Editing Pentatonic scale (section)

=== Minor pentatonic scale ===
Although various hemitonic pentatonic scales might be called ''minor'', the term is most commonly applied to the '''relative minor pentatonic''' derived from the major pentatonic, using scale tones 1, {{music|b}}3, 4, 5, and {{music|b}}7 of the [[natural minor scale]].<ref name="B&S" /> (It may also be considered a gapped [[blues scale]].)<ref>{{cite book |author=Steve Khan |title=Pentatonic Khancepts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oPnBp74IN8UC |year=2002 |publisher=Alfred Music Publishing |isbn=978-0-7579-9447-0}} p. 12.</ref> The C minor pentatonic scale, the relative minor of the E-flat pentatonic scale, is C, E-flat, F, G, B-flat. The A minor pentatonic, the relative minor of C pentatonic, comprises the same tones as the C major pentatonic, starting on A, giving A, C, D, E, G. This minor pentatonic contains all three tones of an A minor triad.

:<score sound="1"> {
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c'' {
  \time 5/4
  a4 c d e g | a
} }

</score>

The standard tuning of a [[guitar]] uses the notes of an E minor pentatonic scale: E–A–D–G–B–E, contributing to its frequency in popular music.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Serna |first1=Desi |title=Guitar Theory for Dummies |date=2013 |publisher=Wiley |location=Hoboken, New Jersey|isbn=978-1-118-64677-9 |page=168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5dtAwAAQBAJ}}</ref> [[Stevie Wonder]] employed the minor pentatonic for the [[funky]] [[clavinet]] riff on the track "[[Superstition (song)|Superstition]]" (1972).<ref>{{cite book |last=Perone |first=James E. |date=2006 |title=The Sound of Stevie Wonder: His Words and Music |location=Westport, CT |publisher=Praeger Publishers |isbn=027598723X |page=17}}</ref>