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  2. Pentatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    Rock guitar solo almost all over B minor pentatonic Jazz music commonly uses both the major and the minor pentatonic scales. Pentatonic scales are useful for improvisers in modern jazz, pop, and rock contexts because they work well over several chords diatonic to the same key, often better than the parent scale.

  3. A minor - Wikipedia

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    The A harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are: ... Fantasia for Solo Violin No. 12; Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oboe Concerto; Antonio Vivaldi. Concerto for violin, ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Allegro barbaro (Bartók) - Wikipedia

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    The opening melody of Allegro barbaro is largely pentatonic (the first 22 notes of the melody use a cell that consists only of a whole tone and a minor third, the building block of the pentatonic scale). [5] Indeed, the opening melody uses a Phrygian mode subset. [5] Like many of Bartók's compositions, this piece circles around a tonal pitch.

  6. Jazz scale - Wikipedia

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    Two pentatonic scales common to jazz are the major pentatonic scale and the minor pentatonic scale. They are both modes of one another. The major pentatonic scale begins with a major scale and omits the fourth and the seventh scale degrees. The minor pentatonic scale uses the same notes as the major pentatonic scale, but begins on the sixth ...

  7. 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.

  8. Lenny (instrumental) - Wikipedia

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    It is played very slowly and freely, with Vaughan alternating between jazz-inflected chords and solo runs. The main chord featured in the song is a movable major 6th chord to which Vaughan applies moderate vibrato with the tremolo bar. The solos incorporate the E major scale, the E minor pentatonic scale, and the E Minor blues scale.

  9. File:A minor pentatonic scale.svg - Wikipedia

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