Scale · Pentatonics

D# 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

Also written as Eb · F · G · Bb · C.

A 5-note scale — the distances are in the degrees.

1 · 2 · 3 · 5 · 6

Triads that fit entirely inside D# major pentatonic. The roman numeral is the degree: uppercase is major, lowercase is minor, ° is diminished.