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Fig. 1 · D# major · first 12 frets

ukulele scale

D♯ major

D♯1E♯2F𝄪3G♯4A♯5B♯6C𝄪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 E♭ major.

on guitaron piano

Written out

Fig. 2 · D# 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

D♯WE♯WF𝄪HG♯WA♯WB♯WC𝄪HD♯

What is true of it

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

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

Written correctly it needs 9 alterations, F𝄪 and C𝄪 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, D♯ melodic minor differs from it by exactly one note.

Across the first twelve frets of the ukulele its notes fall in 30 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 seventhG♯majorG♯maj7major seventhA♯majorA♯7dominant seventh

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

Other scales on D♯

D♯ harmonic majormajorD♯ natural minorminorD♯ harmonic minorminorD♯ melodic minorminor

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