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    Warnock Bebop Guitar Vocabulary 21 Bebop Scale Patterns for Guitar

  • 21 Bebop Scale Patterns for

    Guitar

    New to Jazz Guitar? Visit the Beginner's Guide to Jazz Guitar. And

    Learn to Play Jazz Guitar Today!

    One of the most widely used concepts in jazz improvisation; the

    Bebop Scale has long been a staple in the vocabulary of many of

    the genres great artists.

    Therefore it is an essential sound to get under your fingers when

    learning how to play bebop jazz guitar.

    When learning how to play jazz guitar, many players study this

    scale, they often practice it descending only, or with its related

    Dominant 7th Arpeggio ascending on the front end, but few people

    work this scale with patterns and phrases as they would the

    Pentatonic Scale or Major Scale.

    For this reason, Ive compiled 21 different patterns that you can

    use to practice Bebop Scale fingerings on the guitar, most of which

    come from David Bakers Bebop books, and all of which come from

    the jazz tradition and can be found in the solos of greats such as

    Wes Montgomery, Johnny Smith, Charlie Parker and many more.

  • Before you dive in to these patterns, check out my article on Bebop

    Scale fingerings.

    I was turned on to this unique way of playing the Bebop Scale by

    the great L.A. guitarist Jon Bremen, who in turn learned them

    from jazz education legend David Baker, and if you can get these

    scale shapes under your fingers, then the following patterns will be

    easier to learn and internalize.

    If you find that this approach to fingering the Bebop Scale is not

    your cup of tea, you can apply all of these patterns to any Bebop

    Scale fingering that you currently know or that you are working

    on in the practice room.

    Though these patterns are all presented within the Dominant

    Bebop Scale, you can also apply them to the Major Bebop Scale as

    well as the Minor Bebop Scale.

    Just grab the pattern or classic Bebop Jazz Guitar Lick that is

    unique to any particular example below and insert it into these

    other, lesser used, Bebop Scales and youll be able to expand your

    improvisations exponentially.

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    Bebop Scale Lick thread at the MWG Forum.

    Bebop Scale Patterns for Guitar

    1: Enclosed Root

    Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

    In this first example you are going to use a very popular Bebop

    technique called an enclosure.

    An enclosure is when you take a note (in this case the root) and

    play one note above that note, then one below, before finally

    settling on the note you were targeting in the first place.

    There are several common notes that you can enclose so well start

    on the root and explore more as you go.

  • Read more about this technique in my article Bebop Vocabulary:

    Enclosures

    2: Enclosed Fifth

    Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

    You can now take the same approach and enclose the fifth of the

    scale.

    The enclosure technique works particularly well with the root and

    5th of any chord.

    You can also use this approach on any note of the arpeggio or scale

    in your playing, but this is a good place to start.

  • As well, there are specific patterns that can only be applied to the

    3rd and 7th, that well see below, so enclosing the root and 5th is a

    great place to start at this point in time.

    3: Enclosed Root and Fifth

    Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

    Since youve enclosed the root and 5th separately, you can now

    enclose both of them together.

    Notice that by adding a simple idea, such as the enclosure(s),

    youre extending your melodic ideas without getting complicated.

  • All you are doing is adding in the enclosure, or other Bebop

    techniques, as you descend the scale to make the scale last longer

    as you play down the fingering.

    This is a great way to get more mileage out of any scale you are

    working on because all of a sudden 7 notes becomes 10 or 12 or

    more, allowing you to cover more ground with a simple scale or

    arpeggio fingering than you normally would without the pattern.

    4: Enclosed Root with 3 to b9

    Arpeggio

    Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

  • Now you can add a pattern to the third note of the scale, in this

    case a Diminished 7th arpeggio off of the third of the chord.

    Notice how by doing so, you are essentially resetting the scale

    back to the top of the fingering, allowing you to start over again

    and extend your melodic idea even further.

