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  • I accidentally taught myself this scale without knowing it was a Dorian. Woops:0

  • YOUR TELLIN ME YOU BUILT A TIME MACHINE....OUT OF A DORIAN??? LOL

  • Dorian is one of David Gilmour favorite scales. Also, Plo Koon, a fictional Keldor jedi master from the old republic era was from Dorion. he did not have scale

  • why in god's name it this the top hit for 'dorian scale'? how are these things rated, randomly or something?

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  • Easiest way to remember the dorian mode is it is built starting on the 2nd of a major scale ..that is it in a nutshell. The raised 6th is a nice tone that sets it apart from the relative minor.

  • Dorian mode is built like natural minor scale, except you have raised sixth degree. If you want to build A Dorian, just take A minor and raise it. A B C D E F G . F to F#. You get A Dorian. Now, does this [A B C D E F# G A] looks like something? Flip it a little you get E Minor/G Major. Every Dorian mode works like that (others as well). So, if you wanna play Dorian, just see which note is the fifth of the root, and play it's minor scale (A > E Minor; E > H minor; C > G minor etc)...

  • @TheUnforgivenGenius thanks for that correlation.i know also that in some cases you can use Fmaj/Dmin over Amin chord progressions.how does that relate and are there any other scale shapes that work over Amin(obviously Amin/Cmaj) and if so what is there correlation.then again not every Amin chord progression sounds good with Fmaj/Dmin scale shapes.whats up with that?

  • @calebsj Check your inbox :) Fmaj/Dmin over Am chord progression makes it A Phrygian. Same thing works with every mode. X phrygian = X's fourth note minor scale (in this case A/D). For E Phrygian it would be Amin/Cmaj scale...etc...

  • @calebsj Same's with other modes: Ionian = Root. Dorian = Fifth. Phrygian = Fourth. Lydian = major third. Mixolydian = nat. second. Aeolian = sixth. Locrian = minor seventh. So A Ionian = A maj/F#min, A Dorian = Emin/Gmaj, A Phrygian = Dmin/Fmaj, A Lydian = C#min/Emaj, A mixolydian = Bmin/Dmaj. A aeolian = Fmin/Amaj and A locrian = Gmin/A#maj. Hope u get it :)

  • his nervous twitching scares me

  • I'm a bit confused - no, I'm a lot confused! I thought there were 17 notes in that mode ( scale ). Why do some people teach just 15 - why not keep it standard? All comments appreciated.

  • Technically Dorian is a mode not a scale, similar,  yes but Dorian is a mode not a scale but depending on how you view it, it can be used as a scale but technically it is a mode

  • unsecure young teacher, wrong position of the guitar 

  • @lslboss

    You mean insecure?

  • A dorian is in the key of G, not A, unless you explicitly refer to a "modal key"

  • that is so true drooghound im an instructor and i say just jam

  • Yeah there are a lot of dangerous people around and a lot of them and 99 percent of the know it all 's are on You Tube and think they know everything about playing the guitar when their knowledge wouldn't fill up a thimble

  • What the fuck are these 3 awful mistakes that 99% of guitarists do???Can someone tell me?please!..

  • my name is dorian

  • @loliloliloliable i should hit you with a brick for saying that

  • Metal players are the guys who tend to focus on modes, Jazz players tend to place more emphasis on chords.

    In my experience, there are people who spend endless hours learning the modes in all positions, then have no idea how to use them, because they've bypassed chord knowledge (The one thing they're going to spend most of the time doing)

    A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

    There are lots of dangerous people around.

  • good demo

  • you dont need rules to make music

  • @skatedagger Unless your gonna go with John Cages 4min 33 I think one definite rule would be that there would have to be sound in the equation somewhere. :)

    From then on it gets progressively more structured right up to 4/4, 5/4 and such like. And thats considering electronic minimism right up to popular music.

    By the way... BO!!!!

  • Its funny , i learned how to play guitar before i learned what i was playing on the guitar . I had to teach myself when young now im learning exactly what each scale is called . I can play them all but never could tell youy what they were . This is good , thanks for the vid !

