THE KUMOI SCALE is a scale of Japanese origin.
It is a five note/tone scale and contains the intervals: 1,2,b3,5,6.
Just noodle up and down it a few times and the Japanese sound will be apparent.
I though it seems really odd that if you take the 4th and the 7th out of The Dorian mode it suddenly sounds really Japanese!
The free guitar scale diagrams below lay out KUMOI SCALE for you all over the neck and as the five interlocking positions that link together to let you play the scale any where on the neck in any key.
It also has 4 other modes that I will consider later.
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