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 Harris. Ben-Hur further elaborates on the concept of placing additional chromatic passing tones between other notes in the scales. The bebop harmonic minor scale (or bebop natural minor scale, as listed in Mark Levine's "The Drop 2 Book") is derived from the harmonic minor scale and has a chromatic passing tone (an additional 7) between the 6th and the 7th notes. \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { </score> It contains all of the notes of both the harmonic minor scale and the natural minor scale (Aeolian mode) of the same root. It can be used on all three