  • If you learn the seven modes it will connect the fretboard and you see how it all connects together...especially for bass guitar...it's super easy

  • isthere a technical name for blues scale if its different from dorian and Penta?

  • @44eelz 'the' blues scale :P

  • better than expert village .

  • @JIGZGTB Shit is better than expert village.

  • i'm horny

  • Good teaching and nice sound. I've learned something. Thanks. There's a lot of so-called self-proclaiimed teachers on YouTube, that are not teachers or players.

  • finally some useful lesson on how to combine all these three....tnx

  • excellent video...............

    

  • don't waste time trying to fugure it out, just learn the major and minor scale. you'll be on the same road. i am too a music teacher!

  • @sjphs I disagree. The dorian/blues/ and minor pentatonic are the backbone of almost all genres. It's the easiest thing to fall back on when playing, and it's very useful. That being said, you should learn your major scales, cause if you know your major scale, you already know all the modes. Cause A Dorian is just G Major; that's how people should be looking at the modes, rather than separate scales to learn.

  • @MrApocalyte man.. plz dude cus u know basic theory dont go out giving lessons.. you dont knowhat ur talking about.

  • @niggerfuckshitreborn up to a certain point i agree with you, but i have a music theory of my own... music theory is all based on natural feels you can figure out just with emotion; take SRV for example; he did not know theory. if what comes out sounds good thats the point. if you have to learn theory, good. if you can play by ear even better.

  • @mjbrslou1 what you are saying is illogical.. music theory is not based on natural feel.. music theory is the study of how music works.. meaning its as stale and straightforward as mathematics. SRV was a blues guitarist. he DID know theory.. the music theory required to pay the blues.. he just didnt venture further than that. if you learn theory and stop using your ear, bad. if you rely on your ear without learning theory, equally bad. if you learn theory and incorporate it with ur ear, good.

  • @niggerfuckshitreborn Really? Then tell me why I don't know what I'm talking about.

  • @MrApocalyte just stop embaressing urself .

  • @MrApocalyte I just used minor scales and made relation between mode and the given key in the same way you did with the major..it works as well :) But, if you know major, you know minor..it's all the same (A min = C maj, E min = G maj etc.)

  • @sjphs Yes, once you learn all the modes, then you can learn the blues easily. However, classical music theory doesn't even talk about linking blues (since the 6 note minor scale wasn't around) and dorian; it's not supposed to work! What I like doing as well is using the dorian and blues over the root chord, but switching to mixolydian over the 4th and 5th in a blues progression and with some songs I will form it into a dominant 7th arpeggio. I have 30-years of music theory experience BTW.

  • Omg you saved me man thanks a ton!!!!

  • oh well back to marty he is more interesting

  • @crookedhorns1 hahahaha

  • FUCK, THIS SHIT IS HARD!

  • yeah nice man very very nice

  • i love how he pronounces pentatonic... great lesson 

  • Guys, a good ear will help more than any theory in the world but that doesn't mean to say that theory isnt useful. It can really give you much more scope and ability to play with musicians from different backgrounds eg. Jazz.

    Buy Aurelia ear training software, it will improve your ear to amazing levels AND teach you theory at the same time.

  • I can't agree more with the ear part of what you say, some people are just so deaf they don't notice they are playing something annoying and terrible, or maybe they just don't care lol.

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  • Thanks man!!! Very helpful for me!!!!

  • Go check out Will Landrums site. He'll give you a tons of videos for free on how to improvise and play lead guitar. Just give him your e-mail address and you are ready to ROCK.

  • The simple fact is, if your a true musician, you will try to learn every aspect of your instrument. So you assholes that keep baggin on these guys for trying to share this shit need to take a chill pill. if you have a fucking problem with what they have to say then watch something else. quit being so narrow minded and have some respect for the guys that have learned this shit. Personally i wanna learn everything i can.

  • its too quiet

  • combination with chromatic scale will be awesome

  • great teacher. I learned. Very good. How ever. I do like to improvise. I don't know what the "scales, patterns are called" but I know what you are talking about. I am a self taught musician. I learned by ear and to me the most important thing is the Feelin' with out it there is nothing. I mean Elvis could have gotten great musician to record, however he chose those who had that Feelin' and that is what makes up great musicians.

