F Whole Tone Scale — Banjolele
The F Whole Tone pattern on GCEA strings — see it, hear it, drill it.
The F Whole Tone scale has 6 notes per octave and belongs to the symmetric family. Here it is mapped onto the Banjolele's GCEA strings, position by position, with the root highlighted so the pattern anchors to F wherever you play 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.
Reentrant tuning means the top string of the chart is not the lowest note — the maps below follow the Banjolele as it actually sounds, not a borrowed guitar chart.
Play each position slowly against the audio until the shape and the sound lock together, then take it to the progressions in F to use it over real changes.