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Introducing the pentatonic scale: a five-note scale with all of these amazing qualities! Imagine you’re improvising and every note played fits perfectly with all the others. Imagine a scale where every note sounds pleasant, where there is no dissonance and no risk of playing anything that sounds wrong. Return from The Pentatonic Scale to Piano Theory.What is a pentatonic scale in music? Learn how to play the pentatonic scale on the piano. The next scale we're going to learn is the minor pentatonic scale. One of my favorite is "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder. The beginning of Oh Susana is a good example. Many melodies are made with the pentatonic scale. That if you'll press on the black keys starting from F# be playing the F# major pentatonic which sounds rather chinese in the under statement. Here's a list of all twelve pentatonics according to the circle of fifths.Ĭlick here for a free piano chord chart of That's why it is handy to us in improvisation (We'll talk about it in the future). That's maybe why the Chinese people have been using this scale forever and still do.Įach and every note of the scale is in harmony.

The pentatonic however sounds always stable. The semitones in the major scale have a very activeįunction in the scale leading to the root or the third note of the scale. Let's have a look at C major pentatonic (The minor one will come later).Ĭ pentatonic is made out of these notes: C, D, E, G, A, C which are the 1st,2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th degrees of theĪs a matter of fact one can say that the pentatonic is a major scale with out semi tones.

The big difference between the pentatonic and the major and minor scale is that the pentatonic contains no semitones.

The scale includes five notes only within an octave unlike the major and minor scales that have seven notes within an octave. The word "pentatonic" comes from the Greek word pente meaning five and tonic meaning tone. The pentatonic existed long before the major and minor scale were used in different cultures in the world. Your browser does not support the audio element.