Hexatonic scale
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In music a hexatonic scale is a scale (music) with six (hexa) degrees. One example is the whole tone scale, also known as the or interval cycle 2 (C2). Another is the "augmented scale", C D# E G Ab B. Another example is the blues scale: C Eb F Gb G Bb.
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