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Whole tone scale example

Whole tone scale example

A very well known example of a song that uses the whole tone scale is Stevie Wonder's You Are The Sunshine Of My Life. You'll hear it in the first 10 seconds of the intro with its distinctive sound. Another great example is Four in One by Thelonious Monk.

  1. What music uses the whole tone scale?
  2. What notes are in whole tone scale?
  3. How many whole tone scales are there?

What music uses the whole tone scale?

Claude Debussy, who had been influenced by Russians, along with other impressionist composers made extensive use of whole tone scales. Voiles, the second piece in Debussy's first book of Préludes, is almost entirely within one whole-tone scale.

What notes are in whole tone scale?

Whole Tone Scales

How many whole tone scales are there?

Unlike many scales that centre around key signatures, there are actually only two whole tone scales. This is because each note is separated by the interval of one whole step. Unlike your standard major and minor scales, it contains no semitone intervals. Db whole tone scale (C♯/D♭, D♯/E♭, F, G, A, B)

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