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Drills: Octatonic, Whole Tone, and Pentatonic
Each exercise presents 5 contiguous pitches from one of the three scales: octatonic, whole tone, or pentatonic.
For each exercise, identify the collection as octatonic, whole tone, or pentatonic.
In the answers, accidentals apply only to notes they immediately precede.
Set A
A1
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A2
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A3
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A4
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A5
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A6
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A7
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A8
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A9
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A10
00:00 / 00:06
Set B
These are a little harder. The pitches are not always contiguous in the scale, and there are some octave displacements.
B1
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B2
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B3
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B4
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B5
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B6
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B7
00:00 / 00:06
B8
00:00 / 00:06
B9
00:00 / 00:04
B10
00:00 / 00:05
Set C
C1
00:00 / 00:06
C2
00:00 / 00:06
C3
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C4
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C5
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C6
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C7
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C8
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C9
00:00 / 00:06
C10
00:00 / 00:05
Set D
D1
00:00 / 00:06
D2
00:00 / 00:07
D3
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D4
00:00 / 00:07
D5
00:00 / 00:07
D6
00:00 / 00:06
D7
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D8
00:00 / 00:06
D9
00:00 / 00:07
D10
00:00 / 00:05
Set E
E1
00:00 / 00:06
E2
00:00 / 00:06
E3
00:00 / 00:06
E4
00:00 / 00:06
E5
00:00 / 00:06
E6
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E7
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E8
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E9
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E10
00:00 / 00:05
Set F
F1
00:00 / 00:06
F2
00:00 / 00:06
F3
00:00 / 00:06
F4
00:00 / 00:06
F5
00:00 / 00:06
F6
00:00 / 00:06
F7
00:00 / 00:07
F8
00:00 / 00:06
F9
00:00 / 00:06
F10
00:00 / 00:05
Set G
G1
00:00 / 00:06
G2
00:00 / 00:06
G3
00:00 / 00:06
G4
00:00 / 00:06
G5
00:00 / 00:06
G6
00:00 / 00:06
G7
00:00 / 00:06
G8
00:00 / 00:06
G9
00:00 / 00:06
G10
00:00 / 00:05
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