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 — from the major and minor scales through the pentatonic, blues, modal, and exotic sets — each with diagrams, fingerings, audio, and notation.