Adjective modifier

• minor: It introduces patterns characteristic of the idiom, such as modes, , the blues scale and the minor pentatonic.

Modifies a noun

• scale: Play your minor pentatonic scale with the first finger up at the 5th fret.

• melody: His Black Key Etude with its pentatonic melodies enjoys special popularity among the Chinese people.

• mode: Based on eerie Ethiopian pentatonic modes, their harmonies float in mid-air, building a sweet suspense that is never quite released.

Modifying Another Word

• basically: Secondly, folk music consisted of simple short forms, a basically pentatonic scale, and simple language.