Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale
Dropping the flat seventh from a whole tone scale rather than the second gives this version, five notes climbing in unbroken whole steps from the root.
- Used for
- Impressionist textures and film scoring.
- Formula
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Steps W W W W 4 semitones Semitones 2-2-2-2-4 Degrees 1 2 3 ♯4 ♯5 - Relationships
- It is the fourth mode of the 7b13 Pentatonic scale.
- Every rotation of it lands on another whole tone pentatonic, since the parent scale has no degree distinguishable from any other.
Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) in all 12 keys
Root spelling
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- D D Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- E E Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- F F Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- G G Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- A A Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
- B B Whole Tone Pentatonic (alt) scale piano guitar
