Synthetic scale
Whole tone spacing accounts for five of these six notes, and the sixth is a major seventh grafted on top, which is the entire construction and the reason the catalog calls the scale synthetic.
- Used for
- Experimental and cinematic writing.
- Formula
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Steps W W W W 1½ H Semitones 2-2-2-2-3-1 Degrees 1 2 3 ♯4 ♭6 7 - Relationships
- It is the sixth mode of the Prometheus scale.
- The scale is a rotation of Prometheus, sharing all six pitches with it from a different starting point, so two collections that sound unrelated turn out to be one.
Synthetic in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Synthetic scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Synthetic scale piano guitar
- D D Synthetic scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Synthetic scale piano guitar
- E E Synthetic scale piano guitar
- F F Synthetic scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Synthetic scale piano guitar
- G G Synthetic scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Synthetic scale piano guitar
- A A Synthetic scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Synthetic scale piano guitar
- B B Synthetic scale piano guitar
