Prometheus Neapolitan scale
Flattening the second of the Prometheus scale gives this variant, and the change costs the collection much of its whole-tone character, since the flat second becomes a second note falling outside that parent.
- Used for
- Impressionist and experimental writing.
- Formula
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Steps H 1½ W 1½ H W Semitones 1-3-2-3-1-2 Degrees 1 ♭2 3 ♯4 6 ♯6 - Relationships
- It is the fourth mode of the Blues Diminished scale.
- Rotating it onto the raised fourth degree produces the Blues Diminished scale, an unlikely relative for an impressionist collection.
Prometheus Neapolitan in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- D D Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- E E Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- F F Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- G G Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- A A Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
- B B Prometheus Neapolitan scale piano guitar
