Lap Steel Fills With E Dorian Bebop

E Dorian Bebop runs 8 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's CEGACE neck with every E marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes 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.

A lap steel fill glides between the singer's lines, often on two strings at once, so a scale here marks the frets where the bar may come to rest — the glide carries the line, and the scale keeps every landing note inside the song's key.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in E and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.