Leading Whole Tone scale
Six whole-tone degrees climb to a natural seventh here, which is the entire idea, since the whole tone scale's defining weakness is having no leading tone at all.
- Used for
- Jazz and cinematic writing.
- Formula
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Steps W W W W W H H Semitones 2-2-2-2-2-1-1 Degrees 1 2 3 ♯4 ♯5 ♯6 7 - Relationships
- Rotating it onto other degrees reaches Locrian Major and Neapolitan Major, both of which share its seven pitches exactly.
Leading Whole Tone in all 12 keys
Root spelling
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- D D Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- E E Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- F F Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- G G Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- A A Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
- B B Leading Whole Tone scale piano guitar
