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Scale Patterns for Guitar
21 Bebop Scale Patterns for

Guitar
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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, Ive compiled 21 different patterns that you can
use to practice Bebop Scale fingerings on the guitar, most of which
come from David Bakers 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.
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 youll be able to expand your
improvisations exponentially.
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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 well start
on the root and explore more as you go.
Read more about this technique in my article Bebop Vocabulary:

Enclosures
2: Enclosed Fifth
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.
As well, there are specific patterns that can only be applied to the
3rd and 7th, that well see below, so enclosing the root and 5th is a
great place to start at this point in time.
3: Enclosed Root and Fifth

Since youve 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),
youre extending your melodic ideas without getting complicated.
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
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
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 didnt 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.
6: Enclosed 3rd With Double

Chromatic Approach
Up to this point, youve 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.
7: Enclosed 3rd with Double

Chromatic Approach and 3 to b9
Arpeggio
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
youre 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.
8: 3 to b9 Arpeggio (Diminished
Arpeggio from 3rd)
Since youve been pairing it up with the enclosures, lets 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.
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 havent 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.
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

Since youve been looking at straight 8th-note patterns so far, lets

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
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 youve descended the scale from the top note on
down. Now, lets 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.
This is a cool way to play the Bebop Scale without adding or

altering any diatonic notes, just starting on a note that isnt 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
guitarists 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
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.
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.
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.
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

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, well 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.
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.
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.
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.
Jos Arboleda says:
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Excelent lesson.,great man
September 5, 2012 at 2:33 pm

1.
Matthew Warnock says:
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Thanks Jose, glad you dug it!

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, theyre good all
around
June 5, 2011 at 10:20 pm

3.
Olmon says:
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Thanks, Im 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)?
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-addingchromatics-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
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 ones playing.
July 5, 2011 at 9:36 am
5.
David Henderson says:
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is there a link somewhere to Jon Bremens 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/guitarresources/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-guitartechniques-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 havent had any Jazz Guitar students for
over five years so I havent 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
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Matt Warnock says:
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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!

8.
Russell says:
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thanks a million for this Matt,it cleared up a lot for me,its a lot
of info so itll 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. Its 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.
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Thanks Eric, glad youre 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 didnt enclose the root after
ascending the 3 to b9 arp. Was that deliberate? Im 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?
Thanks,
Jeff
June 10, 2012 at 4:02 am

1.
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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
1.
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For sure, you can add as many of these into your lines
as you want, when Im 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. Its all
good!
June 10, 2012 at 9:01 am

12.
Tom L says:
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I dont suppose you could do bass clef version of this lesson

could you? would be massively appreciated!

1.
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Hey i havent done any hass stuff on my site yet, might

have to check that out.

1.
Tom L says:
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Well what your doing is useful and insightful, I

may not be a solo/virtuoso bass player but itd be
nice not to read your lessons a 3rd away ;)

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
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 thats part of the style?
February 14, 2013 at 2:54 am

1.
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Thats 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.
Reply
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. Im a piano player, but couldnt 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! Ive had
problems playing a tune like Speak Low but I think this page is
the answer Ive been looking for. Thanks Matt
March 23, 2013 at 7:13 pm

1.
Reply
Thats great Joe, glad the article is helpful and translates

well to the piano. Enjoy the site!
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 clearexcellent work.
My question is regarding bebop scales in general. Ive 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
get those sounding organically in your playing than

worrying about where you put chord tones and nonchord 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

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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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21 Bebop Scale Patterns for

Before you dive in to these patterns, check out my article on Bebop

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Bebop Scale Patterns for Guitar

Read more about this technique in my article Bebop Vocabulary:

3: Enclosed Root and Fifth

All you are doing is adding in the enclosure, or other Bebop

4: Enclosed Root with 3 to b9

5: Enclosed Fifth with 3 to b9

Here is a variation on that same concept, although instead of

6: Enclosed 3rd With Double

7: Enclosed 3rd with Double

9: 7(b9/b13) With b7 to b13

10. Triplet with Enclosed Root

Since youve been looking at straight 8th-note patterns so far, lets

11: Triplet off Third with b9

12: Starting from b7

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

13: Chromatic Triplet from 3rd

15: Chromatic Down from Third

16: Ascending IIm7 Arpeggio

17: Descending IIm7 Arpeggio

18: Ascending Diversion from

motive is a very common phrase used by Bebop and Hardbop

19: Ascending Diversion from

20: 1-2-3-5 From Flat Seven

The idea is to take a four note chromatic pattern, C-B-Bb-A, and

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36 Responses to "21 Bebop Scale

Drew Engman says:

Nice set of exercises and variations, very usable right out of

June 5, 2011 at 10:10 pm

Jos Arboleda says:

Excelent lesson.,great man

September 5, 2012 at 2:33 pm