There are five major and five minor pentatonic scales, for 10 in total. If using the scales to play guitar, there are five common patterns on the neck.
Pentatonic scales contain 5 notes, the same way a pentagon has 5 sides.
There are 330 possible 5 note permutations derived from the chromatic scale.
A scale with five tones is called a pentatonic scale; there are various types of pentatonic scales but the most obvious pentatonic scales can be found by playing just the black keys on the way up or down on the piano.
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Yes although it is used all around the world but sounds chinese
Pentatonic scales contain 5 notes, the same way a pentagon has 5 sides.
That is a misconception. Just as you can have a major scale that starts on any of the 12 tones, you can have pentatonic scales starting on any tone as well. It is the spacing and the number of notes that make a scale pentatonic. Incidentally, you can have a pentatonic melody with standard (non-pentatonic) harmonies accompanying it.
There are 330 possible 5 note permutations derived from the chromatic scale.
A scale with five tones is called a pentatonic scale; there are various types of pentatonic scales but the most obvious pentatonic scales can be found by playing just the black keys on the way up or down on the piano.
The pentatonic scale.
A Minor and a Major chords.
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Mostly major pentatonic. But they used blues scales too.
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Pentatonic scales consist of five notes, and are mostly used for soloing, as the five notes tend to not clash with the chord progression.
The pentatonic scale consists of notes that don't tend to clash or sound bad against the most chords.
Coldplay generally use the more "emotional" full major and minor scales. If you're hoping to jam along with their songs you still can, as the pentatonic scales are derived from the majors and minors, so for example if the song is in E minor you can just play in E minor pentatonic. Hope that helped!