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  2. Pentatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    The first two phrases of the melody from Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" are based on the major pentatonic scale [1]. 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 scale and minor scale).

  3. List of musical scales and modes - Wikipedia

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    Minor: Usual Aeolian mode or natural minor scale: Aeolian on C. Play ... Minor pentatonic scale on A. Play ...

  4. Japanese musical scales - Wikipedia

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    While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. [1] In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic minor is virtually unused.

  5. Minor scale - Wikipedia

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    The hexatonic (6-note) blues scale is similar to the minor pentatonic scale and fits the above definition. However, the flat fifth is present as a passing tone along with the perfect fifth, and the scale is often played with microtonal mixing of the major and minor thirds – thus making it harder to classify as a "major" or "minor" scale.

  6. Japanese mode - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese mode is a pentatonic musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music.The intervals of the scale are major second, minor third, perfect fifth and minor sixth (such as the notes A, B, C, E, F and up to A ja:ヨナ抜き音階.), essentially a natural minor scale in Western music theory without the subdominant and subtonic, the same operation performed on the major scale to ...

  7. Jazz scale - Wikipedia

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    The minor pentatonic scale uses the same notes as the major pentatonic scale, but begins on the sixth scale degree of the corresponding major scale. In this nomenclature, minor is employed in the sense of relative key, as the diatonic A minor scale is the relative minor of the diatonic C major scale.

  8. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    blues minor pentatonic scale 角 ( jué ) mode Scales that are called "harmonic" contain all seven types of seventh chords [ citation needed ] (like the harmonic major scale and the harmonic minor scale).

  9. Blues scale - Wikipedia

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    The term blues scale refers to several different scales with differing numbers of pitches and related characteristics. A blues scale is often formed by the addition of an out-of-key "blue note" to an existing scale, notably the flat fifth addition to the minor pentatonic scale.