http://www.shredaholic.com/user48.html2. The (misnamed) "Kumoi" Scale (Hon Kumoi Shiouzhi Scale)
OK, now we will to look at another Japanese scale commonly known as Kumoi. I know this scale as kumoi, but in my research I've found that his real name is Hon Kumoi Shiouzhi. In reality, the name of shiouzhi is referred to one tuning of a Japanese stringed instrument known as Koto, by the way the names Hira, Kumoi, Kokin and Hon Kumoi are tunings with certain intervallic distances from string to string). The Kumoi scale is the first Japanese scale that I learned, it sounds very good and exotic, its intervallic structure is: H-2-W-H-2. This means that our first intervallic distance is of a half tone, our second intervallic distance is of two whole tones, our third distance is of a whole tone, our fourth distance is of a half tone and finally our last distance in this scale is of two whole tones. In the tonality of A, this scale has the following tones: A, Bb, D, E, F A
it has the following formula:1, b2, 4, 5, b6. Which means: 1=root, b2=minor second, 4= perfect fourth, 5= perfect fifth, b6 is a minor sixth.
The hon kumoi shiouzhi in A tonality:
Gtr I (4/4)
|----------------------------10-12-13-|
|----------------------10-11----------|
|---------------7-9-10----------------|
|-----------7-8-----------------------|
|-----5-7-8---------------------------|
|-5-6---------------------------------|
|-----------------------6-10----|
|------------------6-10---------|
|--------------7-9--------------|
|----------7-8------------------|
|------7-8----------------------|
|-6-10--------------------------|
|---------------------1-5----|
|-----------------3-5--------|
|-------------2-3------------|
|---------2-3----------------|
|-----1-5--------------------|
|-1-5------------------------|
|----------------------------------------17-18----|
|-------------------------------15-17-18----------|
|-------------------------14-15-------------------|
|----------------12-14-15-------------------------|
|----------12-13----------------------------------|
|-10-12-13----------------------------------------|
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Здесь Фридман использовал эту гамму в Си миноре (типа G "лидийскую"):