Harmony note (in this case B, D and F) provide the harmony. In the musical scale, there are twelve pitches. Each pitch is referred to as a "degree" of the scale. The names A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are insignificant. The intervals, however, are not. Here is an example: As can be seen, no note always corresponds to a certain degree of the scale. The "tonic", or 1st-degree note, can be any of the 12 notes (pitch classes) of the chromatic scale. All the other notes fall into place. For example, when C is the tonic, the fourth
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