Songs that use the Whole Tone scale

David Bennett August 6, 2023
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Sometimes described as the "dream sequence" scale, or the "flash back" scale, the whole tone scale is exactly what it sounds like, a scale made wholey of tones. Transcriptions by David Hartley. Check out his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/davidhartley94 And, an extra special thanks goes to Peter Keller, Douglas Lind, Vidad Flowers, Ivan Pang, Waylon Fairbanks, Jon Dye, Austin Russell, Christopher Ryan, Toot & Paul Peijzel, the channel’s Patreon saints! 😇 SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/davidbennettpiano 🎹 0:00 Introduction 0:35 the "dream sequence" scale 1:03 Examples 1:54 Debussy vs. Tonality 3:18 Mozart's musical "joke" 4:03 there are only 2 unique whole tone scales 5:19 What if we harmonise the scale? 6:20 Robert Fripp 6:44 Stevie Wonder 7:29 Altered chords 10:03 100% whole tone keyboard outro