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In this lesson we’ll be covering the essentials of bebop scales for jazz guitar. We’ll explore four useful, relevant and fun bebop scales fingerings. As a result, your playing will be enhanced by more jazz-like phrasing using several natural and flowing fingering patterns. Why Bebop Scales? Well, at some point in their development, jazz improvisers usually get tired of fitting the right scales over chords, like Dorian, Mixolydian, and major scales, and you long for a more chromatic approach to soloing. After we can easily fit “the right scale over the right chord”, we often need some sort of new puzzle or new concept to keep things interesting. But how do we add more notes other than the plain inside diatonic ones? Where should we start?
Fortunately with bebop scales, the right notes become the starting point of our chromatic adventure. We’ll be adding outside notes to familiar scales, so you most likely grasp 95% of this concept already. Solar Energy By S P Sukhatme Pdf Printer here. Effective Bebop Scales: Download this First! 300 Rise Of An Empire Full Movie Online Free No Download. Here’s is the with the exercises from this lesson.
What is the so-called Bebop Scale? First, what is the so-called bebop scale? There’s an older video on YouTube titled, ” in which I explain the concept.
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In a few words, the main idea behind the bebop scales is adding one note to a 7-note scale to make it fit the bar of 4/4. Obviously, a scale that has 8 notes is better suited for 4/4 time signature than a scale that has only 7 notes. For instance, the C major scale: Technically, you could be adding a passing tone randomly (anywhere) within a scale you already know. But in reality, we add a bebop passing tone in a scale by making the important notes, the chord tones, following strong beats.
All the theory in the world won’t make you play better, so let’s just look at these four important guitar fingerings for the bebop scales. For all the notation (with TABS). First, let’s look at the major bebop scale. The major bebop scale has a passing tone in between the 5th and 6th degree of the scale.
Here is the fingering for C major bebop scale: Be careful with the fingering here, though. Notice that the first 3 notes of this scale are played with the fingers 1, 2, and 4, and not the fingers 1, 3, and 4. The reason for this is it’s much easier to stretch between the index and the middle finger, better than stretch with the pinkie, right? Note that we just had a 1-octave version of this scale. We could have a 2-octave version like this, or we can even start with a C root on the 6th string here, instead of the 5th.
Those possibilities are all noted in the PDF. Minor Bebop Scale Closely related to the major bebop, we have the minor bebop scale. All we have to do is lower the 3rd note of the scale, so instead of C, D, and E, it’s going to become C, D, and Eb. And that’s it! Be careful, once again, with the fingerings. This one is played with the fingers 1, 2, and 3 to start the scale. Some Theory: II-V-I Before going any further, we need a little bit of musical theory. The last 2 bebop scales in this lesson the D Dorian bebop and the G Mixolydian bebop scales.
Why those choices? And not, for instance, C Dorian and C Mixolydian?
We’ll because we want to be ready to play on the II-V-I in C major. The progression is a follow: Dm7 – G7 – Cmaj7. Also recall that the scale of choice for this Dm7 is the D Dorian scale containing the notes D, E, F, G, A, B, and C, and that the scale of choice for G7 is the G Mixolydian, containing the notes G, A, B, C, D, E and F. Note that both the D dorian and G mixolydian are still only using notes from the C major scale. Just the white keys on the piano, basically. We call them modes from C major scale. If none of this is familiar to you, please refer to thehere.