pentatonic
pentatonic
Definition
penta·tonic (pen′tə tän′ik)
pentatonic
Usage Examples
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.
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