the 'Dream Sequence' scale 🎶😴

Short edited by Rob Goorney

[surfdigby]

It's a great scale for giving a feeling of infinity, because the major third keeps it happy sounding, but there's no semitone taking it from the seventh into the octave, so it lacks that feeling of finality.

[vojtechbergmann]

My favourite song with this dream scale is dogs by pink floyd ❤

[dannomusic]

You just made me realize You Are the Sunshine of My Life has a whole tone part preceding the chorus.

[StingRayZzy]

Hi! Im an average viewer :) i love your shirt! And i also recently learned the whole tone scale in my piano lessons. Great video!

[darryldouglas]

Awesome! I haven’t been able to figure this one out. 😃

[nicktreleaven]

it's also the third easiest scale to improvise in on piano after C and Am IMO

[jamesxboxgaming]

You should do a video on space sounding scales

[ronmills]

The whole-tone scale was one of Monk's favorite spices.

[blackpanther]

Spacelab by Kraftwerk. If I'm not wrong (or if I heard it right), it's the scale in intro arpeggios.

[wrorchestra]

Isn't "Don Juan Triumphant" from Phantom of the Opera in whole tone scale?

[prodbyKamikaZ]

I would like to see what he has to say about the chords from can’t help falling in love by elvis

[Anaceguar]

David! I have a question thats been bugging me all my life and don’t even know how to phrase it correctly: musical themes we associate today with different topics, such this dream sequence, the west/cowboy soundtracks, spy music, ancient tribes music, etc.- were they born in hollywood (man made) or evolved from culture, or is it something in the key, chords and chord progression that assimilates to that theme?

[iloveaudiostuff]

I’m awaiting my PhD in Music arriving shortly from David Bennett University !!! Thanks for all the musical knowledge!!!

[joseluisblanco]

was that Tyffani Amber Thiessen? My crush when I was a child

[Aluenvey]

I use a hybrid of this and a synthetic scale I created that is made of two whole tone chromatic triads.

[shaheelkhandelwal]

Can we call it locrian dominant??? Is it same tho

[aparrotdies]

And which chords working with this scale? Maybe 7th chords?

[natehubbard]

debussy also used the whole tone scale a lot, for example Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

[willstout]

Small nitpick, but I’d prefer to read note name by note name (convention usually asks this as well), so going from F# to Ab and Bb is quite weird to me. I’d much prefer to read G# to A#

[davebennett]

How is that different from the pentatonic scale?