Perfect fifths in the pentatonic scale

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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.

Pentatonic scale – intervals

Fifths in Emerging Dances

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