Editing Pentatonic scale (section)

=== Further pentatonic musical traditions ===
[[File:D Yo scale.svg|thumb|400px|D Yo scale[[File:Yo scale on D.mid]]]]
The major pentatonic scale is the basic scale of the [[music of China]] and the [[music of Mongolia]] as well as many Southeast Asian musical traditions such as that of the Karen people as well as the indigenous Assamese ethnic groups.{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}} The pentatonic scale predominates most Eastern countries as opposed to Western countries where the [[heptatonic scale]] is more commonly used.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Graue |first1=Jerald |title=Scale |url=https://www.britannica.com/art/scale-music |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=3 May 2021}}</ref> The fundamental tones (without ''meri'' or ''kari'' techniques) rendered by the five holes of the [[Japan]]ese [[shakuhachi]] flute play a minor pentatonic scale. The [[yo scale]] used in Japanese [[shomyo]] Buddhist chants and [[gagaku]] imperial court music is an anhemitonic pentatonic scale<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080313144427/http://www.uwgb.edu/ogradyt/world/japan.htm ''Japanese Music'', ''Cross-Cultural Communication: World Music'', University of Wisconsin – Green Bay].</ref> shown below, which is the fourth mode of the major pentatonic scale.