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Fig. 1 · A# major · first 12 frets

ukulele scale

A♯ major

A♯1B♯2C𝄪3D♯4E♯5F𝄪6G𝄪7

The seven-note scale everything else is measured against: two whole steps, a half, three whole steps, a half.

The same sounds spelled from the other side are B♭ major.

on guitaron piano

Written out

Fig. 2 · A# major, ascending

Every accidental is written in, rather than left to a key signature, so the letters can be read one at a time.

The step pattern

A♯WB♯WC𝄪HD♯WE♯WF𝄪WG𝄪HA♯

What is true of it

A♯ major is A♯, B♯, C𝄪, D♯, E♯, F𝄪 and G𝄪, and back to A♯.

Its steps are W – W – H – W – W – W – H, where W is a whole step and H a half.

Written correctly it needs 10 alterations, C𝄪, F𝄪 and G𝄪 among them. That is what the letters force, and it is also why nobody writes music in this key: the same notes spelled from the other side are easier to read.

On the same tonic, A♯ melodic minor differs from it by exactly one note.

Across the first twelve frets of the ukulele its notes fall in 31 places, which is what makes a scale a shape rather than a list.

It cannot be written as a key signature at all, because a signature has no room for a double accidental.

Chords made only of these notes

D♯majorD♯maj7major seventhA♯majorA♯maj7major seventh

Found by testing every chord in the catalogue against these 7 sounds, not chosen.

Other scales on A♯

A♯ harmonic majormajorA♯ natural minorminorA♯ harmonic minorminorA♯ melodic minorminor

C majC♯ majD♭ majD majD♯ majE♭ majE majF majall 374