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A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave.

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How many notes is the pentatonic scale used in ancient Chinese compositions made up of?

A pentatonic scale has five notes per octave.


How many notes are in A minor pentatonic scale?

Any pentatonic scale contains 5 notes. "Penta" is a prefix meaning 5.


How many notes are used in the pentatonic scale?

5


What the difference between an whole tone scale and a pentatonic scale?

One difference between a whole tone scale and a pentatonic scale is that a whole tone scale has 6 notes per octave while a pentatonic scale has 5 notes per octave. Another major difference is that a whole tone scale has all adjacent notes a whole step apart, while a pentatonic scale does not consist entirely of whole steps, and since a pentatonic scale is only defined as a scale with 5 notes per octave, there are many pentatonic scales that are possible.


How many different notes make up the pentatonic scale?

Pentatonic scales contain 5 notes, the same way a pentagon has 5 sides.


How many pitches per octave does the pentatonic scale have?

Five. "Penta" is a prefix meaning "five." A pentatonic is a scale with five notes, the way a pentagon is a shape with five sides.


How many notes are the in the pentatonic scales?

There are 7 notes in a heptatonic scale. Heptatonic scales are the major and all minor scales including the 7 diatonic scales which are those consisting of 5 whole steps and 2 half steps separated by either 2 or 3 whole steps.


How many notes in a music scale?

It depends on the scale in question: * The diatonic scale (seven notes) * The melodic and harmonic minor scales (seven notes) * The chromatic scale (twelve notes) * The whole tone scale (six notes) * The pentatonic scale (five notes) * The octatonic or diminished scales (eight notes) Then of course there are the Indian Swara scales which have varying numbers of notes too.


How many black keys are played in a major g scale on a Piano?

The diatonic scale that is played mostly on the black keys is F# major (also known enharmonically as Gb Major). The scale that is played only on black keys is the five note F# pentatonic scale. (AKA Gb pentatonic scale).


Where does the pentatonic scale come from?

This scale is widely used across many cultures, so it probably sounds 'more natural' to humans. The heptatonic scale is the common alternative. There is quite a nice article under pentatonic in Wikipedia.org.


How many pentatonic scales are?

There are 330 possible 5 note permutations derived from the chromatic scale.


What scales are used in hangar 18 by megadeth?

Hangar 18 uses many dark sounding scales such as: aeolian mode(natural minor), phrygian mode and the locrian mode. How ever, Dave Mustaine plays licks from minor pentatonic scale with added chromatic notes. Marty Friedman uses many notes outside of scales witch creates an exotic sound. Uh, Marty solo's way outside any scale and combines different licks to create his sound, making it nearly impossible to track the exact scale combo. but Dave pretty much sticks to the Minor Pentatonic.