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  2. Nashville Number System - Wikipedia

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    In the key of C, C/E (C major first inversion, with E bass) is written as 1/3; G/B is written as 5/7; Am/G (an inversion of Am7) is written as 6m/5; F/G (F major with G bass) is 4/5. Just as with simple chords, the numbers refer to scale degrees; specifically, the scale degree number used for the bass note is that of the note's position in the ...

  3. Pentatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    The first two phrases of the melody from Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna" are based on the major pentatonic scale [1]. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

  4. Hexatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    Another famous use of the augmented scale (in jazz) is in Oliver Nelson's solo on "Stolen Moments". [4] It is also prevalent in 20th century compositions by Alberto Ginastera , [ 5 ] Almeida Prado , [ 6 ] Béla Bartók , [ 7 ] Milton Babbitt , and Arnold Schoenberg , by saxophonists John Coltrane and Oliver Nelson in the late 1950s and early ...

  5. In scale - Wikipedia

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    In scale on D with auxiliary notes (F) & (C). 1-b2-(b3)-4-5-b6-(b7) Play ⓘ. More recent theory [ 2 ] emphasizes that it is more useful in interpreting Japanese melody to view scales on the basis of "nuclear tones" located a fourth apart and containing notes between them, as in the miyako-bushi scale used in koto and shamisen music and whose ...

  6. Figured bass - Wikipedia

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    The figured bass notation, described below, is a guide, but performers are also expected to use their musical judgment and the other instruments or voices (notably the lead melody and any accidentals that might be present in it) as a guide. Experienced players sometimes incorporate motives found in the other instrumental parts into their ...

  7. Talk:Pentatonic scale - Wikipedia

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    I've left for now the last bit (in slightly altered form): "The pentatonic scale used by the Gogo people of Tanzania is said to be tuned thus: 1:9/8:5/4:3/2:7/4. This anhemitonic scale can be thought of as a section of the harmonic series, from the 5th or 6th overtone up to the 10th, transposed to other octaves.

  8. Matt Bissonette (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Matt Bissonette (born July 25, 1961) is an American bass player and vocalist. According to Guitar 9, an online musicianship magazine, he has played bass and other stringed instruments on at least 22 albums, with music styles ranging from jazz, jazz fusion, progressive metal and instrumental rock.

  9. John Entwistle - Wikipedia

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    John Alec Entwistle was born on 9 October 1944 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London, [1] [5] and brought up in Chiswick, Middlesex, which is now part of London. [6] He was an only child. His father, Herbert (1915 - 2003), played the trumpet [7] and his mother, Maud (née Lee) (29 November 1922 – 4 March 2011), [8] played the ...