In this week’s Audio Premium content, Toby Pitman starts a new series of premium guitar tuts with an in-depth look at how you can use the Dorian mode in your playing. He looks at how the mode is constructed, and how you can play arpeggio-based runs built on the Dorian Mode and Dominant Pentatonic Scale.
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The Dorian mode is a well used scale in most genres based around Rock, Blues and Jazz as well as featuring in Celtic and Folk styles. You might say it’s pretty popular!
In the tutorial I’m going to show you how you can get a lot more out of this scale by looking at how it’s constructed and using that information to play lines that are based around it’s arpeggios instead of just running up and down the scale. Well also look at some alternative Pentatonic ideas that aren’t generated by the root note of the scale. This is sometimes referred to as Pentatonic Substitution.
We’ll also take a look at the Dominant Pentatonic scale and how we can incorporate this into the Dorian Mode. Some of these ideas are technically quite advanced so you’ll need to warm up those fingers before we get started!
Here’s the kind of music you’ll be able to create once you harness the knowledge inside:
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Table of Contents
- How Is The Dorian Mode Constructed
- Extracting The Harmonized Information
- Understanding The Parent Scale
- Generating The Chords Of A Mode
- Breaking Down The Chords
- Arpeggio Ideas (6 Examples)
- Going Beyond Root Note Pentatonics
- Pentatonic Ideas
- Dominant Pentatonics
- Why It’s So Cool!!!
- Conclusion
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