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What is Dorian mode piano?
Dorian Mode. The Dorian Scale, or mode, is the second of the seven modes. The Dorian modes are comparable to the Major scales – D Dorian, for example, includes exactly the same notes as C Major. ... A famous song in D Dorian mode is “Scarborough Fair”.
What is the Dorian scale pattern?
Modern Dorian mode
or any transposition of its interval pattern, which has the ascending pattern of whole steps and half steps as follows: whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half, whole. Thus, the Dorian mode is a symmetric scale, since the pattern of whole and half steps is the same ascending or descending.
What is Dorian mode good for?
The Dorian mode is commonly used to solo over minor 7th chords, applicable to the ubiquitous II–7 V7 I progression, and a creative substitute, or expansion, of the minor pentatonic scale used in blues and rock.
