B Japanese Scale

Ethnic Scale

start by assigning your fingers to the first, second, third and fourth frets
on the fifth string play a B on the second fret using your second finger and a C sharp on the fourth fret using your fourth finger
on the fourth string play an E on the second fret using your second finger and an F sharp on the fourth fret using your fourth finger
play the third string open (G)
play the second string open (B)

B JapaneseCAGED Scale Shapes

C Shape

A Shape

G Shape

E Shape

D Shape

Recommended Chords for a B Japanese Scale

	Chord	Shared Notes
	B Suspended 2 Guitar Chord	B, C#, F#
	B Suspended Guitar Chord	B, E, F#
	C# Diminished Guitar Chord	C#, E, G
	E Minor 6th (Add9) Guitar Chord	E, G, B, C#, F#
	E Minor (Add9) Guitar Chord	E, G, B, F#
	E Minor 6th Guitar Chord	E, G, B, C#
	E Minor Guitar Chord	E, G, B
	E Suspended 2 Guitar Chord	E, F#, B
	F# 7th Sus4 Guitar Chord	F#, B, C#, E
	F# Suspended Guitar Chord	F#, B, C#

Japanese mode

The Japanese mode is a pentatonic musical scale commonly used in traditional Japanese music. The intervals of the scale are major second, minor third, perfect fifth and minor sixth (such as the notes A, B, C, E, F and up to A ja:ヨナ抜き音階.), essentially a natural minor scale in Western music theory without the subdominant and subtonic, the same operation performed on the major scale to produce the pentatonic major scale. The more correct term would be kumoijoshi, as given by William P. Malm for one of the three tuning scales of the koto adapted from shamisen music.

B Japanese Scale

Ethnic Scale

B JapaneseCAGED Scale Shapes

Recommended Chords for a B Japanese Scale

Notes in a B Japanese Scale

Japanese mode