Chromatic scale 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 scale with no tonic because of the symmetry of its equally-spaced notes. The ascending and descending
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