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diatonic scale

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diatonic scale

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Three commonly used diatonic scales.

In music, a scale consisting of the seven notes of any major or minor key.



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Since there are only seven degrees in a diatonic scale the eleventh degree is the same as the subdominant and the interval
Since there are only seven degrees in a diatonic scale the eleventh degree is the same as the subdominant and the interval
a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted
 
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