pentatonic

At that point the audience is either forced to go with A minor or a pentatonic scale.

The comment is smug, unhelpful, and very misleading about the pentatonic scale.

Someone needs to combine this with a melody sequencer that maps ascii <-> pentatonic scale notes or something.

At that point, it's hard to see how the crowd could come up with anything _but_ a pentatonic scale!

Another (to me) important point: a lot of the compositions, with some notable exceptions, don't stray far from the pentatonic scale – or the individual elements are pentatonic in relation to themselves.

The pentatonic scale is 5 notes that, to western audiences, always sound relatively pleasing in relation to the other 4.

Do you restrict notes to the pentatonic scale like many such apps do so that you always get pleasant sounding results?

Explains why Garcia had no time to learn fingerings outside of the pentatonic box.

A pentatonic melody by itself doesn't infer much in the way of harmonic progression.

You could play something literally completely random in a pentatonic scale (perhaps with certain broad rhythmic restrictions), and western audiences would enjoy it.

Okay, you could call any five notes a pentatonic scale, but don't let that distract you from the pentatonic scale, the set of five notes that appears in many cultures for solid music theoretical reasons.

Related is that going four steps around the circle of fifths, for a total of five pitch classes, produces the pentatonic scale (e.g.

Anharmonic in this sense does not mean "pentatonic scale" (or 6 or 12 tones).

King has a portion of the Pentatonic box patterns for guitar named after him, it's a place on the guitar neck known to guitarists as the "the B.

We actually do have the ability to constrain notes to a scale (the default for new songs is in fact C Major Pentatonic, not chromatic).