Generally speaking, dissonant intervals have ratios such as nine to eight for the whole step or seventeen to sixteen for the half step.
The whole tone scale has no half steps: each note in the 6-note scale is a whole step from the next.
Each of the six strings can be alternately tuned as low as a whole step lower and as much as a whole step higher without stressing the neck or the strings.
Professor Craig Wright: A-flat. Okay, I need, now, a whole step above A-flat. Hmm, nice and loud please, Edward?
Different effects are created when music is based on other scales. The whole tone scale has no half steps: each note in the 6-note scale is a whole step from the next.
And then at the end of the process I have another whole step from B-flat back to c, and that gets me back to my octave in that fashion.
