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E Piongio (Japanese) scale

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About the E Piongio (Japanese) scale

E 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.

Position 1open
Position 2fr 2
Position 3fr 5
Position 4fr 7
Position 5fr 9
Position 6fr 10

Notes and intervals

1 E Root
2 F sharp Major 2nd
3 A Perfect 4th
4 B Perfect 5th
5 C sharp Major 6th
6 D Minor 7th

Shapes

Chromatic

C C♯ D♭ D D♯ E♭ E F F♯ G♭ G G♯ A♭ A A♯ B♭ B

Circle of Fifths

C G D A E B F♯ G♭ C♯ D♭ G♯ A♭ D♯ E♭ A♯ B♭ F

Related scales

Piongio (Japanese) in other keys

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