    The notes in this arpeggio are the 3rd-5th-b7th-b9th, and so this

    arpeggio is often called a 3 to 9 or more specifically a 3 to b9

    arpeggio.

    5: Enclosed Fifth with 3 to b9

    Arpeggio

  • Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

    Here is a variation on that same concept, although instead of

    enclosing the root and adding the diminished arpeggio on the

    third, you will add the enclosure on the fifth, with the diminished

    arpeggio off of the third note in the scale.

    Though I didnt include it in this article, if you want to go further

    with this concept you can do an enclosure on the root and the fifth,

    while adding the diminished arpeggio to the third of the scale.

  • 6: Enclosed 3rd With Double

    Chromatic Approach

    Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

    Up to this point, youve been enclosing the root and the fifth with

    one note above and one below each target note. Now, you can add

    one more note to that equation and do a double chromatic

    approach enclosure, this time with the third of the chord.

    Here you have one note above, F, your target note, E, and two

    notes below, D and D#. Again, you are adding a simple melodic

    device to extend your scale, allowing you to cover more ground

    without getting too fancy melodically or moving into outside

    harmonic areas.

  • 7: Enclosed 3rd with Double

    Chromatic Approach and 3 to b9

    Arpeggio

    Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

    Here you are going to mix our double enclosure with the

    diminished arpeggio from the previous example to produce a

    longer melodic idea. This practice, of combining any or all of these

    patterns in your playing is totally acceptable.

    Feel free to experiment with combining as many of these as you

    feel comfortable with. You might like to just use one per line, or if

    youre like me, you might like to use as many as you can cram into

    an idea without going beyond the borders of good musical taste.

  • 8: 3 to b9 Arpeggio (Diminished

    Arpeggio from 3rd)

    Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

    Since youve been pairing it up with the enclosures, lets just take a

    look at how the diminished arpeggio off of the third of the scale

    sounds on its own, with other melodic device used in the scale.

    Again, this is a great way to reset the scale back to the top, as

    well as accent the b9 of the chord, in this case Db, since that is the

    landing note at the top of the arpeggio.

  • 9: 7(b9/b13) With b7 to b13

    Arpeggio

    You will now apply a Bebop pattern to an altered version of the

    Bebop scale. You are going to flatten the 9th and 13th of the scale,

    common alterations for dominant chords, on the way down. Then,

    on the way up the scale, which you havent seen yet, you will play a

    Bbm7b5 arpeggio to get yourself back to the top of fingering, with

    the Bebop note, B natural, added in for good measure.

  • If this altered sound is new to you, try just adding one outside note,

    the b9 or the b13, and then combine them in your playing. The key

    is to get these new sounds in your ears so that you can use them in

    your playing. If you just have the fingerings memorized it is a lot

    more difficult to solo with any idea until you can learn to hear that

    sound in the context of how your improvise.

    10. Triplet with Enclosed Root

    Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

  • Since youve been looking at straight 8th-note patterns so far, lets

    expand your rhythmic vocabulary by adding in a triplet at the

    start of the scale, then descending the fingering with an enclosed

    root for adding spice to the line.

    You will have to alter your normal Bebop Scale fingering to get at

    the notes in the triplet, which extend above the upper tonic, so feel

    free to move your hand around on this lick. I would try to play the

    C with my middle finger, the D with my pinky, then jump back into

    the normal Bebop Scale fingering we have been using up until this

    point.

    11: Triplet off Third with b9

    Passing Note

  • Again, here is another triplet idea, this time starting on the 3rd of

    the scale, and instead of using an enclosure, you are adding in the

    b9 color tone, from the previous example. If you like this sound you

    can also add in the b13, or both the b9 and b13, whatever your ear

    find attractive as far as added color notes found outside of the

    diatonic scale.

    12: Starting from b7

    Up to this point youve descended the scale from the top note on

    down. Now, lets add a little melodic twist by starting on the b7 of

    the scale and then ascend up to the root chromatically, before

    descending the scale to the lowest note.

