Whole Tone Exercises.

C-0 and C-1

According to definition by Google A.I. :

“A whole tone scale is used to create a dreamy, ambiguous, or surreal sound in music, and is often employed for a few specific purposes: it can suggest a flashback or dream, create tension over a dominant 7th chord, or establish a sense of floating. It is particularly common in impressionist classical music and modern jazz.”

Hmm, sounds interesting.

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There are only two whole tone scales. Yes, really.

Review - Q.: “How may tones are there in music?”

A.: “There are twelve. C-Db-D-Eb-E-F-F#-G-Ab-A-Bb-B.”

A whole note scale truly is a weird scale. First of all, it’s only six notes, opposed to the standard seven notes used in most scales and modes. Since there are twelve tones or notes in music, and there are only two whole note scales, this means that both scales (C-0 and C-1), have six notes in each scales.

The “C-0” whole tone scale starts at “C” and literally goes one whole step to D, then to E then to F#, G and A#. (C-D-E-F#-G#-A#).

The “C-1” whole tone scale follows the same idea, except that it starts on “C#”. (C#-D#-F-G-A-B).

Any one of these twelve notes can be thought of as the root for its scale.