Chromatic scale Chromatic scale The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches. As a result, in 12-tone equal temperament (the most common temperament in Western music), the chromatic scale covers all 12 of the available pitches. Thus, there is only one chromatic scale. Moreover, in equal temperament, all the semitones have the same size (100 cents). As a result, the notes of an equal-tempered chromatic scale are equally-spaced. This makes the chromatic scale a nondiatonic scale with no tonic because of the symmetry of its equally-spaced notes. The ascending and descending
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