These are 5 note scales, of which there are many, however only two are common in jazz and I will refer to them as the major and minor pentatonic. The major pentatonic is the sam… See more

The chromatic scale consists of all twelve notes available in conventional western music, i.e. all the white notes and black notes of the keyboard ex 11e: Chromatic scale We s… See more

This scale consists of alternating intervals of a tone and a semitone (ex 11g-1). Another way of looking at it is to imagine two diminished chords, one a whole tone higher tha… See more

As the name implies this scale consists of whole tones (ex 11k). It is useful over a dominant 7th, especially a dominant 7th with an augmented 5th. (same note as b13th). Th… See more

There are many Arabic scales but one in particular is used by western composers to imply a middle eastern flavour. This scale can be thought of as a “relative mode” of the harmon… See more