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What is a minor pentatonic?

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Am Pentatonic= A C D E G A and repeats

minor pentatonic= root, 1.5, 1, 1, 1.5, octave

total of 5 out of the 7 notes in the minor scale, used to delete the semitones replacing them with 1.5 intervals

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