Pentatonic (was Octave and Fifth Quantizer)

[J. Larry Hendry]

> WeAreAs1 at aol.com said:
> >...  it could be pentatonic scales or some other 
> >idiot-proof mode, so all you'd have to do is hit 
> >keys, and you'd get something musical ...
> 
> This is EXACTLY something I've been thinking of 
> doing for a long time.  Can someone point me to
> some info on pentatonic scales?  Frequencies,
> ratios, or formulas?

Guitar players know the pentatonic scales well.  It allows them to be
somewhat musical in leads without really know where it is going.  Take a
standard major scale, skip the 4th and the 7th and you have pentatonic. 
After you play with it for a while though you will grow weary of the lack
of variety and real expressiveness in my opinion.

Larry Hendry