Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale
Hirajoshi is a koto tuning before it is a scale, which is what the name literally refers to, and its five notes are the pitches the instrument's strings are set to.
- Used for
- Traditional Japanese and koto music.
- Formula
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Steps W H 4 semitones H 4 semitones Semitones 2-1-4-1-4 Degrees 1 2 ♭3 5 ♭6 - Relationships
- It is the second mode of the Chinese scale.
- Rotating it reaches Iwato and Miyako-bushi, its neighbors in the same family.
- Also called
- Aeolian Pentatonic and Yona Nuki Minor.
Hirajoshi (Japanese) in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- D D Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- E E Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- F F Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- G G Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- A A Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- B B Hirajoshi (Japanese) scale piano guitar
