Chinese / Japanese Scales

[shredaholic]

anyone got any chinese/japanese sounding scales (or ones that actually originated from japan or china)?

i was on a lesson site once and there was a lesson called "the chinese scale", and it was just the major pentatonic

so i don't mean that mode of the pentatonic, but if you do have a scale like I'm after that does happen to be a pentatonic that isn't major or minor pentatonic, can you share it?

cheers

 

[rraawwrr]

Re: Chinese / Japanese Scales

One really cool one is called either the kokinjoshi or the hirojoshi... I can't remember which.

Anyhow its 1-2-b3-5-b6-8

Or in the key of A: A, B, C, E, F, A