Guitar Scale Logic
B Whole Tone Guitar Scale in Whole Step Down
Whole Tone scale notes, fretboard positions and guitar tabs for Whole Step Down.
Scale Tablature
Position 1
D|------------------------1--3--| A|------------------2--4--------| F|---------0--2--4--------------| C|---1--3-----------------------| G|4-----------------------------| D|------------------------------|
Pattern shows scale notes in 0-4 frets for position 1.
Theory & Context
Why This Shape Works
B Whole Tone in Whole Step Down tuning puts the notes B, C#, D#, F, G, A under your fingers in a layout that feels dreamy, ambiguous and slippery. Whole step down keeps intervals familiar but lowers the pitch enough to change the instrument response, making bends, vibrato and heavy rhythm phrasing feel noticeably different. On this page you can switch between all visible notes or five smaller positions, study a pre-rendered tab pattern for each zone and match the sound against chords that stay inside the scale. Because the interval formula is 1 2 3 #4 #5 b7, every diagram here is generated from exact semitone math instead of guessed text. Start with Position 1 to lock in the tonic, then connect Positions 2 and 3 so you can move into riffs, lead fills and improvised phrases without losing the key center.
Whole Tone sounds dreamy, ambiguous and slippery and is especially useful for outside runs, tension before resolution and impressionistic harmony. Whole Step Down feels lower, wider and more elastic under the fingers.
Use short bursts because the symmetry removes a strong tonal center quickly. In Whole Step Down, it gives normal fingering a bigger, deeper voice.
- B
- C#
- D#
- F
- G
- A
Suggested Chords
Works Well With This Scale
Chord options generated from the same note pool.
- Baugaugmented
- C#augaugmented
- D#augaugmented
- Faugaugmented
- Gaugaugmented
- Aaugaugmented