  • This is a cool way to play the Bebop Scale without adding or

    altering any diatonic notes, just starting on a note that isnt the

    tonic and adding a change in direction to our melodic phrase.

    13: Chromatic Triplet from 3rd

    to 5th

    Here is one of the most popular Bebop Scale patterns in any jazz

    guitarists vocabulary. Great players such as Joe Pass, Wes

    Montgomery and Pat Martino have used this idea countless times

    in their solos over the decades.

    The key is to get the chromatic triplets as smooth as possible, so

    feel free to experiment with adding slurs and slides to those six

  • notes in order to get that liquid sound that you hear in the

    playing of these great guitarists.

    14: Deflection

    This next example contains a device that David Baker calls a

    deflection. Essentially, you are using a short, four-note pattern to

    reset the scale by a few notes, not as much as the diminished

    arpeggio did, but still producing the same effect.

    Notice how the added note, the F#, functions as both an alteration,

    the #11 of the chord, as well as the lower-neighbor of the fifth, G,

    that you are using to deflect your line. Adding a harmonic color to

    your melodic phrase in this instance.

  • 15: Chromatic Down from Third

    Many players know about adding the natural 7th note to a

    Mixolydian Scale in order to build the Dominant Bebop Scale that

    you normally use in your playing. But, you can also add other

    chromatic notes to this scale, on the off-beats of the bar, in order to

    extend your melodic ideas.

    Here, you are adding two more chromatic notes, between the 3rd

    and 2nd notes as well as between the 2nd and 1st notes of the scale.

    So now you have three added chromatic notes in your Bebop Scale,

    extending it even further than the normal 8 notes of the original

    form.

  • 16: Ascending IIm7 Arpeggio

    Since you apply the Bebop Scale to a 7th chord, the V7 chord in any

    key, you can also pair it up with its popular cousin the iim7 chord.

    So, in this case you will ascend a iim7 chord, Gm7, before

    beginning our descending Bebop Scale idea. You can also spice this

    idea up by adding in any of the scale patterns that we have learned

    up to this point in order to extent this ii-V idea even further.

  • 17: Descending IIm7 Arpeggio

    This pattern features the same idea, adding in a iim7 chord to the

    Bebop Scale, but this time you will descend the iim7 arpeggio

    before jumping into the Bebop scale.

    18: Ascending Diversion from

    Flat Seven

    Here is another pattern that uses a diversion, including the added

    #11 note from the previous example, to extend our melodic ideas.

    Check out the first five notes in this pattern as well, this mini-

    motive is a very common phrase used by Bebop and Hardbop

  • players, and it is worth checking out further, both in the context of

    this line and working on it separately as well.

    19: Ascending Diversion from

    Third

    Here is another diversion, this time starting on the third of the

    scale and using both the #11 and #5 alterations to the scale. For

    good measure, well go ahead and add in the chromatic passing

    notes from the 3rd down to the root from the previous example,

    which extends the line even further.

  • Remember that it is very important to be able to let your ears

    grow accustom to these new and highly chromatic sounds, so

    practice these ideas slowly and in all 12 keys across the neck in

    order to fully ingrain them into your playing.

    20: 1-2-3-5 From Flat Seven

    In this example you are going to apply a very common Bebop

    technique called the 3 to 9 Arpeggio.

    What you are doing here, is adding in a iim7 chord at the start of

    the phrase. But, instead of playing the iim7 arpeggio from the root

    to the 7th of the chord, you are leaving the root out and playing the

    arpeggio from the 3rd to the 9th of the chord.

  • To take the idea even further, you are using an alteration of the 3

    to 9 concept here by using the 1-2-3-5 arpeggio pattern, something

    that John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner both favored in their soloing.

    This kind of rootless arpeggio is very common in the playing of

    Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and many other Bebopers. Check it

    out, this is a great melodic idea and one that every Bebop guitarist

    should have under their fingers.

