Japanese Scale?

 Learn how to play the Japanese guitar scale with guitar tabs and neck diagrams all along the fretboard. The Japanese Scale scale is composed of the Root, Major Second, Perfect Fourth, Perfect Fifth, and Minor Sixth. The C Japanese Scale scale is made up of the notes C, D, F, G, and Ab its like Japanese pentatonic scale 

BUT in japan. Traditional Japanese Scales In Sen Scale Its scale spelling is: 1, b2, 4, 5, b7 The Japanese pentatonic scales (Hirajoshi,  In, Itawo) are 5-note scales that emphasize the half-step interval. While the “pentatonic major” emphasizes the consonant intervals such as the perfect fifth, the Japanese pentatonic scales emphasize the darkness of the half-step. This scale calls for an approach that is a little bit different than other scales you may have learned. It was normally played by a solo instrument. Any accompaniment would likely have been a tonic drone note

Scale              C  D  F  G  Ab

Intervals         1  2   4   5   b6

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