ALTERED SCALE SOLOING

The Whole-Tone is a hexatonic scale, meaning that it has only six notes per octave (the best known hexatonic scale is the Blues scale, which adds the b 5 to the Minor Pentatonic). The name of the scale explains exactly what it is – a series of pitches each a whole tone (two frets) apart.

This scale is often associated with the classical composer Claude Debussy, who used it in two famous pieces of music found in Préludes, his first book of piano. In jazz, the pianist Thelonious Monk was known for incorporating Whole-Tone runs in his solos. Check out how it sounds