Pentatonic Scale

Five-note scale avoiding semitone clashes, found in musical traditions on every inhabited continent.

Core Principles & Analysis

• The major pentatonic matches the piano's five black keys starting from F-sharp.
• The minor pentatonic is the foundational scale of blues and rock guitar improvisation.
• Ancient Chinese theory derived its five tones (gong, shang, jue, zhi, yu) from stacked fifths.