E Mixolydian Bebop — C6 Pedal Steel
Every note of E Mixolydian Bebop as a bar position on the C6 neck's ten strings, pedals up — the root ringed each time it recurs, and a button that plays the run.
E Mixolydian Bebop is 8 notes to the octave (bebop family), drawn here across the C6 neck's ten strings with every E marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.
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 a pedal steel a scale is mostly played with the bar moving, one or two notes at a time, and the pedals supply the notes a bar position lacks. These maps show the neck with the pedals up, so what they light is the ground every pedal move starts from.
Work it in one position before you work it up the neck. A bar that lands a hair short of the marker sounds flat on every string it covers, and the ear hears that long before the run is fast.