Guitar Fills With C Whole Tone

C Whole Tone runs 6 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's EADGBE fretboard with every C marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under it.

Weightless and dreamlike — six equal whole steps with no leading tone, so nothing pulls anywhere. Blurry, floating, and faintly unsettling, like a dream sequence.

Heard in: Impressionist piano (Debussy's "Voiles"), Thelonious Monk's runs, dream-sequence film cues, and the augmented and 7#5 chords it fits in jazz.

A guitar fill is a flatpicked line, and it lives closest to the vocal melody of any chair in the arrangement — the scale is what fills the bar where the melody is only a long note.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in C and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.