A Japanese Scale

Ethnic Scale

start by assigning your fingers to the first four frets
play the fifth string open (A) and a B on the second fret using your second finger
play the fourth string open (D), an E on the second fret using your second finger and an F on the third fret using your third finger
on the third string play an A on the second fret using your second finger

A JapaneseCAGED Scale Shapes

A Shape

G Shape

E Shape

D Shape

C Shape

Recommended Chords for an A Japanese Scale

	Chord	Shared Notes
	A Suspended 2 Guitar Chord	A, B, E
	A Suspended Guitar Chord	A, D, E
	B Diminished Guitar Chord	B, D, F
	D Minor 6th (Add9) Guitar Chord	D, F, A, B, E
	D Minor (Add9) Guitar Chord	D, F, A, E
	D Minor 6th Guitar Chord	D, F, A, B
	D Minor Guitar Chord	D, F, A
	D Suspended 2 Guitar Chord	D, E, A
	E 7th Sus4 Guitar Chord	E, A, B, D
	E Suspended Guitar Chord	E, A, B

Japanese mode

The Japanese mode is a pentatonic musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music. The intervals of the scale are major second, minor third, perfect fifth and minor sixth (such as the notes A, B, C, E, F and up to A ja:ヨナ抜き音階.), essentially a natural minor scale in Western music theory without the subdominant and subtonic, the same operation performed on the major scale to produce the pentatonic major scale. The more correct term would be kumoijoshi, as given by William P. Malm for one of the three tuning scales of the koto adapted from shamisen music.

A Japanese Scale

Ethnic Scale

A JapaneseCAGED Scale Shapes

Recommended Chords for an A Japanese Scale

Notes in an A Japanese Scale

Japanese mode