A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major...
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minor scale) The Arabic scales The Hungarian minor scale The Byzantine music scales (called echoi) The Persian scale Scales such as the pentatonic scale may...
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Dorian mode or the minor pentatonic scale (see other minor scales below). A natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode) is a diatonic scale that is built by starting...
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existing scale, notably the flat fifth addition to the minor pentatonic scale. However, the heptatonic blues scale can be considered a major scale with altered...
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Jazz (section Pentatonic scales)
the scale generated by beginning on the fifth step of a pentatonic scale as the V pentatonic scale. Levine points out that the V pentatonic scale works...
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The in scale (also known as the Sakura pentatonic scale due to its use in the well-known folk song Sakura Sakura) is one of two pentatonic scales commonly...
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often used on V7♯5 chords. Two pentatonic scales common to jazz are the major pentatonic scale and the minor pentatonic scale. They are both modes of one...
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practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while...
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Mode (music) (redirect from Modal scale)
get pentatonic scale: Scales that are called “harmonic” contain all seven types of seventh chords[citation needed] (like the harmonic major scale and...
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it pentatonic. Its spelling is therefore 1 b2 4 b5 b7. It is used in traditional Japanese music for the koto. It is a mode of the Hirajōshi scale. Taaffe...
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