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Dorian Mode

Lesson 23 from: Music Theory Essentials: Chords, Scales and Modes

Tomas George

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23. Dorian Mode

<b>In this lesson, you will learn about the Dorian mode.</b>
Next Lesson: Phrygian Mode

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Dorian Mode

OK. So next is Dorian, which is the second mode. It's the second mode because we actually play the major scale on the second notes and that has now become the root notes. So in C major, the easiest way to think of the Dorian scale is to pick the second note, which is the second note here. D and this will become D Dorian. So it's the same notes as C major, just shifting the root note. So down here, we start on D and then we finish on D. Another way to actually think of these modes is to adapt the major or the minor scale. So right here I have ad major written out and to turn this D major into Ad Dorian, there's a little pattern that we need to remember and that is flatten the third and flatten the seventh. So if we flatten this f sharp to an F which is the third and if we count up 4567, we flatten this C# to ac this will create Ad Dorian scale. So you can probably hear already. It sounds a little bit different to a major scale and also different to a minor scale. And another way of thin...

king of the D Dorian scale is to actually adapt the minor scale. So here I've written out ad minor scale and we can adapt the D minor scale into ad Dorian scale by just sharpening the six. So the sixth is this B flat sharpen this to A B and this becomes Ad Dorian scale. You can see it on the keys up here. It's just the white notes. So that is a Dorian scale and that's how you can create D Dorian. This works with any of the scales though not just C major. So here we have G major and we can turn this into G Dorian by a couple of different ways. One way is we can actually flatten the third and flatten the seventh of this major scale to create a G Dorian scale or the other way is to actually think of it as the second note of the scale. So G Dorian, if you think of this, of the second note, so this note here there J this is the second of this one here. F so the notes in F major are FGAB flat CD ef So if you look at this scale here, all we're doing is playing the notes of F major starting on A G. So that will be uh gab flat CD efg. So we could change this B to A B flat and this F sharp to an F and This is Ge Dorian. So what we did there is played an F major starting RG or we can just flatten the third. So we change this B to a B flat. So when they say flattened or sharpen, I'm just talking about one semitone and we can actually flatten the seventh as well because this was an F sharp, flatten it to an F and this is now G Dorian. So it works in any scale. And that's what a Dorian mode is. So that's how you can work out. D Dorian. And next, let's have a look at frig.

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