Scale Confusion


hotbeefinjection
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hotbeefinjection
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01/31/2002 6:15 pm
Ok... so im a little confused about scales. I read about the pentatonic scale having 8 notes... well from my observations it seems to have 12 notes. Can somebody help me out???
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trebledamage
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trebledamage
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01/31/2002 9:07 pm
The Pentatonic scale has five notes. ('Penta' means 5) Take C Major Pentatonic scale as an example. The notes of that scale are (C, D, E, G, A). Staying with C Major as my example, the C Major scale has 7 notes. (C, D, E, F, G, A, B). As for 12 note scales, the chromatic scale has 12 notes in it. Starting on C: (C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/Ab, A, A#/Bb, B).
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lalimacefolle
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01/31/2002 10:13 pm
The 12 notes you say are the twelve TONES of the scale you can play:
-5--8-----
-5--8-----
-5--7-----
-5--7------
-5--7-------
-5--8-------
But there are only 5 notes, but many more tones!!
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trebledamage
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02/01/2002 6:19 am
In other words, the same five tones repeat themselves over and over as you move up the scale pattern up and down the fret board
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hotbeefinjection
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02/02/2002 3:26 pm
Ok thanks. So that helps clear up some of the confusion. Going through the A min pentatonic, there are 12 tones, not notes... only 5 of those tones are notes. Thanks for the help.

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