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Can you hear the perfect fifths in the pentatonic scale?
The interval of a perfect fifth is 'contained' twice in the common pentatonic scale.
Here’s the scale in full:
And from this, you can extract two sets of perfect fifths:
So you could say that there are two perfect fifths contained in the pentatonic scale.
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