E Whole Tone — Dobro

E Whole Tone runs 6 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's GBDGBD neck with every E marked, because what you need mid-break is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under you.

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.

A dobro break is slid, not fretted: the bar travels to each note, so a scale here is a list of places the bar may stop on the way — and on open-G strings, the stops that ring against an open string are the ones the melody keeps coming back to.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a tune in E and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.