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.
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave.
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.
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It contains 7 distinct pitches, plus the tonic is often repeated at the octave.
Any pentatonic scale contains 5 notes. "Penta" is a prefix meaning 5.
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave.
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.
A pentatonic scale has five notes per octave.
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It contains 7 distinct pitches, plus the tonic is often repeated at the octave.
Any pentatonic scale contains 5 notes. "Penta" is a prefix meaning 5.
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.
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In a diatonic scale, there are eight notes in an octave.
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.
Pentatonic scales contain 5 notes, the same way a pentagon has 5 sides.
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).