Scale · Pentatonics
B major pentatonic
Five notes, no friction: you can improvise without hitting a wrong one. Country, pop and folk live here.
Notes going up, in the Guitar sound.
Instrument
Tuning
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Notes
- B1
- C#2
- D#3
- F#5
- G#6
Also written as B · Db · Eb · Gb · Ab.
Formula
A 5-note scale — the distances are in the degrees.
Degrees
1 · 2 · 3 · 5 · 6
Chords in the scale
Triads that fit entirely inside B major pentatonic. The roman numeral is the degree: uppercase is major, lowercase is minor, ° is diminished.