What are the characteristics of the modes of Chinese, Japanese and Korean folk music?

Japanese national mode: 3467 belongs to four-tone mode, which is basically common.

But the patterns of elegant music and pop music are different.

Japanese yarraa

Lu (scale) (Do, Re, Mi, So, La),

Law (scale) (So, La, Do, Re, mi; Re、Mi、So、la、Do)

Vulgar music

Folk songs (scales)

(Re、Mi、So、La、Do； La、Do、Re、Mi、So)

Also belongs to this pentatonic scale.

(If you only talk about scales, there is only one for each! )

However, apart from this pentatonic scale with no semitone,

There are also two pentatonic scales with semitones in Japanese pop music.

they are

Metropards (including Mi, Fa, La, Si, do; Si、Do、Mi、Fa、La； La, Si, Do, Mi and Fa) and

Ryukyu scale (including Do, Mi, Fa, So, si; Fa、So、Si、Do、Mi； Mi, Fa, Si and Do).

(There should be three pentatonic steps with semitones:

Yale rhythm:12b3456b71= 67123 # 456

Metric scale:12b345b 6b71= 67123456.

Ryukyu scale:1b2b345b6b71= 34567123.

Korean national model: basically learn from China and Japanese national model.

In fact, the main body of Japanese and Korean music is still based on Chinese folk music, and then each develops its own genre.