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Visualizing the Fretboard - Dorian Scale Application

Instructor: Tom Quayle Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

Tutorial: Visualizing the Fretboard - Major Scales and Modes

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Lesson Excerpt: So here's our first modal scale - dorian. Dorian is the second mode of the major scale and in the key of G starts on the note A. We'll start our scale on the 5th fret of the low E string. If you look at the diagram below you'll see that the scale starts on the second of our fingering no.3's (yellow dots) followed by three fingering no.1's (red dots) and then two fingering no.2's (green dots). Remember that fingering no.1 is always followed by f...
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