    21. Honeysuckle

    To finish off our 21 Bebop Scale Patterns you will apply a variation

    of the melody to Honeysuckle Rose to the Bebop scale. The idea is

    to take a four note chromatic pattern, C-B-Bb-A, and use an triad

    starting on the 9th, Dm, to break up that pattern and extend your

    melodic idea from four notes to six.

  • Do you have a favorite Bebop Scale Fingering or Bebop Scale

    Pattern? If so, please share it in the comments section below.

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    36 Responses to "21 Bebop Scale

    Patterns for Guitar"

    1. Drew Engman says:

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    Nice set of exercises and variations, very usable right out of

    the box. Thank you!

    June 5, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    1. Jos Arboleda says:

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    Excelent lesson.,great man

  • September 5, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    1. Matthew Warnock says:

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    Thanks Jose, glad you dug it!

    September 5, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    2. Matt Warnock says:

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    Thanks Drew, yeah once you get the fingering down for the

    scale you can apply them right away, or you can apply each

    little pattern to any bebop scale fingering, or any scale

    fingering like the major modes if you want, theyre good all

    around

    June 5, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    3. Olmon says:

    Reply

    Thanks, Im a bassist looking to expand my jazz vocabulary,

    great stuff. Question, Im know that Cmajor works over Dm7

    but what other minor scales can you use Cmajor over?

    Thanks. Also does this formula work in reverse (playing Dm7

    over CMajor)?

  • June 13, 2011 at 8:54 am

    4. Matt Warnock says:

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    Hey,

    You can technically use Cmajor over any minor chord in the

    key, so Dm7 (iim7), Em7 (iiim7) and Am7 (vim7), and vice

    versa, you can use D Dorian, E Phrygian and A Aeolian over

    Cmajor7 if you want, they all share the same notes and key

    centers. What I would probably do though, is focus on

    outlining the arpeggio for each chord, and then add bebop

    lines in using arpeggios, and the bebop scale over the iim7

    and V7 chord. Check out this lesson on arpeggios with bebop

    vocabulary, might help out as well:

    http://www.mattwarnockguitar.com/instant-bebop-adding-

    chromatics-to-basic-arpeggios

    June 13, 2011 at 8:58 am

    1. Ben says:

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    Why bother with modes ? I mean, modes are related to a

    chord, not a scale. on Cmaj7 you can play D dorian is

  • completely nonsense. On all degrees you can play Cmaj

    scale, this is way easier for a student to understand.

    This said, modes are very practical to work to hear the

    colours of each of them.

    July 5, 2011 at 9:08 am

    1. Matt Warnock says:

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    Ben,

    Modes are good for adding colors to chords, yes

    you can play Cmajor over any chord in the C

    major scale, Cmaj7, Dm7, Em7 etc, but the cool

    stuff happens when you play different modes

    over each chord, like C Lydian over Cmaj7, or C

    phrygian over Cm7 instead of Dorian, that sort of

    coloring can be a very cool way to extend ideas

    and add different colors to ones playing.

    July 5, 2011 at 9:36 am

    5. David Henderson says:

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  • is there a link somewhere to Jon Bremens Bebop scale

    fingerings?

    July 5, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    1. Matt Warnock says:

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    Yeah you can find them here for major, dominant and

    minor

    http://www.mattwarnockguitar.com/guitar-

    resources/scales/bebop-scale

    July 5, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    6. magerlab says:

    Reply

    It seems to sound good if i mix C and F# patterns:) one after

    another

    For example root and fifth enclosures.

    July 10, 2011 at 8:13 am

    1. Matt Warnock says:

    Reply

  • For sure! I talk about this in my article on Tritone Division

    Soloing, check it out.

    http://www.mattwarnockguitar.com/modern-jazz-guitar-

    techniques-tritone-division-soloing

    July 10, 2011 at 8:16 am

    7. Taura says:

    Reply

    Great article Matt. I really like the way you introduce just one

    concept at a time. I havent had any Jazz Guitar students for

    over five years so I havent stayed current with the genre,

    especially bebop (which my lids replaced with hip-hop in our

    house). Your step by step illustration of Bebop conventions is

    excellent Matt. In this lesson, bebop is a great way to

    incrementally melodize scales where rhythm is relatively

    predictable if not constant and contours are relatively uniform.

