To build a bebop castle, start by arpeggiating a chord 1, 3, 5, 7 and then play whatever chromatic notes in between the notes sound good leading to them. If you approach them from below, you have 4 half step notes, giving you 8 notes to choose from....(approach from above)..4 more half step notes. Now you could also approach the 4 notes from a whole step above or below, giving you eight more notes. for a total of 20 to choose from. So there are more than 12 notes when you start thinking about how notes lead to each other. And at that point u're no longer just dealing with the notes, but the FUNCTION of the note.
(Basically if there are 20 notes to choose from and there are really only 12 notes in the chromatic scale...it means you can pretty much start on ANY note as long as you resolve it correctly! The key is to have the changes so well memorized that you can start on any note and resolve to the right chord tones/scales/arppegios according to the underlying harmony and where its going. There are no wrong notes! The genius of Bebop. - Ed)
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