C Dorian Bebop — E9 Pedal Steel
Every note of C Dorian Bebop as a bar position on the E9 neck's ten strings, pedals up — the root ringed each time it recurs, and a button that plays the run.
C Dorian Bebop is 8 notes to the octave (bebop family), drawn here across the E9 neck's ten strings with every C marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.
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 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.