Pentatonic scales are extremely common in a variety of musical cultures, such as traditional Japanese, but because of their simplicity, they’re also used a lot to construct memorable melodies in pop ...

Step 3: That’s too many notes, so we need to remove a couple to produce an F minor pentatonic, or five-note scale. We do this by removing the 2nd and 6th degrees of the natural minor scale. So we get ...

Flex your piano fingers with these 7 easiest Debussy ... Debussy is best known for his usage of non-traditional scales like pentatonic scales and whole tone scales which had been out of the ...

McCoy's approach, his strategy, his solution, was to alter his playing so that the harmony he played was based on “perfect" intervals-4ths and 5ths-and yes, in this most sophisticated of musics, the ...

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. At the World Science Festival in June, Bobby McFerrin did this ...