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ABOUT MATT O ENDORSEMENTS O TESTIMONIALS

CONTACT MATT O BOOKING MATT WARNOCK

QUESTIONS FOR MATT MWG JAZZ GUITAR FORUM

O REGISTRATION O USER GUIDE O LOGIN O LOST PASSWORD

Matt Warnock Guitar Your Online Guide to Playing Better Jazz Guitar

New to Jazz Guitar? Start Here Play Better Jazz Guitar Today

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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, I’ve compiled 21 different patterns that you can

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

come from David Baker’s 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.

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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 you’ll be able to expand your

improvisations exponentially.

Learn Jazz Guitar Scales and Scale Patterns with the Matt

Warnock Guitar Jazz Scales App

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Have any questions or comments about this lesson? Visit the 21

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 we’ll start

on the root and explore more as you go.

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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.

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

3rd and 7th, that we’ll 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 you’ve 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),

you’re extending your melodic ideas without getting complicated.

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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

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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

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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 didn’t 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.

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6: Enclosed 3rd With Double

Chromatic Approach

Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

Up to this point, you’ve 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.

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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

you’re 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.

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8: 3 to b9 Arpeggio (Diminished

Arpeggio from 3rd)

Click to view the YouTube video for this Bebop Scale Pattern

Since you’ve been pairing it up with the enclosures, let’s 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.

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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 haven’t 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.

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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

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Since you’ve been looking at straight 8th-note patterns so far, let’s

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

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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 you’ve descended the scale from the top note on

down. Now, let’s 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.

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

altering any diatonic notes, just starting on a note that isn’t 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

guitarist’s 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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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, we’ll 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.

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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.

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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.

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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. José Arboleda says:

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Excelent lesson.,great man…

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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, they’re good all

around

June 5, 2011 at 10:20 pm

3. Olmon says:

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Thanks, I’m 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)?

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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

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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 one’s playing.

July 5, 2011 at 9:36 am

5. David Henderson says:

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is there a link somewhere to Jon Bremen’s 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:

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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:

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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:

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

concept at a time. I haven’t had any Jazz Guitar students for

over five years so I haven’t 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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Reply

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,it’s a lot

of info so it’ll 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. It’s 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:

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Thanks Eric, glad you’re 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 didn’t enclose the root after

ascending the 3 to b9 arp. Was that deliberate? I’m 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?

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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

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1. Matthew Warnock says:

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

as you want, when I’m 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. It’s all

good!

June 10, 2012 at 9:01 am

12. Tom L says:

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I don’t 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 haven’t 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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Reply

Well what your doing is useful and insightful, I

may not be a solo/virtuoso bass player but it’d 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

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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:

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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 that’s part of the style?

February 14, 2013 at 2:54 am

1. Matthew Warnock says:

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Reply

That’s 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:

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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. I’m a piano player, but couldn’t 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! I’ve had

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

the answer I’ve been looking for. Thanks Matt

March 23, 2013 at 7:13 pm

1. Matthew Warnock says:

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That’s great Joe, glad the article is helpful and translates

well to the piano. Enjoy the site!

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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 clear…excellent work.

My question is regarding bebop scales in general. I´ve 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:

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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

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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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