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G♭ Whole Tone scale

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About the G flat Whole Tone scale

G flat Whole Tone is a scale of nothing but whole steps, floating with no clear home. It's used for dream sequences, impressionist music and solos over dominant chords.

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Positions

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.

Position 1open
Position 2fr 2
Position 3fr 4
Position 4fr 6
Position 5fr 8
Position 6fr 10

Notes and intervals

1 G flat Root
2 A flat Major 2nd
3 B flat Major 3rd
4 C Augmented 4th
5 D Minor 6th
6 F flat Minor 7th

Shapes

Chromatic

C C♯ D♭ D D♯ E♭ E F F♯ G♭ G G♯ A♭ A A♯ B♭ B

Circle of Fifths

C G D A E B F♯ G♭ C♯ D♭ G♯ A♭ D♯ E♭ A♯ B♭ F

Related scales

Whole Tone in other keys

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