B Dorian Bebop on Vihuela

B Dorian Bebop runs 8 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's A–D–G–B–E fretboard with every B marked, because what a player needs mid-number is not the pattern but where the root is when the harmony moves under it.

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.

The armonía is not a soloing section, so a scale here is diagnostic rather than melodic: it is how a player finds which tones a grip is actually putting in the air on a neck whose octaves do not run in order.

Take it slowly against the playback until the geometry stops being geometry, then put it under a number in B major or minor and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.