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Fig. 1 · Db harmonic major · first 12 frets

ukulele scale

D♭ harmonic major

D♭1E♭2F3G♭4A♭5B♭♭♭6C7

Major with a flattened sixth: the mirror of harmonic minor, and the reason a major key can borrow a minor subdominant.

The same sounds spelled from the other side are C♯ harmonic major.

on guitaron piano

Written out

Fig. 2 · Db harmonic 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♭WFHG♭WA♭HB♭♭W+HCHD♭

What is true of it

D♭ harmonic major is D♭, E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭♭ and C, and back to D♭.

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

Written correctly it needs 6 alterations, B♭♭ 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♭ major 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.

Chords made only of these notes

CdimdiminishedD♭majorD♭augaugmentedD♭maj7major seventhE♭dimdiminishedE♭m7♭5half-diminished seventhFmajorFmminor

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

Other scales on D♭

D♭ majormajorD♭ natural minorminorD♭ harmonic minorminorD♭ melodic minorminor

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