A jazz scale is any musical scale used in jazz. Many "jazz scales" are common scales drawn from Western European classical music, including the diatonic...

The jazz minor scale or ascending melodic minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used...

pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and...

the minor scale has three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending...

Modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation, as did free jazz, which...

or a ♯4. The first known published instance of this scale is Jamey Aebersold's How to Play Jazz and Improvise Volume 1 (1970 revision, p. 26), and Jerry...

In jazz, the altered scale, altered dominant scale, or Super Locrian scale (Locrian ♭4 scale) is a seven-note scale that is a dominant scale where all...

frequently used in jazz improvisation. Jazz educator David Baker nicknamed these scales the "bebop scales" because they were used often by jazz artists from...

list of musical scales and modes. Degrees are relative to the major scale. Bebop scale Chord-scale system Heptatonic scale Jazz scale List of chord progressions...

called the altered Phrygian scale, dominant flat 2 flat 6 (in jazz), or Freygish scale (also spelled Fraigish). It resembles the Phrygian mode but with...

In classical theory (in contrast to jazz theory), this symmetrical scale is commonly called the octatonic scale (or the octatonic collection), although...

"pattern" players among college-educated musicians. Jazz chord Jazz scale Side-slipping Hatfield, Ken (2005). Jazz and the Classical Guitar Theory and Applications...

the acoustic scale, overtone scale, Lydian dominant scale (Lydian ♭7 scale), or the Mixolydian ♯4 scale is a seven-note synthetic scale. It is the fourth...

scale Octatonic (8 notes per octave): used in jazz and modern classical music Heptatonic (7 notes per octave): the most common modern Western scale Hexatonic...

The Dorian ♭2 scale, also known as the Phrygian ♮6 scale, is the second mode of the jazz minor scale (or the ascending melodic minor scale). It is on the...

dominant scale is: Mixolydian mode Dominant scale may also refer to: Phrygian dominant scale Lydian dominant scale altered dominant scale (a jazz scale), or...

Ethiopian jazz, also referred to as Ethio-jazz, is a blend of traditional Ethiopian music with jazz, combining the pentatonic scale-based melodies of...

first book of piano Préludes. This whole-tone scale has appeared occasionally and sporadically in jazz at least since Bix Beiderbecke's impressionistic...

harmonic major scale is a musical scale found in some music from the common practice era and now used occasionally, most often in jazz. In George Russell's...

progressions, and the incorporation of the major and minor scales as a basis for chordal construction. In jazz, chords are often arranged vertically in major or...

augmented scale (see jazz scale and chord-scale system). This chord also comes from the third mode of both the harmonic minor and the melodic minor scales. For...

Fantaisie sur La clochette. Some early instances of the use of the scale in jazz writing can be found in Bix Beiderbecke's "In a Mist" (1928) and Don...

and kokinjoshi 'scales' are Western derivations of the koto tunings of the same names. These scales have been used by rock and jazz guitarists in search...

jazz guitarist or jazz pianist on an altered dominant chord on G might include (at the discretion of the performer) a flatted ninth A♭ (a ninth scale...

Lydian augmented and A melodic minor ascending share the same notes). Jazz scale Lydian chord Lydian mode Coker, Jerry (1997). Jerry Coker's Complete Method...

bebop-era jazz pianists began to improvise over the chord changes using scales (whole tone scale, chromatic scale, etc.) and arpeggios. Jazz piano (the...

and contains a wide range of jazz concepts from melodic minor scales and whole tone scale to bebop scales, diminished scales and "Coltrane" reharmonization...

as with several jazz orchestras throughout Germany during the 1930s. It was not until the large-scale emergence of small combo jazz in the post-WWII...

ISBN 978-0871667823. Dahl, Gary (2004). Mel Bay's Master Accordion Scale Book With Jazz Scale Studies. Pacific, Mo.: Mel Bay Publications. ISBN 978-078666708-6...

hand, bebop jazz songs may have 32-bar song forms with one or two chord changes every bar. A chord may be built upon any note of a musical scale. Therefore...