  • i think learning this stuff only gets in the way if you let it. wut sounds good should be wut you play no matter the notes whether theyre apart of a scale or not. but learning the theory allows you to find the sounds your ear is looking for most of the time.

  • THATS MY MOTHAPHUCKEN NAME!!!!!

    lol this is awesome

  • try these chords over this, 5x555x, and when you change for dorian 5x455x

  • @83CAB83 i like ur chords

  • Just for fun I've put a Dorian backing track online for anyone to download and jam against. Just go and find my website and follow the links.

    Enjoy!

  • Information is correct in the video, Yes it is !! Key of G would be the ionian mode scale (major mode) so the second mode will be Dorian in A key (minor mode scale)

    Best Regards

    mariocouet

    Portugal

  • @mariocouet hi tere!

    the dorian mode it's the second degree of a major scale(ionian)so if you play a A dorian mode : A B C D E F# G you are in the key of G but you start the scale from the second degree (A)let's compare A dorian and key of A

    A B C D E F# G (A dorian mode )

    A B C# D E F# G#(key of A) so as yuo can see it's not in the key of A as it use the same notes of the key of G.this in a tonal contest,becouse i consider modes ant keys two different things.

    all the best

  • sorry man ! that's not in the key of A but it's the key of G ! to be correct it's: A dorian scale in the key of G.

  • mazzimus1, i can´t agree with you m8 !! Happens all the time lol To be in the key of G it would be the Ionian mode that is a Major one, so the second will be a minor one, the dorian mode of key A right !? Dorian scale in key of G will be : G A A# C D E F G Ionian = ( Major mode ) Dorian = (minor mode) All this info´s at the video are are correct. If ya want we can call it too the Ionian scale in the key of G, that is the Dorian scale mode of A key Best Regards mariocouet Portugal
  • wow that was helpfull in learning scales but sounded horrible

  • im a little curious but im a somewhat beginner (been playin for 5 months ok with chords and rhythm now) but i plan on playing classic rock southern rock and 80s metal style of guitar an im wonderin what other scales do i need to learn besides the pentatonic scale the blues scale and the major scale. and how long will it take me to learn them. also is there a name for a scale that involves finger tapping. mainly stuff like Eddie Van Halen?

  • codyjt5150: Eddie himself uses pentatonics all the time. Just master a couple of his tapping licks and you'll be able to create your own. There really isn't any specific scale for tapping. You can use any scale you want. For 80's metal, I would reccomend exotic stuff like Harmonic Minor and Phyrigian Dominant. However, it usually all comes down to pentatonics, modified or in its boxed form. Hope this helps!

  • about scales i dont know very much but 4 tapping u need to transposicionate tha notes

    ej: u have your pentatonic ad u will star to play it in the 12 fret E string ok? BUT all the notes u will be playing will be in tha same string then transpocionate it and vuala! you can play with that, hope it is usefull n:_:n

  • the major scale has all 5 main scales

  • the reason its important to know the difference is that once you know how modes work, you realize that there are several different tonalities to be had with only one scale. This opens up the scale to much more versatility. Calling the Dorian mode a scale rather than a mode is like saying there is only one tonality per scale, which is of course very wrong. Guitar players especially should know how they work because guitar players use them so often.

  • the only person on here who knows what they are talking about is cobracarg. The "major scale" is technically different than the "Ionian mode." It seems strange because they have the same notes, but what makes them different is that "mode" refers to the tonal center (tonic) of what you're playing, and scale refers to a sequence or pattern that you play in.

  • wtf it doesn't matter in which scale or which note exists or not exists in what scale... you just play whatever you feel you want....

  • ...Well said, i listened to Hendrix, he played what he felt, and didn't read music, it just works when you can feel it!

