0 a scale based on five notes, such as the one that uses only the black keys on a piano
1 a scale based on five notes, such as the one that uses only the black keys on a piano
The feel of this phrase is that the vocal is freely traversing the pentatonic scale without much regard for the underlying chord changes.
The hermit thrush uses a pentatonic scale, the canyon wren all twelve semitones.
In light of this, it seems more logical to define a step as a move between adjacent notes on the pentatonic scale.
Some music educators argue against the use of the pentatonic scale, for instance, for the limitations it might place upon children's compositional and listening skills.
An example of such a pentatonic scale is the major scale with the fourth and seventh notes missing.
The khene uses a pentatonic scale in one of two modes ("thang sun" and "thang yao"), each mode having three possible keys.
The minor pentatonic scale replaces the 2nd scale degree with an augmented 4 followed by the fifth and is commonly known as a blues scale.
The major pentatonic scale begins with a major scale and omits the fourth and the seventh scale degrees.
