Chapter 10 - Exotic Scales guitar lesson 10 JAPANESE SCALE The diagram below contains a Japanese scale. It is a five-note scale consisting of the FIRST, FLAT SECOND, FOURTH, FIFTH, and FLAT SIXTH degrees (1, b2, 4, 5, b6) of the entire major scale. This is the entire Japanese scale.
The formula is: 1, b2, 4, 5, b6. This is an example of the Japanese scale broken down into five individual modes.
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