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I am interested in the traditional Chinese music system, which is supposed to be a pentatonic scale. According to Wiki, one way to get a pentatonic scale is to take five consecutive pitches from the circle of fifths and put them into one octave. For example, we take C, G, D, A, E and put them in one octave as C, D, E, G, A.
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Diatonic is commonly used to mean incorporating the 12-tone system of so-called 'Western theory', whereas pentatonic refers to the use of any number of 5-tone systems. I think technically when using a pentatonic scale, as long as you stay within that scale you can still be said to be playing 'diatonically'. But, the use of pentatonics sort of restricts what modern theoretical equivalences can ...
Why would you use one [pentatonic scale] over another? Each pentatonic scale has a tonal center — a pitch toward which the others are directed. That's how the letter-name part of the scale is derived.
how do you choose which pentatonic scale to use over a progression?