Whole-Half B Diminished Whole-Half
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
