However , the pentatonic scale which is used in most Western music uses notes which do not have any semitones . The traditional Japanese song `` Sakura '' uses a hemitonic pentatonic scale of the notes A-B-C-E-F . The Yo scale used in Japanese shomyo Buddhist chants and gagaku imperial court music is an anhemitonic pentatonic scale shown below , which is the fourth mode of the major pentatonic scale .