Yes although it is used all around the world but sounds chinese
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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.
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.
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.
The pentatonic scale.
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.
Mostly major pentatonic. But they used blues scales too.
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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.
E minor pentatonic scale
syncopations modal scales and pentatonic scales often in folk music.
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.
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!
The Chinese pentatonic scale I believe is roughly three or four thousand years old.
A Minor and a Major chords.
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