And then he, at the top of it-- switched over into a chromatic scale.

然后,在顶端,转换到了半音音阶

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Entire compositions are rarely written in the chromatic scale.

整篇的作品很少全部用半音音阶构成

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Well, that's a chromatic scale.

这个,它是一个半音音阶

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We also have scales in the chromatic mode and that's when we don't have just seven pitches within the scale.

我们也了解了半音调式中的音阶,也就是没有正好七个音高的,那种音阶

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