Improvising with the 5 Elements
from the:
The Music Apothecary
According to the Ancients the 5 notes & 5 modes of the Pentatonic Scale have a direct correlation to the 5 Elements of Chinese Medicine:
| Water | Wood | Fire | Earth | Metal |
| Aeolian | Phrygian | Mixolydian | Ionian | Dorian |
| Fear | Anger | Lack of Joy | Worry | Grief |
| A | E | G | C | D |
The complete system can then be extrapolated:
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