hexatonic scale

in music and music theory, a hexatonic scale is a scale with six pitches or notes


per octave. Famous examples include the whole tone scale, C D E F(sharp)


G(sharp) A(sharp) C; the augmented scale, C D(sharp) E G A(flat) B C; the


Prometheus scale, C D E F(sharp) A B(flat) C; and what some jazz theorists call the


"blues scale", C E(flat) F F(sharp) G B(flat) C