The comment is smug, unhelpful, and very misleading about the pentatonic scale.
Okay, you could call any five notes a pentatonic scale, but don't let that distract you from the pentatonic scale, the set of five notes that appears in many cultures for solid music theoretical reasons.
The linked video about blues is using the same scale, just with the notes in a different order. Different modes are not different scales. D F G A C is the same scale as C D F G A. We should be interested in the fact that blues and Thai music use the same intervals, not dismissive.
The comment also continues to ramble through several kinda-music-theory-esque statements whose aim is not to inform, but just to make the author appear smart.
> the fact that blues and Thai music use the same intervals
Blues and Thai music do not use the same intervals. Blues is hemitonic, Thai music is anhemitonic.
".And the Thai musical scale is indeed different -- for the intervals between all notes are exactly the same. This means that almost all the notes are slightly different in pitch from those on the western scale. Only the interval between a note and its octave, eight notes higher up the scale, is the same as in the west." [0]
The problem with this site is that people don't accept information unless it's accompanied with a major dose of ass-kissing. "So, pretty please with sugar on top, clean the fucking car."
> > kinda-music-theory-esque statements
> solid music theoretical reasons
Ok, you've done what you've accused me of doing. Care to back your statement up?
Okay, you could call any five notes a pentatonic scale, but don't let that distract you from the pentatonic scale, the set of five notes that appears in many cultures for solid music theoretical reasons.
The linked video about blues is using the same scale, just with the notes in a different order. Different modes are not different scales. D F G A C is the same scale as C D F G A. We should be interested in the fact that blues and Thai music use the same intervals, not dismissive.
The comment also continues to ramble through several kinda-music-theory-esque statements whose aim is not to inform, but just to make the author appear smart.
Yep. This site sometimes.