Chromatic harmonica as well as many others, to be played–a benefit for various musical styles. Another tuning is minor tuning for natural and harmonic minor Im and IIdim normal position. Chromatic harmonica The chromatic harmonica is a type of harmonica that uses a button-activated sliding bar to redirect air from the hole in the mouthpiece to the selected reed-plate desired. When the button is not pressed, an altered diatonic major scale of the key of the harmonica is available, while depressing the button accesses the same scale a semitone higher in each hole. Thus, the instrument is capable of playing the 12
Bebop scale by modern practitioners of the bebop genre). The bebop dominant scale is derived from the Mixolydian mode and has a chromatic passing tone between the 7th and the root. \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { </score> It has all the notes in both the major scale and the Mixolydian scale of the same root. This scale is often used over dominant seventh chords and all extended dominant chords, and the II-V chord progressions. According to Michael Miller, "[w]hen someone says they're playing 'the bebop scale,' this is the one they're talking about." The bebop Dorian scale (also known