Learn some basics of modal scales with our lesson on Dorian mode. You’ve probably heard of modes, even if you don’t know what they are. The basics are very simple: play the major scale but don’t start ...

The seven main categories of mode have been part of musical notation since the middle ages. So, the list goes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. Some of them are major ...

Modes can be intimidating if you´ve never used them before, but Alex makes the Dorian mode a lot less daunting by relating it to the more friendly E minor pentatonic scale - there are just two extra ...

Start on D and you're playing the second mode (D Dorian, as it happens). By the time you get to A you're on the sixth step of ...

The ancient Greeks built their music around a series of modes, or scales, one of which was the Dorian mode. The students who formed the Dorian Singing Society at Luther College took the name of this ...