  • well the point of music is that you feel the music and make whatever you want with it :). If you can't feel it and just do it from raw intellectual view it's kinda ... uhm, it feels that's been forced to do, or it's not as musical as with-feeling-it-played-music :D. With every day there's more music done from an intellectual view which really sucks. Well myself I'm not 100% emotional with music, i have my own patterns, calculations in my head, but I try to be musically free as much as i can.

  • We're all brainwashed to some point, it's almost impossible to escape from it, so we're confined when trying to invent something new in music. For every coming generation of kids the art-making is going to be harder I guess.

  • Hendrix was self taught be he still knew Pentatonic,Ionian and even used Phrygian on HeyBabyNewRisingSun, im self taught but I know 5 modes

  • True....but there's nothing wrong with doing both. It's all about how your brain is wired. MY buddy Nick has a hell of a time playing without written music, but when he DOES have music in front of him, he's incredible. I hardly ever read music, and so have a hard time when I do read music, but I'm amazing when I play by ear. Sheet music is simply a means of communicating ideas...what's on the page is merely a suggestion. What makes the music awesome comes from the player's heart.

  • You are right! I started playing guitar athe age of 14. I didn' read, just by ear. In my late twentties I started to take guitar classes, just for the theory. Since then I kind of lost my hearing abilities. I rely now too much on the theory.

  • And you are an asshole!

  • Ok, asshole it is. you win!

  • to much tention here lentlemennnnnnnnnnnnnnn

  • @kazar77

    Well I HAVE one.

    So do you,if you are as you say,human.

  • It's all just part of the theory man. You can just drive a car for example. It just depends if you want to know how and why and what the car does, when it does it. Shit man.. I play more by feeling my self... but it does help to know a little theory.

  • Everything is in reference to the major scale anyway, especially in the western worlds music theory system, its all octave based. This video is fine

  • lol yeah, what's up with that... it's just major actually...

  • im sorry but you need to learn what the fuck your talking about before you post teaching vids online. All of you musically ignorant people out there listen up! DORIAN IS NOT A SCALE, its a MODE. there is a HUGE difference!

  • Nonsense.

    The terms "mode" and "Scale" are interchangeable. A scale is just a series of related notes.

  • thats nonsense... you dont know what you are talking about...you say that mode or scale are interchangeable and you'll get a big fat F in music school...

  • I AM a music teacher.

    Modes can be scales it's all how you view them.

    Is the Ionian a scale or a mode?

    The Am dorian used from Gmajor is a mode, used on its own (in the key of Am) it can be viewed as a type of minor scale with a 6th.

    Don't get too hung up on this shit, it gets in the way of playing music.

  • you just proved my point... Am dorian is different from a G major position.... just because they both have the same notes doesnt mean that they are the same thing.... let me give you an example...

    The Am pentatonic scale has exactly the same notes has a C major pentatonic....but they are not the same scale...

    the point i am trying to get across is that just because Am dorian has the same notes as a G major scale ... it doesnt mean they are interchangable

  • Of course they are.

  • no they are not... going the pentatonic example.... you you try to emphasize the G note if you are playing over the key of A...its going to sound like shit... so they are different

  • theres exceptions to the rule.

    having the same notes is prettymuch the same thing, Try useing the same notes of the

    star spangel Banner in different position

    & tell people you "wrote an Original" song

    it aint gonna Fly.

  • @drooghound I guess as long as you play the RIGHT notes it's all that matters, Am I right?

  • @drooghound well u sound like a good one. i thought myself guitar and i just make my own damned scales and it works way better then planning everything out. saves up a lot of study time too. since i never had a teacher. (i am a singer in a choire though. and thought myself various singing techniques. so that helps with harmony understanding)

  • @drooghound wtf does any of that mean????

  • @drooghound All you need i s a few tricks scales and alot of diffrent influences and you can play. Whether someone plays good or bad is a diffrent story.But yeah i agree you don't need to learn that many scales to be good like marty friedman says, you can find the shapes that suit your liking.

  • @drooghound I don't look at modes in terms of scales, I look at modes in terms of keys.

  • @drooghound i just play period i know the name of my strings that about it was playn over 8 hrs a day but not no more

  • @drooghound That's exactly how I view the Ionian versus the Dorian versus the Phrygian versus the Lydian scale shapes etc.