    I did some bebop workshops with David Baker years ago. This

    has been a great updater. Thanks for all your work. (BTW, it

    would be cool if I could not just LIKE your article but also post

    a comment to my FB wall)

    September 2, 2011 at 10:12 am

    1. Matt Warnock says:

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    Thanks Taura, glad you liked the article. Yeah I feel that

    breaking things down and working on them step by step

    is the easiest and best way to internalize these, or any

    musical concepts.

    Feel free to copy and past the address to your FB page

    or any other site you want to post it on, spread the word!

    September 2, 2011 at 10:23 am

    8. Russell says:

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    thanks a million for this Matt,it cleared up a lot for me,its a lot

    of info so itll take a while to sink in,but thanks for this!!!!!.

    November 9, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    1. Matt Warnock says:

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    No problem, have fun with these patterns!

    November 10, 2011 at 3:30 am

    9. Eric says:

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  • Great set of exercises Matt. Its nice to have these written out

    rather than trying to reinvent the wheel with my students. I

    have a few that I am going to direct here.

    May 28, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    1. Matthew Warnock says:

    Reply

    Thanks Eric, glad youre able to use the licks with your

    students, thanks for checking out the article!

    May 28, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    10. Jeff says:

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    Matt,

    From example 4, bar 2. You didnt enclose the root after

    ascending the 3 to b9 arp. Was that deliberate? Im pretty sure

    in example 5 you enclosed the root every time, even after you

    played the ascending arp.

    I realize these are just exercises, but is the main idea to

    enclose the root *every* time, or just on the initial pass down

    the scale, but not after reascending from the arp?

  • Thanks,

    Jeff

    June 10, 2012 at 4:02 am

    1. Matthew Warnock says:

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    Hey Jeff, for that lick, the 3 to b9 arpeggio, when I use

    the arpeggio in bar 2 I just use the arpeggio not the

    enclosure on the root in that bar, so I use the enclosure

    in bars where there is no 3 to 9 arpeggio but when there

    is that arp I just use it and not in combination with the

    enclosure in this lick. Hope that helps

    June 10, 2012 at 6:03 am

    11. Jeff says:

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    Okay, thanks, Matt. The only reason I asked was because in

    example 5 you enclosed the 5th before and after the arp,

    regardless. I guess, like anything else, there are no hard and

    fast rules. Thanks!

    June 10, 2012 at 7:01 am

  • 1. Matthew Warnock says:

    Reply

    For sure, you can add as many of these into your lines

    as you want, when Im blowing over tunes I combine

    any/all of them throughout my solos. These exercises

    are just to separate them to practice, once you get them

    down go for it, mix and match as your ears please. Its all

    good!

    June 10, 2012 at 9:01 am

    12. Tom L says:

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    I dont suppose you could do bass clef version of this lesson

    could you? would be massively appreciated!

    September 18, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    1. Matthew Warnock says:

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    Hey i havent done any hass stuff on my site yet, might

    have to check that out.

    September 19, 2012 at 1:08 am

    1. Tom L says:

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    Well what your doing is useful and insightful, I

    may not be a solo/virtuoso bass player but itd be

    nice not to read your lessons a 3rd away ;)

    September 20, 2012 at 10:03 am

    13. Stush says:

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    Thanks Matt for that lesson, I have homework to do now and I

    look forward to it. I am definitely fascinated by what I call the

    mystery of bebop. I have struggled real hard to find get this

    sound and I think you have put me on the right track.

