7 Advanced Ways to Practice Bebop Scales

What Will You Learn in This Lesson?

In this lesson, you’ll learn one of those tricks that sounds far more complicated than it actually is.
While the right hand plays a dominant bebop scale, the left hand shifts its voicings a half step up or a half step down.

To the listener, it sounds like advanced scale substitutions.
In practice, the right hand never changes.

Seven exercises will take you through the technique step by step.
But once you have it, start exploring:

Will you move only half a step up and back?
Both directions in one line?
Half step up, immediately half step down, then resolve?
How often will you shift outside?
How long will you stay there before coming back?

The options are limitless.

When Are You Done With This Lesson?

You’re done when you can play through all seven exercises as easily as
playing a C major scale up and down with a basic C major triad.