What do you get when you go through all the other scales in a pile on the floor?<\/p>\n
What do you get when you include everyone, and leave no one out?<\/p>\n
And what do you get when you take every step?<\/p>\n
The chromatic scale includes all the notes. If we play up each fret of a string, we\u2019ve played a chromatic scale.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s from the chromatic scale that all other scales<\/a> in western music emerge. We choose what to omit, and that creates new scales.<\/p>\n In layman\u2019s terms, a chromatic scale is all the notes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Officially, the chromatic scale is a twelve-tone scale starting on a root note and moving by half-steps only. In layman\u2019s terms, this means all the notes.<\/p>\n