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Music 8 – Keyboards - Composition: Pentatonic song
The pentatonic scale consists of 5 notes. Based on your scale they are the 1, 2, 3, 5,
and 6 scale degrees or Do Re Mi Sol La; and any combination thereof.
From Wikipedia: A pentatonic scale is a musical scale or mode with five notes per octave in
contrast to a heptatonic (seven note) scale such as the major scale and minor scale. Pentatonic
scales are very common and are found all over the world. They are divided into those with
semitones (hemitonic) and those without (anhemitonic).
Examples of use of pentatonic scales include Celtic folk music, Hungarian folk music, West
African music, African-American spirituals, Gospel music, American folk music, Jazz, American
blues music, rock music, Sami joik singing, children's song, the music of ancient Greece[3][4] and
the Greek traditional music and songs from Epirus, Northwest Greece, music of Southern
Albania, folk songs of peoples of the Middle Volga area (such as the Mari, the Chuvash and
Tatars), the tuning of the Ethiopian krar and the Indonesian gamelan, Philippine kulintang, Native
American music, melodies of Korea, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, China and Vietnam
(including the folk music of these countries), the Andean music, the Afro-Caribbean tradition,
Polish highlanders from the Tatra Mountains, and Western Impressionistic composers such as
French composer Claude Debussy.[citation needed]
Pentatonic Songs:
Alouette
Amazing Grace
America, the Beautiful
Baby Please Don’t Go
Deck the Halls
Found A Peanut (Clementine)
He’s got the Whole World in his Hands
Maggie May (Rod Stewart)
My Girl (The Temptations)
Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
There’s a Hole in the Bucket
When the Saints Go Marching In
You Are My Sunshine
Lots of songs by the Black Keys( http://garyewer.wordpress.com/tag/pentatonic-scales/)
For an example of a song melody that uses the major pentatonic, listen to “The Show Goes On”
(Lupe Fiasco). For minor pentatonic, listen to “Sunny” by Bobby Hebb
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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. Pentatonic melodies offer increased chord
progression choices. The more you eliminate notes that
need to be harmonized, the more you increase the number
of potential chords that will harmonize the melody.
. Pentatonic melodies are easy to sing. There’s a good
reason why a lot of folk songs and children’s songs use
pentatonic melodies: they’re relatively easy to sing.
. Pentatonic melodies have an “indefinable charm”.
Don’t you love sitting at a piano and strum your fingers
along all the black notes? Those black notes, taken together,
give you a Gb pentatonic scale. And there’s something quite
captivating about it.
. Pentatonic melodies are somewhat easy to create. It’s
easy to improvise a pentatonic melody over a set chord
progression, because you don’t have to worry about what to
do with the leading tone or the tricky 4th note of a major
scale.