pentatonic

Using the major pentatonic scale is an easy way out of this problem.

No, a pentatonic scale and it should be like the Residents.

Using the pentatonic scale is a good way for children to make up their own tunes.

"The first three of a pentatonic scale, five tones in all."

Hymns and other religious music sometimes use the pentatonic scale.

An easy way to find such a pentatonic scale is by using all the black notes of a keyboard.

It usually has five or six strings and pentatonic tuning.

There are three minor pentatonic scales found in any major key/scale.

It also has pentatonic scales, but they are not discussed in this article.

It has 16 strings and is tuned to a pentatonic scale.

The melody is pentatonic, and uses only four notes of the scale.

However, the melodies were often written according to the traditional Japanese pentatonic scale.

Because of their simplicity, pentatonic scales are often used to introduce children to music.

In Scottish music, the pentatonic scale is very common.

It is thus that the pentatonic scale came to be used as a sort of stepping stone (9-10).

But Western tunes had to be pentatonic - either originally or by adaptation.

In this movement, Ravel takes advantage of the pentatonic scale.

The minor pentatonic scale is often used in blues improvisation.

Examples 1, 2 and 3 are my favourite arrangements of the A pentatonic major.

The instrument is normally tuned to the minor pentatonic scale.

Central Asian music most often uses the pentatonic scale.

One might say that Chinese music was not truly pentatonic in the beginning, but became so because of standardisation.

Jazz music commonly uses both the major and the minor pentatonic scales.

Traditional (folk) Tatar music is based on the pentatonic scale.

The use of pentatonic scales in Africa probably goes back thousands of years.