What scales are used in bebop?

The five types of bebop scales are:

The major bebop scale.
The dorian bebop scale.
The melodic minor bebop scale.
The harmonic minor bebop scale.
The dominant bebop scale.

How do you practice the bebop scale?

A great way to practice this technique is by visualizing minor chords around the cycle and thinking of the related bebop scale. The next way you can apply the bebop scale to the chord progressions of tunes is over half-diminished chords.

Does bebop use chromaticism?

The development of the playing of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Green, and many more resulted in a new style bebop. Simply said is the bebop music directed towards more eighth note lines and more chromaticism in the lines.

Is there a harmonic major scale?

In music theory, the harmonic major scale is a musical scale found in some music from the common practice era and now used occasionally, most often in jazz. It can be considered a major scale with the sixth degree lowered, Ionian ♭13, or the harmonic minor scale with the third degree raised.

What makes bebop unique?

Musical style. Bebop differed drastically from the straightforward compositions of the swing era and was instead characterized by fast tempos, asymmetrical phrasing, intricate melodies, and rhythm sections that expanded on their role as tempo-keepers.

What is bebop tonguing?

In Bebop Tonguing, you tongue the upbeat and slur to the downbeat. [Example 2.2] This style of articulation is not notated in the music; the player is expected to know to use Bebop Tonguing automatically.

What is bebop language?

Bebop uses accidental passing tones, enclosures and chromatic ideas that help extend lines longer and allow chord tones to fall on certain beats as part of the vocabulary. After getting into the approach I teach, most students begin to take on a different way of hearing and playing the music.

What is the difference between the bebop scale?

The dominant bebop scale (usually just referred to as the bebop scale) adds a chromatic passing tone between the b7 and the 1. The major bebop scale (less commonly taught, but still frequently used) adds a chromatic passing tone between chord tones 5 and 6.

What scale should I learn to play saxophone?

With the system here, for all the chords in a certain key centre, there is only one scale, i.e. the scale built on the tonic of the key centre. For example Dm7, Em7, G7, Am7 are all chords in the key of C, and can all use the C major scale. As soon as you can, learn to listen, transcribe and analyse saxophone solos.

What makes a good bebop solos?

Bebop solos notably feature a lot of chromatic or non-diatonic notes – meaning pitches that music theorists can’t easily explain by simply referring to the traditional 7-note scales such as the major scale (the Ionian mode) and the modes derived from it (such as the Dorian and Mixolydian modes).

How do you make a Dorian bebop scale?

But to make a dorian bebop scale we add an E natural passing tone between the 3rd and 4th scale degrees as shown by the asterisk. Next we have the melodic minor bebop scale which comes from the melodic minor scale. In the melodic minor scale we flatten just the 3rd note of the scale by a semitone.