G# Mixolydian Bebop on the Flamenco Guitar
Where G# Mixolydian Bebop lies on the fretboard of a guitar tuned EADGBE, and how a flamenco passage lands it on the count.
G# Mixolydian Bebop runs 8 notes to the octave, laid across an EADGBE fretboard with every G# marked — the pitch a phrase keeps coming home to.
Mixolydian with a passing major 7th between the b7 and the octave — the bright, bluesy dominant sound with a chromatic slide that keeps every chord tone on a downbeat. Slick, swinging, and quintessentially bebop.
Heard in: Jazz lines over dominant seventh chords, blues changes, and rhythm changes — the workhorse bebop scale.
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.