C# Piano Scales
All C# piano scales: click any card for full diagrams, fingerings, audio, and notation.
C♯ is the black key just above C. As a major key it carries seven sharps, so the same sounds are very often written as its enharmonic twin, D♭ major (five flats), which reads far more easily. Every scale and mode starting on C# is listed below: major and minor through pentatonic, blues, modal, and exotic sets, each with diagrams, fingerings, audio, and notation.
C# Major Scale
C# Minor Scale
C# Major Pentatonic Scale
C# Minor Pentatonic Scale
C# Harmonic Minor Scale
C# Melodic Minor Scale
C# Major Blues Scale
C# Minor Blues Scale
C# Altered Scale
C# Chromatic Scale
C# Altered Scale
C# Phrygian Dominant Scale
C# Locrian Sharp 2 Scale
C# Lydian Dominant Scale
C# Whole Tone Scale
C# Whole-Half Diminished Scale
C# Half-Whole Diminished Scale
C# Major Bebop Scale
C# Dominant Bebop Scale
C# Minor Bebop Scale
C# Harmonic Major Scale
C# Double Harmonic Scale
C# Hungarian Minor Scale
C# Major b6 Pentatonic Scale
C# Minor 6 Pentatonic Scale