Chromatic scale i.e. sargam, makes up the twelve notes of the chromatic scale with respective sharps and flats. Chromatic scale The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches. As a result, in 12-tone equal temperament (the most common temperament in Western music), the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches. Thus, there is only one chromatic scale. Moreover, in equal temperament, all the semitones have the same size (100 cents). As a result, the notes of an equal-tempered chromatic scale are equally-spaced. This makes the chromatic scale a nondiatonic
Yo scale A - B. This is illustrated below. The Ryūkyū scale appears to be derived from the yo scale with pitches raised. More recent theory emphasizes that it is more useful in interpreting Japanese melody to view scales on the basis of "nuclear tones" located a fourth apart and containing notes between them, as in the "min'yō" scale used in folk music, and whose pitches are equivalent to the second mode of the "yo" scale: Yo scale The "yo" scale, which does not contain minor notes, according to a traditional theory is a pentatonic scale used in much Japanese music including