Today, I chose the following quest from “Quest Logs” Level 5 :

  • Whole-Tone Hero: Write a piece whose melody uses only the whole-tone scale. For the ‘easy mode’ version of this, use only the black keys of the keyboard to write the melody.

A whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole tone. (From Wikipedia)
The scale looks like this:

and it sounds like this:

 

This scale has been used in different kinds of music with different genres, like that magical sound effect to classical and jazz tunes. In the past, I used this scale in the beginning of a soundtrack called “Inner Yard” for Bunker – The Underground Game.

So what happens if I make a song with just whole tone scale? That’s what I decided to do today. I also try to make it even more fun by using 16-bit style sounds for this track.

And here’s the outcome!

Does it sound magical? Let me know what you think!