G Dorian Bebop — Tenor Guitar

G Dorian Bebop is 8 notes per octave (bebop family), drawn here as position boxes on the Tenor Guitar's CGDA grid with the root flagged in each — learn one box deeply, then let the overlaps carry you into the next.

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.

Fifths spread each scale wider per string than a standard guitar — fewer notes per position, longer reaches, and patterns that repeat cleanly across every string pair.

Play each box top to bottom until the roots feel like home base, then practice crossing between boxes mid-phrase — neck freedom is exactly that crossing, nothing more.