    Treat them as scales and you can finally see how to play them over certain chords.

    If you're just getting into this whole modal thing like I am, what's helping me out is All Guitar Chords, google the site, its friggin awesome, its got scales chords and everything you need.

    Anyway, forgive the plug but I'm actually understanding this shit now by treating them as scales.

  • @drooghound Thank you for posting some good info and some even better bottomline advice

  • @drooghound Well put. I am a guitar teacher as well and I couldn't agree with you more. People come to me thinking that if they don't understand everything about the modes, they will not be able to play lead guitar. I like theory a lot and I teach it every day but I always tell my students that too much theory and not enough feel will make them robots. Great comment. Thanks.

  • @drooghound Finally one person say that.

  • @drooghound

    that is incorrect.. each mode has its own tonal qualities which need to be spelled out whilst improvising to make it sound like the particular mode.so even if ur vamping over Am. u can flavour or build your solo based on qualities of the mode.. you could play A phrygian over it or A Dorian etc.. so if your learning modes you actually wanna learn the key sounds of what each mode sounds like..if u dont get hung up on learning these sounds your gonna sound as bad as every other dick

  • @shagg21

    Nothing you say condradicts anything I said.

    I did not say that modes did not have their own character, but most songs (even the most meathead metal song) have chord changes, if you don't understand how chords work you can never really suss modes out.

  • @drooghound Youtube -

    They Sold Their Souls For Rock And Roll

  • hell no. a scale is defined by the steps or halfsteps, a mode is not defined that way.

  • all modes are scales.

  • I teach music for a living, Dorian is a mode of the major scale, but a scale none the less. So everyone is half right; scale and mode are not interchangeable and the fact that dorian is a mode of another scale does not take away the fact that its a scale (its a variant of the major scale)

  • boring

  • You're a dumbass! Dorian has more notes and you're not playing the frickin patern right!

  • So now that i know how to play this shape of the dorian scale how am i suppost to move around the neckboard with this scale?

  • what ever key your in you play that shape in that key. So this guys is playing it in A as he says but lets say if you want to play it in B, then all your do is move this shape 2 fretts up which is where the B is. hope that helped.

  • yea it did thanks, but lets say your playing in key of A dorian scale and your getting tired of playing in that same position, how do you move around the fretboard? are there different shapes or can you only play that position aswell as an octave up?

  • yes you can play it an octave up and you can find the exact same notes somwhere else on the freettboard, but it wont necessarily be the same shape. same notes but not the smae shape. So instead of starting on the 5th fret for an A dorian scale. You can also use the open A string. same goes for B, G and every other note. If you have a C # and you are on the low E string then you can play the same scale on the 4TH frett A string (which is a C#)

    hope tht hepled too im very bad at explaingin things

  • The first thing you need to do is learn where the notes are on the fret board.

  • one way to look at it is this. For the ionian (major)scale, there are 7 basic shapes (one starting on each note) as you move up the neck. The Dorian scale is simply the second shape. So in D Dorian - its C major but D to D, not C to C. So this means to get the subsequent shapes in dorian, all you do is use the next one along. So the second position in dorian would be the 3rd position in ionian/major. You just have to remember which note you areusing as the root.

  • learn it in different positions.

  • E dorian is D major modes are just rotations of the major scale. E is the second scale degree of d major. Dorian starts on the second scale degree of a major scale .

  • in all honesty ur all wrong, if you would play that dorian mode in A ur just playing a major scale off a 4th instead of the normal route. for example E dorian mode IS A major. but its fun to play it with the petatonic scale of its 4th

  • E dorian is D major not A major

  • woops your right its a 4th above the root so it would be D, ive used it with A major scales before though but that would make sense too i guess cause A and D sound really good together

  • Actually it's the second

  • yes, its the A dorian scale in the parent key of G. notes are:

    ABCDEF#GA

    i can see how some people would be confused by the title "dorian scale (key of A)

  • IDIOT!!! its A lmfao... ppl like that are stupid!!!! (mesaboogiepower)

  • its A dorian, but it shares the same notes as G major. its the same thing as playing G maj but starting on the 2nd scale degree (A)

  • that is too A his root is the 5th fret which=A

  • yeah, keep your fingers in shape!

    keep them warm, stretch them!

