Shí-èr-lǜ Shí-èr-lǜ Shí-èr-lǜ (, , "12 pitches") (twelve-pitch scale) was a standardized gamut of twelve notes. Also known, rather misleadingly, as the Chinese chromatic scale, it was one kind of chromatic scale used in ancient Chinese music. The Chinese scale uses the same intervals as the Pythagorean scale, based on 2:3 ratios (8:9, 16:27, 64:81, etc.). The gamut or its subsets were used for tuning and are preserved in bells and pipes. Unlike the Western chromatic scale, the shí-èr-lǜ was not used as a scale in its own right; it is rather a set of fundamental notes on which other scales
Bebop scale as the bebop minor scale) is derived from the Dorian mode and has a chromatic passing tone between the minor 3rd and the perfect 4th. \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { </score> It has all the notes in both the Dorian scale and the Mixolydian scale of the same root. It is the 5th mode of the bebop dominant scale. A second form of the bebop Dorian scale features a major seventh bebop note between the dominant seventh and the tonic. \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { </score> The second style, featuring the major seventh, is