C Whole toneScale
Formula
C Whole tone on the chromatic circle
C Whole tone is the 1st mode of the Whole tone family. Pick another note on the circle to open the scale that starts there.
C Whole tone across the fretboard
Every note of the scale up to the 16th fret, named by its degree. The root is a ring. Step through the five CAGED positions one at a time in the scale library.
Where C Whole tone fits
Dreamy and unresolved: impressionist music, dream sequences in film and TV, and jazz over 7♯5 chords.
Whole tone scale in every key
C Whole tone scale questions
What notes are in the C Whole tone scale?
C D E F♯ G♯ B♭. As degrees from the root: 1 2 3 ♯4 ♯5 ♭7.
What is the C Whole tone scale formula?
1 2 3 ♯4 ♯5 ♭7, or in steps between the notes, W W W W W W (W is a whole step of two frets, H a half step of one fret, 1½ three frets).
How do you play the C Whole tone scale on guitar?
This page draws every note of C Whole tone up to the 16th fret, each named by its degree with the root as a ring. To learn it a few frets at a time, open it in the scale library and step through its five CAGED positions, from the C shape to the A shape to the G shape to the E shape to the D shape.
When is the C Whole tone scale used?
Dreamy and unresolved: impressionist music, dream sequences in film and TV, and jazz over 7♯5 chords.