What is a pentatonic scale?

Palace, business, horn, sign, feather. According to the order of five degrees, from palace yin to lingering sound, the order is: palace-Shang-Jiao-Zheng-Yu; If arranged in pitch order, it is: 1 2 3 5 6 Gong Shang Jiao Qian (zhǐ) feather. "Harmony, division, b, tardiness and fairness" were used in the Tang Dynasty.

Five-tone mode widely exists in ancient and folk music in China, and on this basis, it forms various changes of China's national modes and a complete musical theoretical system. Therefore, although it can be seen in the traditional music of many countries and regions, it is often called "China mode" or "national mode". The pentatonic style needs not only the natural conditions of the singer, but also the singing skills created by long-term training and exercise.

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Five-tone performance

The seven tones in natural major are next to each other, with a second interval between each tone and no "gap" in the middle; Its fingering is connected by the three-tone group and the four-tone group through the thumb turn.

In the pentatonic scale, the interval between two pairs of notes, that is, to the angle of signing and to the palace feather, is three degrees, which means that there is a distance to "cross" when playing these two pairs of notes; Its fingering consists of a three-tone group and a two-tone group, which are connected after crossing two relatively long intervals: angle to sign and feather to palace.

These characteristics are not only the difference between pentatonic scale and natural major, harmony minor and melody minor, but also the focus and difficulty of taking pentatonic scale as basic practice.

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