Chord Colors

E♭ Prometheus scale

About the E flat Prometheus scale

E flat Prometheus is used for impressionist and mystical concert music. Think of it as the mystic chord of Scriabin turned into a scale, a raised fourth with no fifth. It is E Whole Tone with the sixth raised.

Its notes are E, F, G, A, C, and C. The formula is W W W 1½ H W.

Also called Mystic Scale and Mystic Chord.

Learn more about the E♭ Prometheus scale

Two of the notes in E Prometheus are black keys, E and C. Even so, the raised fourth is the white key A. Ascending through this mode, four white keys fall in a row.

Notes and intervals

1EbE♭Root
2FFMajor 2nd
3GGMajor 3rd
4AAAugmented 4th
5CCMajor 6th
6C#C♯Augmented 6th
StepsW W W 1½ H W
Semitones2-2-2-3-1-2
Degrees1 2 3 4 6 6

Shapes

Chromatic

CC♯D♭DD♯E♭EFF♯G♭GG♯A♭AA♯B♭B

Circle of Fifths

CGDAEBF♯G♭C♯D♭G♯A♭D♯E♭A♯B♭F

Related scales

Prometheus in other keys

Modes

The same notes, starting on a different note.

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Eb Prometheus scale on piano shown as colored note dots
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