Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale
A major scale with a flat fifth added beside the natural fifth is all this amounts to, eight notes where seven would do, and the extra pitch works as a passing tone rather than an alteration.
- Used for
- Traditional Japanese and film music.
- Formula
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Steps W W H H H W W H Semitones 2-2-1-1-1-2-2-1 Degrees 1 2 3 4 ♭5 5 6 7 - Relationships
- It is the fourth mode of the Bebop Dominant scale.
Ichikosucho (Japanese) in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- D D Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- E E Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- F F Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- G G Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- A A Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar
- B B Ichikosucho (Japanese) scale piano guitar