How to Use the Bebop Scales In Jazz

Learn Jazz Standards Podcast

Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur

Music Commentary, Jazz, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Saxophone, Jazz Theory, Jazz Bass, Jazz Piano, Education, Music, Jazz Guitar, Jazz Solo, Jazz Standards, Jazz Trumpet, How To

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this podcast episode, Brent breaks down the application of bebop scales in major, dominant, and minor chords, revealing the magic of chromatic passing tones. He emphasizes viewing the bebop scale as a tool to grasp chromaticism in jazz language rather than as rigid improvisational rules. Discover the art of improvisation and learn how bebop scales can elevate your jazz playing. Uncover practical insights and gain a fresh perspective on utilizing scales in your musical expression. The go...

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0:52.3	Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. All right, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the podcast and another week here on the Learn Jazz Standards podcast. We got a lot of really great episodes come in your way. Make sure you subscribe wherever you listen to podcast because one of the answers to these questions that are being asked here on the show this week
1:12.8	could be something that changes the trajectory of your jazz playing maybe in a small way or in a big
1:19.7	way. Either way, here to serve you guys answering your questions five days a week. Today we have a
1:25.2	really great question, a music theory question from Gerald. Let's give it a
1:29.9	listen. Where in a chord progression is the bebop scale appropriate to use. All right, the bebop
1:42.3	scale. All right. So I'm going to talk a little bit, after I go over the B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-scale and its application for jazz. So bear with me on that. I'll talk about that in one second. But let's first of all talk about what the B-BBBB-B-B-B the bebop scale is. So first of all, the bebop scale is a scale
2:03.9	that attempts to theorize the sounds that you hear in the jazz style of bebop, right? And so
2:11.8	just to catch anyone up to speed who's unfamiliar what bebop is, Bbop is sort of the dialect of jazz, if you will, the language
2:19.8	of jazz that emerged in the 1940s based off of the way that Charlie Parker, Disney, Gillespie,
2:26.7	the likes were playing, right? It was a moment in time with jazz where it went from being
2:31.2	popular music, danceable swing music, right, with the big bands,
2:35.9	think Duke Ellington, Count Basie, so on and so forth, Benny Goodman.
2:39.2	And then it went to more of a virtuastic, heavily improvisation-based kind of music,
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