Leading Whole Tone scale on guitar

The leading whole tone scale is the whole tone scale with a major seventh added, so it leads back to the root.

Notes in A	A B C# D# E# G G#
Formula	1 2 3 #4 #5 #6 7
Steps	W W W W W H H (W whole step, H half step)
Note count	7
Style in the app	Special, scale "Leading whole tone"

A Leading Whole Tone on the first 15 frets in standard tuning, thin e string on top. Highlighted circles mark the root, A.

About the Leading Whole Tone scale

The notes are root, 2nd, 3rd, raised 4th, raised 5th, flat 7th and 7th.

The major 7th adds a half step under the root, so the scale gets a home note that the plain whole tone scale lacks.

Use it over an augmented chord that resolves to the root.

Degree	Interval	Semitones	In A
1	Root	0	A
2	Major 2nd	2	B
3	Major 3rd	4	C#
#4	Tritone	6	D#
#5	Minor 6th	8	E#
#6	Minor 7th	10	G
7	Major 7th	11	G#

Stack every other note of the scale and you get one chord on each note. These chords sound at home with the scale, so they make good progressions.

Start the A Leading Whole Tone scale on another of its notes and you get these scales: