Editing Pentatonic scale (section)

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[[Military cadence|U.S. military cadences]], or ''jodies'', which keep soldiers in step while marching or running, also typically use pentatonic scales.<ref name="NROTC Cadences">{{cite web |title=NROTC Cadences |access-date=2010-09-22 |url=http://www.lukeswartz.com/nrotc/cadences.html}}</ref>

[[Hymns]] and other religious music sometimes use the pentatonic scale; for example, the melody of the hymn "[[Amazing Grace]]."<ref>[[Steve Turner (writer)|Steve Turner]], ''Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song'' (New York: HarperCollins, 2002): p.&nbsp;122. {{ISBN|0-06-000219-0}}1</ref>

The common pentatonic major and minor scales (C-D-E-G-A and C-E{{music|b}}-F-G-B{{music|b}}, respectively) are useful in modal composing, as both scales allow a melody to be modally ambiguous between their respective major ([[Ionian mode|Ionian]], [[Lydian mode|Lydian]], [[Mixolydian mode|Mixolydian]]) and minor ([[Aeolian mode|Aeolian]], [[Phrygian mode|Phrygian]], [[Dorian mode|Dorian]]) modes ([[Locrian mode|Locrian]] excluded). With either modal or non-modal writing, however, the ''harmonization'' of a pentatonic melody does not necessarily have to be derived from only the pentatonic pitches.{{Citation needed|date=May 2015}}

Most [[Tuareg]] songs are pentatonic, as is most other music from the [[Sahel]] and [[Sudan]] regions.