whole step AmE
whole tone BrE

Then, without comment, he returned to his side, two whole steps, and started to dress.

This sounds a major second (tone, or whole step) lower than written.

They are based on a series of alternating half steps and whole steps.

It is also notable that the song was always performed live a whole step higher than the album version.

Bruce seized the opportunity and advanced a whole step.

Indeed, the terms whole step and half step are commonly used as interval names.

Therefore, a major scale may be seen as two identical tetrachords separated by a whole step.

The following elements produce 36 combinations when joined by whole step:

The strings of the guitar are tuned two whole steps lower than standard tuning.

It is in the key of F, pitched a whole step above the alto saxophone.

"Other tenors used the alternate version Donizetti wrote, taken one whole step down."

Each tetrachord consists of two whole steps followed by a half step:

In the present context, a "step" is a melodic interval of a half or whole step.

You showed you were loath to get in, when you hesitated for two whole steps.

Well, fair enough-fusion had come available at just the right time to make High Flyer a whole step up, and it showed.

Townshend's guitars were tuned down a whole step for the recording.

Kamelot - dropping the lowest string a whole step on some songs.

Once a whole step was missing.

They are also the result of superimposing two diminished seventh chords set either half a step or a whole step from each other.

A descending whole step, periodically augmented upward, supports the stage's more somnolent episodes.

Harmonics starting three octaves above the fundamental pitch are about a whole step apart, making a useful variety of notes possible.

In Simandl's system, first position (below thumb position) encompasses only a whole step.

The difference between the major and minor scales is found in the distribution of whole steps and half steps above a given starting point.

Tuned down a whole step.

The musician has the freedom to alter the pitch of individual courses from a quarter to a whole step by adjusting metal levers.

But the whole tone has to be moved from the past to the future.

When they realize who I am, the whole tone changes.

I do think this administration has raised the whole tone of American life.

At that point his whole tone towards Eve had changed.

A lawyer's going to change the whole tone of this interview, Ron.

That set the whole tone for the for the second half.

He could produce sixteen clearly different sounds within a whole tone.

"But our whole tone is to be a visible deterrent."

But then the whole tone of the opening section would have given him intense pleasure.

The whole tone of the movie needed to be ratcheted up a note or two higher.

The whole tone of our meeting with management was very negative and unproductive.

Another method is to play in the key one whole tone above that of the harmonica.

"Personalizing it changes the whole tone of the piece," she said.

They were within reach, just a clawing moment away from turning the whole tone of this series around.

The parallel is formed by raising the fifth a whole tone.

"The whole tone of the hospitals in some places has become much more restrictive and repressed."

The whole tone scale dominates much of Debussy's late music.

There are only two combinations possible for a whole tone scale:

His use of the whole tone scale on two resonance bodies has become a widely common standard.

The song, even musically, and with the video we already shot, it sets up the whole tone of the record.

When Friday arrives, the whole tone and direction of camp begins to shift.

In this octave, that is almost a whole tone.

It will raise the whole tone of the war."

The frequencies were initially designed with a ratio of 21/19, which is slightly less than a whole tone.

Chromatic, whole tone, major and minor scales are used in this movement.