About the A Miyako-bushi (Japanese) scale
A Miyako-bushi (Japanese) is a Japanese five-note scale, the same spare flat second and sixth as kumoijoshi. It's used for traditional Japanese melodies.
Learn morePositions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
Pentatonic boxes
The five shapes blues and rock are built on, the first scale most guitarists ever solo with, one box per note up the neck.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | A | Root |
| 2 | B flat | Minor 2nd |
| 3 | D | Perfect 4th |
| 4 | E | Perfect 5th |
| 5 | F | Minor 6th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths
Related scales
Miyako-bushi (Japanese) in other keys
C Miyako-bushi (Japanese) D flat Miyako-bushi (Japanese) D Miyako-bushi (Japanese) E flat Miyako-bushi (Japanese) E Miyako-bushi (Japanese) F Miyako-bushi (Japanese) G flat Miyako-bushi (Japanese) G Miyako-bushi (Japanese) A flat Miyako-bushi (Japanese) B flat Miyako-bushi (Japanese) B Miyako-bushi (Japanese)
Modes
The same notes, starting on a different note.
