Williams says that Simon created the five notes of steel drum music, known as the pentatonic scale. From Wordnik.com. [news.newamericamedia.org] Reference
Goethe has there suggested; and we shall find it can be arranged in what I may call a pentatonic scale of culture. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
This is called a pentatonic scale. From Wordnik.com. [The Tanooki] Reference
It's related to the pentatonic scale of Eastern music. From Wordnik.com. [Wynton Marsalis Moves Jazz To 'Higher Ground'] Reference
Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with the pentatonic scale. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
There are eight tones in the diatonic scale, five in the pentatonic. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
March 3, 2008 at 7:47 am both tunes are pentatonic, tehrefour, easier to sing. From Wordnik.com. [Ceiling cat makes his - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
And I choose to turn away from your instrument to sing my own pentatonic charm. From Wordnik.com. [con or bust auction is live!] Reference
Its musical scale is pentatonic, not chromatic, i.e., quarter notes, bent notes. From Wordnik.com. [Bono On Bono]
Blues ain't just a musical form (I-IV-V chords, pentatonic scales, blah blah blah). From Wordnik.com. [What Is The Blues] Reference
Rearranging all five notes within a single octave gives you the pentatonic sequence, C D E G A. From Wordnik.com. [Amazing grace, in the key of black] Reference
In west Africa and south Africa, it is not diatonic, seven tones, it is pentatonic with five tones. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2008] Reference
She carried the pentatonic scale on the left side of her chest, and the in-between notes on her right. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2006 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
If you listen to children when they are creating their own music it is almost always pentatonic based. From Wordnik.com. [World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo] Reference
I'm not tabbing out the solos, they are best imporvised in E blues pentatonic mostly at the twelfth fret. From Wordnik.com. [Stevie Ray Vaughan - Come On tab, bass] Reference
The combination of African rhythms and the pentatonic scale and European instrumentation and arrangement. From Wordnik.com. [February « 2010 « Gerry Canavan] Reference
From the World Science Festival is a video of Bobby McFerrin hacking your brain with the pentatonic scale. From Wordnik.com. [UFies.org: August 2009 Archives] Reference
Start a second solo with a kind of hypnotic intro before going insane with an E minor pentatonic pentatonic. From Wordnik.com. [Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Chile tab] Reference
In the hands of a skillful player, a full five-note pentatonic scale could be drawn from the simple instrument. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
On the Thummer keyboard, for example, the notes of the pentatonic scale major or minor are all mutually-adjacent. From Wordnik.com. [What is a Thummer? And should I really care?] Reference
One of these is a very prevalent use of the pentatonic or five-tone scale, corresponding to the black keys of the piano. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
What I'm trying to say actually is - you see, our music usually is based on five-tone scales or what you call pentatonic. From Wordnik.com. [Meet Mulatu Astatke, Godfather Of Ethio Jazz] Reference
Of course, at every Bobby McFerrin concert I've ever attended, 90% of the audience already knows what a pentatonic scale is!. From Wordnik.com. [World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo] Reference
That's funny, I wrote a post in my blog just a few days ago, about "common time" in music and the pentatonic scale and so on. From Wordnik.com. [More on Music] Reference
It's Puccini, and the music has all the hallmarks of a Puccini score, from the pentatonic scales to the beautiful orchestration. From Wordnik.com. [La Rondine] Reference
To this day, my bluegrass skills are shaky at best, although I can play a mean pentatonic riff if you ply me with enough liquor. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Ames Alert : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
Let's practice the pentatonic with hammer-ons/pull-offs. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
The Blues scale just adds a 6th note to a pentatonic scale. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
The following is the most widely used minor pentatonic shape. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
Also play pentatonic scales and add those missing 7ths to them. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
The melody is pentatonic, bluesy, and faintly reminiscent of a slave hymnal. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
You probably know at least your first pentatonic shape, no matter what level you're at. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
I think it's a sort of pentatonic thing a lot of the songs have been coming out in lately. From Wordnik.com. [Blogtimore, Hon] Reference
"The Lark" is written in the pentatonic scale, with accompaniment for two flutes and a harp. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
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