About the D Piongio (Japanese) scale
D Piongio (Japanese) is a bright six-note scale with a flat seventh. It's used for folk and pentatonic-flavored melodies.
Positions
Playable shapes for this scale up the neck. Tap any note to hear it.
6-position system
6 four-fret boxes, one per scale degree, each a single hand position with almost no shifting. The jazz and classical way, from William Leavitt's Berklee method.
Notes and intervals
| 1 | D | Root |
| 2 | E | Major 2nd |
| 3 | G | Perfect 4th |
| 4 | A | Perfect 5th |
| 5 | B | Major 6th |
| 6 | C | Minor 7th |
Shapes
Chromatic
Circle of Fifths