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> Using 7 as reference is tradition, e.g. the pentatonic scale has 5. That's our point.
by kaoD 6y ago
> Using 7 as reference is tradition, e.g. the pentatonic scale has 5.
That's our point.
- goto11 6y agoOk, but that is kind of orthogonal to the point I was making. I was just stating that it follows from the math that the notes in a 7-note scale are not evenly spaced. The same is true for a pentatonic scale, for the same reason: The intervals corresponds to the simplest ratios (2:3, 3:4 etc.) but these do not in turn correspond to divide the octave evenly.