A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave.
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Any pentatonic scale contains 5 notes. "Penta" is a prefix meaning 5.
One difference between a whole tone scale and a pentatonic scale is that a whole tone scale has 6 notes per octave while a pentatonic scale has 5 notes per octave. Another major difference is that a whole tone scale has all adjacent notes a whole step apart, while a pentatonic scale does not consist entirely of whole steps, and since a pentatonic scale is only defined as a scale with 5 notes per octave, there are many pentatonic scales that are possible.
Pentatonic scales contain 5 notes, the same way a pentagon has 5 sides.
Five. "Penta" is a prefix meaning "five." A pentatonic is a scale with five notes, the way a pentagon is a shape with five sides.
There are 330 possible 5 note permutations derived from the chromatic scale.