People often say that "there is no tone". What is pentatonic?

We often hear people say, "Some people can't sing, can't sing." "Five tones" refer to palace, business, horn, sign and feather.

When singing, some people sing out of tune, often out of tune, and can't grasp the seven scales of do, re, mi, fa, sol, la and ti, so singing becomes a kind of "chanting" or "shouting" without beautiful melody at all.

Everyone in the karaoke room has experienced this kind of torture, and everyone laughs that the rapper has no artistic talent and is "tone deaf".

It is called "five tones" when it is clearly "seven tones". What happened?

This is about the concept of "five tones". China is an ancient civilization with a long history of music development, but ancient music has five tones, which is different from the West. If we compare the seven scales of western music, the pentatonic scale of ancient music in China is equivalent to do, re, mi, sol and la, omitting the "fa" and "ti" with a semitone rising. Of course, the five-tone roll call of ancient China music can't be the same as that of western music, which used "harmony, justice, delay and fairness" in the Tang Dynasty. In older times, it used "Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng (pronounced zhǐ) and Yu". Therefore, if we pay a little attention, authentic Chinese classical music has no two scales of "Fa" and "Ti". For example, Jasmine in Jiangnan minor, which is still heard from time to time, is one of the ancient songs. If it is a roll call singing method, there are only "many, come, rice, rope and pull", and there is no "law" or "sparse" sound at all; Famous ancient songs, such as "Man Jiang Hong" written by Yue Fei.

By the way, if it is found that the music song named "China Ancient Music" has the scales of "Fa" and "Xiao", it is either an impostor or has been transformed by modern people.

Pentatonic is the basic scale of ancient music in China, so there is the idiom "pentatonic".