Oriental (Chinese) scale
Nothing about this scale is Chinese, and the catalog name is a Western convention worth discounting, since Chinese music is built on pentatonic collections without half steps and this one holds four.
- Used for
- Middle Eastern flavored and cinematic melodies.
- Formula
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Steps H 1½ H H 1½ H W Semitones 1-3-1-1-3-1-2 Degrees 1 ♭2 3 4 ♭5 6 ♭7 - Relationships
- It is the fifth mode of the Double Harmonic Major scale.
- Rotating it further reaches Hungarian Minor and Lydian ♯2 ♯6, the other members of the same family.
Oriental (Chinese) in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- D D Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- E E Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- F F Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- G G Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- A A Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
- B B Oriental (Chinese) scale piano guitar
