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 … 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