Re: blues and bebop scales

Its wonderful that so many scales have so many common names!

The bebop scale I learned was not the symmetric whole-half
(or half-whole) scales (which we called 'diminished') but
rather

C D E F G G# A B C

or a minor version

A B C D E F G G# A

Its aactually very useful for arrangers, since between each
four note voicing, there is a passing diminished seventh.
(Voice a C6 and play the scale in parallel, just inversions
of C6 and passing diminished chords).

Its an interesting trick to play on lots of seven note scales.

Oh, the blues scale as I learned it was a litle bigger than
the minor pentatonic

C Eb F F# G Bb B C.

Bob Valentine