Scale (music) scale is often used. In jazz, many different modes and scales are used, often within the same piece of music. Chromatic scales are common, especially in modern jazz. In Western music, scale notes are often separated by Equal temperament tones or semitones, creating 12 intervals per octave each separating two tones where the higher tone has a oscillation frequency of a fixed ratio (by a factor equal to the twelfth root of two, or approximately 1.059463) higher than the frequency of the lower one. A scale uses a subset consisting typically of 7 of these 12 as scale steps. Other
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