Harmony note (in this case B, D and F) provide the harmony. In the musical scale, there are twelve pitches. Each pitch is referred to as a "degree" of the scale. The names A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are insignificant. The intervals, however, are not. Here is an example: As can be seen, no note always corresponds to a certain degree of the scale. The "tonic", or 1st-degree note, can be any of the 12 notes (pitch classes) of the chromatic scale. All the other notes fall into place. For example, when C is the tonic, the fourth
In scale and containing notes between them, as in the "miyako-bushi" scale used in "koto" and "shamisen" music and whose pitches are equivalent to the "in" scale: In Indian classical music, Gunkali (Hindustani) and Karnataka Shuddha Saveri (Carnatic) are nearly identical to the pentatonic "in" scale, highlighting the shared past of their origins. Some rare examples of ancient genres of Andean music (e.g. k'antu) use a scale similar to the "in" scale combined with melody leading with a parallel fifths and fourths. For example listen to "Machulas Kantu" by Bolivia Manta folk group ("Wiñayataqui", 1981). In scale The in" scale (also known