  • A dorian is in the key of G pal....;)

  • very nice lesson :) thanks!

  • Ur working out of g not a with that dorian

  • baaaah .. "looks real baad..." Give some construcive criticism, when you can´t do this.. the guitar player cant do anything with such a damn comment....

  • ur left hand techneque looks real bad

  • it looks like that cuz he wants you to see what note he is hitting....dumb ass your moms ciriusus on her ass looks alot worse trust me

  • umm, totaljerk, yeah i take it u play also, just a guess, u suck aswel, and yea, and yea thats a funny time to say sumthing bout my mum u cyberpussy, bu im not gonna shit on ur level, just knowing that ud never actually say that to my face u coward makes me laugh enough faggot

  • this position is shit, it doesnt even flow properly with your fingers, if u wanna teach the foundation of these scales, do it properly

  • How about you post a better one. I'm sure you could, you did a good job with your one video. Just don't criticize until you've got something to show him up.

  • i dont need to post some video on youtube to prove my point, if u tried the pattern i actually teach in a music school you'd probably agree that it works better for a beginner...

  • dorian is like in a minor mode, like its contains alot of flats and or something like that, cause this is the one thing that confuses me about scales

  • the only thing that makes a scale minor is if the 3rd note in the scale is a half step flatter than it would be in the major scale.

  • alright thank you

  • As far as the natural minor scale goes, you need both a flat third AND a flat seven.

  • And a flat six.

  • "This is the dorian scale ,,, this is a minor scale..." wtf? So is it dorian or minor (aeolinan)? Dude, get you music theory straight!!!

  • Dorian is a MINOR SCALE With MAJOR 6...

  • if you don't know, there are major and minor modes, and the dorian scale is a minor mode, and this works with any Xm7 chord...

  • He means that you use the scale in a minor chord progression although dorian works in both. Like mixolydian and lydian are major scales and phrygian is minor. This scale is minor because he's mixing it with the minor pentatonic scale and it thus works over an a minor chord progression.

  • you dumbass haha dorian IS a MINOR scale

  • He means the 3rd note in the dorian mode is a flat 3rd, so its minor in tonality.

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  • this guy sounds like Ren from Ren and Stimpy

  • key of what?

    a major? or a minor?

    it is not in the key of a..it is in key of g major.that's why it is called dorian mode..

    and from the pentatonic scale,just add a b5 to become a blue scale..

    hey man you better study music theory..

  • I think he means the A dorian scale; not the parent key of A. You're right though. A Dorian's parent key is G.

  • He did make a simple mistake, but he did say i what key it was in because an a minor scale is in the key of a minor. Scale and key mean the same thing. He does need to study a bit though.

  • nice lession thx ...

  • It's in the mode of A dorian but the Key signature is G major.

  • people people....come now. aruging over the internet is kinda like being in the special olympics,even if you win your still a fucking retard.

  • diiiiiiiick lol

  • hahahaha thats fucked up dude hahaha

  • cool you watched "the 12 fuck you's of youtube" and quoted forfun808

    you're cool now

  • look whos a fucking retard

  • and to answer your question supernub93.....yes your parents will still be brother and sister when they get devorcied

  • to funny, i will use this quote from now on on dumb ass blogs and what not

  • Key of Amin is nothing but C....so D dorian, I thinks people are confused with Amaj where the Dorian would be B dorian

  • well dorian in the key of A minor starts on D Right?the dorian would be the c major scale starting at the second note in C major being D.you started on A.and C majors relative minor key is A minor

  • Wow...

    I was halfway through the video when DeepSea - Whatever his name is - put his comment up. I swear, you're so arrogant. I've never seen anybody as stupid as you. It actually humors me to read someone say they're "Cool" when they can't even put together a complete sentence. Good luck in life.

    P.S. Video helped alot. =)