A Whole Tone on Guitar

A Whole Tone runs 6 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's E–A–D–G–B–E fretboard with every A marked, because what a player needs mid-number is not the pattern but where the root is when the harmony moves under it.

Weightless and dreamlike — six equal whole steps with no leading tone, so nothing pulls anywhere. Blurry, floating, and faintly unsettling, like a dream sequence.

Heard in: Impressionist piano (Debussy's "Voiles"), Thelonious Monk's runs, dream-sequence film cues, and the augmented and 7#5 chords it fits in jazz.

Scale work in the armonía is for the passing figure that joins one chord to the next — a few notes at the seam of a change, played by one member while the other keeps the pattern intact.

Take it slowly against the playback until the geometry stops being geometry, then put it under a number in A and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.