Progression

Melodic Progression

Diatonic: (within the scale, notes are playing in the key of the piece)

• Example 1 and Example 2 and Example 3 all from Johann Sebastian Bach: “The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major “

Chromatic: (melodies where there are predominance of notes that are a semi-tone (half-step) apart

• Johann Sebastian Bach: "Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue" in D minor, BWV 903
• Aram Khatchaturian: Gayne Suite No. 1, "Sabre Dance"
• Richard Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde", Prelude

Whole-Tones are notes made entirely of whole-steps and has only six notes.

The pattern for a whole-tone scale is easy to remember because it consists only of whole-steps (W):

W-W-W-W-W-W

A whole-tone scale starting on D-flat:

Non-Diatonic / Non-Harmonic Tones: Notes of a melody that don't belong to a particular key, or notes not diatonically related to the key of the song.