    For the most part I was just playing by ear which was more of

    a miss and hit affair. This has been with its frustrations (more)

    and joys (few). Of the few joys, I sort of realized, or even felt

    that when I use let me call it a motif of four consecutive notes

    starting from any point of the scale. Say I start from E to

    F,Gb,G, something bebopish, something sweet happens -

    though I hasten to add that the sweetness is augmented when

    I descend. So I took to injecting this four notes anywhere and

    wherever, even as I play freely. At times I would sound nice

    but deep down I know its guess work. Thats why your lesson

    here is so liberating for me.

    However this leads me to my question. Why is it that the

  • bebop scale sweetens when you descend? Must one always

    play the bebop scale descending?

    Pardon my english and thanks so much for the lesson. I`ll let

    you know of my progress.

    Shalom.

    Stush, The Gambia.

    December 31, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    14. AJ Green says:

    Reply

    Head spinning! Could be enough stuff here for this years

    practice. Thanks Matt!

    January 25, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    15. Bill Sargeant says:

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    Thanks for your article. It is very helpful. Just to be clear: the

    reason all the patterns are descending (other than ascending

    arpeggios) is because thats part of the style?

    February 14, 2013 at 2:54 am

    1. Matthew Warnock says:

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    Thats right. After you get them under your fingers, you

    can apply them ascending as well as descending. But to

    start off, working on each pattern descending gets the

    right sound and feel of each line under your fingers and

    into your ears.

    February 14, 2013 at 8:20 pm

    16. Bill Sargeant says:

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    Matt,

    Would if be possible for you to post of video of you blowing

    over some standards or blues with some of these patterns? I

    would really like to see how the finished product comes out

    so that I might better bridge the gap between practicing the

    patterns as written (in all keys) and applying them to actual

    playing. Thanks again for this important lesson.

    February 28, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    1. Matthew Warnock says:

    Reply

  • HI Bill, thanks for checking out the site. I am adding

    more videos to this page so stay tuned for future links as

    I post them.

    Cheers.

    March 1, 2013 at 10:25 am

    17. Joe says:

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    I was looking for some patterns and licks with the bebop scale

    and ran into your website. Im a piano player, but couldnt find

    what I was looking for on any piano sights. Most of their stuff

    is geared for the beginner. I like your explanations, not too

    long or too short, just right! Examples are great! Ive had

    problems playing a tune like Speak Low but I think this page is

    the answer Ive been looking for. Thanks Matt

    March 23, 2013 at 7:13 pm

    1. Matthew Warnock says:

    Reply

    Thats great Joe, glad the article is helpful and translates

    well to the piano. Enjoy the site!

  • March 23, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    18. Vitor Guerreiro says:

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    Hi Matt. Greetings from Portugal.

    First off, great site. Tons of info, technical and theory based

    exercises, very clearexcellent work.

    My question is regarding bebop scales in general. Ive read

    somewhere that when using the bebop scale the chord tone

    must fall on downbeats. Is this always applied? I mean,

    sometimes, when i practice bebop scale with arpeggios and

    enclosures, the chord tones fall on the upbeat. Is this a thing

    that i must correct right away or is something that is going to

    correct it self?

    Thanks!

    May 21, 2013 at 12:55 pm

    1. Matt Warnock says:

    Reply

    Hey, I think you might want to think that way to begin

    with, but it can be a bit tricky and sound forced if you

    always do that. So maybe try it out and see how it fits

    your playing, but for me it would be more important to

    work out common phrases from the Bebop Scale, and to

  • get those sounding organically in your playing than

    worrying about where you put chord tones and non-

    chord tones. As long as it sounds good and fits it should

    be cool, but if you find the chord tones on down beats to

    be helpful in the learning process than try it for a while

    and go from there. Cheers

    May 21, 2013 at 5:49 pm

    1. David says:

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    I see some places that say the diminished and

    bebop scale can also be pentatonic. A little

    confused as there are 8 notes in those scales.

    Can they somehow be used as pentatonics??

    Seems like they can.

    May 27, 2013 at 4:45 pm

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