Pelog (Balinese) scale
Pelog is a tuning system used across Indonesian gamelan rather than a set of twelve-tone pitches, so this scale approximates it rather than reproducing it, and the catalog name is best read that way.
- Used for
- Gamelan-inspired and ambient music.
- Formula
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Steps H W 4 semitones H 4 semitones Semitones 1-2-4-1-4 Degrees 1 ♭2 ♭3 5 ♭6 - Relationships
- It is the second mode of the Ionian Pentatonic scale.
- Rotating it onto the flat sixth degree produces the Ionian Pentatonic, tying two unrelated traditions to a single collection.
- Also called
- Pelog Pentatonic and Bhupalam.
Pelog (Balinese) in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- D D Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- E E Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- F F Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- G G Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- A A Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
- B B Pelog (Balinese) scale piano guitar
