B Dorian Bebop on the Flamenco Guitar
Where B Dorian Bebop lies on the fretboard of a guitar tuned EADGBE, and how a flamenco passage lands it on the count.
B Dorian Bebop runs 8 notes to the octave, laid across an EADGBE fretboard with every B marked — the pitch a phrase keeps coming home to.
Dorian with a chromatic passing tone slipped between the b3 and the 4 — eight notes, so chord tones keep landing on the strong beats in a run of eighth notes. Cool, flowing, and swinging.
Heard in: Bebop and straight-ahead jazz lines over minor seventh chords — Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Barry Harris approach.
On the flamenco guitar a scale is the raw material of the falseta — a composed melodic passage the guitarist drops between sung verses — and of the runs a toque answers the cante with.
Whatever notes a passage runs through, it is measured in compás: it sets off and comes to rest where the count of the palo allows, so every scale here is finally heard against a cycle of accents.