A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave.
Any pentatonic scale contains 5 notes. "Penta" is a prefix meaning 5.
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.
Pentatonic scales contain 5 notes, the same way a pentagon has 5 sides.
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.
There are 330 possible 5 note permutations derived from the chromatic scale.
A pentatonic scale has five notes per octave.
Any pentatonic scale contains 5 notes. "Penta" is a prefix meaning 5.
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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.
Pentatonic scales contain 5 notes, the same way a pentagon has 5 sides.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
There are 330 possible 5 note permutations derived from the chromatic scale.
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.