of the major scale. So, if i take C major, most of have heard this: Do Re Mi Fa So La

Ti Do. [plays scale] If I start that from the second note [plays scale], that gives

me a slightly different pattern. It's all the same notes but it's starting on second.

I can move this to the tenth fret and play the exact same group of notes.

By the way, if you're not familiar with these scales, there is a HowCast video on scales

and beginning guitar lesson so you might want to refer to that.

I'm here among the tenth fret and I'm playing the Dorian notes. And I can play that in tenth

octaves [plays scale]. This mode works great over the D minor chord. If you're going to

throw in additional chords, one possibility is G major. Now that's a very common sound

and you'll hear that in songs by Santana, The Doors, Light my Fire, is very somewhere

that's like a D minor moving up the solo section Down in the Hole by Alice in Chains. For Whom

the Bell Tolls by Metallica has guitar patterns that were Dorian.

What I'm going to do right now is play a little bit Dorian. My rhythm is going to be D minor

to C to G. And I'm going to stay on the tenth fret and I'm going to combining the Dorian

mode. Which is these notes. With the pentatonic. So minor pentatonic goes great with the Dorian

mode. It just a five note pattern. So I might play some pentatonic licks and then throw

in notes from the Dorian. For example. That's pentatonic. If I through in this note, little

one fret bend. That's Dorian. So ultimately I want to combine those. So I'm going to play

along right now and try to bring some of those ideas together.

[plays guitar]

And one final thing to keep in mind: The Dorian has a raised six. And what I mean by that

is if you play a natural minor, you get this [plays guitar]. So notice the sixth note is

here. When you play Dorian, the sixth note is raised. So you get this [plays guitar].

And that's it. I hope you've enjoyed this lesson on the Dorian. Have fun.