Jazz Scales - Bebop Scales

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In this series of videos I cover everything you need to know about Jazz Scales, including but not limited to:
- How scales are related to chords (the Chord-Scale System)
- Why you can use different scales over the same chord
- Commonly used jazz scales including: melodic minor modes, bebop scales, whole tone scale, diminished scale, pentatonic scale.

This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about Bebop Scales. They are effectively just regular western scales and modes - such as the major, melodic minor, dorian and mixolydian scales and modes - but with an added chromatic note. This added chromatic note exists to line up the number of notes in the scale with the number of quavers in a bar of 4/4 time.

But adding this chromatic note, Bebop scales are able to better emphasise the harmonically strong notes during improvisational runs and better align the number of notes to the number of beats in a bar. This makes an improvisational run simply fit better over the time signature.

While you can in theory add any additional chromatic passing note to a scale to get a bebop scale, over time jazz musicians have settled on a few standard passing notes for each of the scales.

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