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- A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the heptatonic scale, which has seven notes per octave (such as the major...
- beginning on the fifth step of a pentatonic scale as the V pentatonic scale. Levine points out that the V pentatonic scale works for all three chords...
- Heian period, in practice ****anese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. In some instances, harmonic...
- 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...
- Western scale Hexatonic (6 notes per octave): common in Western folk music Pentatonic (5 notes per octave): the anhemitonic form (lacking semitones) is common...
- note" to an existing scale, notably the flat fifth addition to the minor pentatonic scale. However, the heptatonic blues scale can be considered a major scale...
- hemitonic[clarification needed] pentatonic scales might be called minor, the term is most commonly applied to the relative minor pentatonic scale, derived as a mode...
- with a left hand arpeggio in E major and a descending right hand E major pentatonic progression. The second quieter B section is in A major, starting with...
- Ricker, Ramon (1999-11-27). Pentatonic Scales for Jazz Improvisation. Alfred Music. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-4574-9410-9. Pentatonic scales, as used in jazz, are...
- Amharic: ትዝታ; English: memory, "nostalgia" or "longing") is one of the Pentatonic scales or Qañat of the Amhara ethnic group. The term tizita is distinctly...