Anything pertaining to Melodic Minor? Guthrie Govan and Tom Quayle use it a lot, I think it has two tritones too so lot of tensions. Might be interesting?
Your lessons have opened a few doors for me that would have remained closed. Naturally being drawn to rhythm guitar. Has made it very difficult to learn lead. For me anyway. Thank you for making that a possible goal now.
Hello Ben, I consider myself an advanced player, but I want to give you a big shout out, I always learn something new from you. In this case, new licks that sound killer in the Dorian mode. Next time could you do a lesson just like this one on the Phrygian scale and show us how to incorporate some new tasty licks into that scale. Or even the Aeolian scale. Much respect Ben!!! ☺
Amigo - you are such a good teacher. I've learned the modes but never really felt a desire to use them. This simple and clear explanation really shows how we can use them to add spice and fluidity to licks, runs, that we are already useing. Really opens things up. Thanks UB!
One of my top "go to" channels. It's as entertaining as it is educational. I've been a lead player for years but I was stuck in the pentatonic boxes for over a decade. I started learning major scales but ran into a new problem. I couldn't make major scales sound musical because I was shackled by my old way of thinking strictly in terms of shapes. It's kind of like the 3 dimensional cubes we all used to draw. You can see it protruding either in or out of the page but never both at the same time. This was how I viewed scales. Once I learned that I didn't need to discard pentatonic scale but simply learn were to add extra notes, it really opened a lot of things up for me. And your channel has helped a lot with that.
I feel like a blind man in a JAIL CELL? Uncle B? You have opened my eyes 👀 on this lesson ! By adding the Dorian notes to the harmonic minor scale? I have escaped from the JAIL CELL/ Penetonic boxes!!! Definitely, more FLAVOR and TASTIER licks!! With the 4 note turn around!!!!! You, the MAN!!!!!
I'm a complete noob, and a lot of the things you talk about go right past me, but it's still great. I've been watching a lot of basic guitar playing videos, and yours are not just the clearest but the most directly relevant to what I need.
Andrew Gray I started a year and half ago ! Keep doing what you are doing and paying attention even if it’s over your head. It works, thats I what I did and still do every day. Make A playlist and add your favorite videos and then go back in a year watch them again. It will show you how much you have learned. Good luck ! Stick with it , it’s worth it ! Trust me .
Thanks for putting this out there, dude. I’ve been playing and writing music since 1990 (crap, I’m old) and have never touched theory. But I do appreciate how much this can help open up different pathways in your mind, and of course, on the fretboard.
Great approach to playing a Dorian scale while maintaining your picking fluidity. Thanks! I have only been playing since 1969 and that tidbit of info never dawned on me.
Dude what a lesson! There is so much stuff in here that I can apply to my playing especially the mixing of 3 notes an 2 note patterns. Thank you for the content. P.S. Dead and Lovely rules.
Hey Ben! I want to leave a huge Thank You here. About two years ago, I bought myself a guitar and started teaching myself the basic chords and as time went on, I progressed a bit and or over one and a half years, I plateaued at the level camp fire guitarist. I had no idea how to teach myself beyond the very basics because I really didn't know where to look. To get your questions answered, you need to have enough of an idea to even be able to ask a question. Sadly, I now still consider myself a beginner at guitar but music theory wise intermediate, I'd say. Meaning I know a lot of theory and the only thing I need to find as input are sometimes the connections between theory and what I see when I watch people playing. About two months ago I discovered your channel and man! it's a gold mine. since then, I've learnt so much more than in the two years before. The biggest chunk for me is putting in the effort - which sometimes means counting frets - and getting it all into practice. I'd be so so thankful if you ( for half a second) showed the tabs for the chords you play in some examples. That would help me to get the most out of your lessons. Thanks so much! You're a hero! Greetings from Germany
Thank you for this... I've been playing on and off for a few years and I started getting bored. I noticed that I'd also get tripped up with the "odd" number of hits on a string. That tip was especially important. Good video!
Dorians a nice refreshing break from Aeolian!!! Very similar, Locrian too is minor heaven ;) Good to learn all 7-modes though, people forget all the different scales, just learn the modes then you can master the fretboard!!!
Excellent way of seeing the dorian mode....i use the first thing you said. Using the 3 note per string major scale but 2 frets down....good to see another way..👍🎸💥🔥
Wow! This is the kind of lesson typical RUclipsrs and instructors leave in the “members only” section . Thank you so much learned so many things I can immediately practice and apply as intermediate guitar learner. Liked , subbed !
Uncle Ben, this may sound lame, but it’d be mighty cool to see a lesson on how to practice using odd time signatures with a metronome. I can’t seem to wrap my head around the concept. You have a knack for taking complicated things and making them easy to understand. Thanks for all you do for aspiring guitar players 🤘🏻
I had a lot of guitar teachers...but Ben is the teacher I never had but I wished I had. I'm mostly self taught and lately I've been watching all of Ben's videos and I feel like I'm being taught by someone. Ben, are you my teacher technically?😂
Funny thing is, this is so easy to adjust for all other modes. Every mode has a certain pattern inside the double minor third section of the minor or major pentatonic scale. Once you learn them all, you can just dip into whichever mode you want by adding in those two notes of the mode when passing through that section. What’s more, every pentatonic box has that double minor third section in it somewhere, making the modes easily accessible everywhere on the neck.
My mind is blown. For years I was playing Am pentatonic and then I added these extra notes and they sounded good. The extra notes I added were the notes you have in your diagram. Then later I realised the extra notes I was playing really made what I was playing a G major, but no I find I have been playingin the Dorian mode for years without knowing LOL
Thank you Ben for another fantastic video...I'm learning more from you on RUclips than I did from reading a stack of books over 30 years - and am adding you to my Patreon! I noticed that the C#m Pentatonic lays over this and fills in all of the notes that are not shaded. I'm going to look at this closer, but there's a clear relationship between the two. B Dorian = Bm + C#m
Hey Ben, I have a crazy "riff you could never figure out" for you. It's from Mentally Blind by Death, it's the riff at 2:24 . It's such a mad riff, and that reminds me of those videos about those riffs from The Frayed Ends of Sanity or Fight Fire With Fire that everyone would have a hard time figuring out
Had a guitar teacher many (35) years ago tell me that whenever your learn a new chord, scale, mode or whatever.. assign it an emotional value word. My emotion word for the Dorian Mode was "Snake Charmer".. or the Carlos Santana mode..
Thanks Ben, I had to watch this video 3 times because I couldnt stop thinking about the bubbles of Santana. I stopped to write you a message, to pass some time, in hopes of dissapating the misconceptual processing of my olfactory system. (Santana did not fart and I can not smell it, it's not possible).
EVERYDAY, ME: Let's watch one of Ben's videos while I 'm doing some warm-up exercises... After 5 - 10 minutes: "Wow, what is he doing there? Interesting!" ...aaaand there goes the warm -up...
This by far is a fantastic lesson Ben. The 4 note groupings for better picking transitions just blew me away and gave me a lot to think about in my own playing. Can't hit your speeds yet tho this gem you added will surely help. I can't thank you enough!!! Btw on you page you asked things we would like to see you teach. I feel some vids on ideas of how to mix modes would be fantastic and we get to hear more of those hilarious jokes!!!
Nice video! How cool is it that the Dorian scale is just hanging out like that in the pentatonic? I’m gonna jump on the band wagon and recommend Harmonic Minor.. thanks again Uncle Ben..
When I first started learning theory and scales, I thought Dorian was one of the more "boring" scales. Eventually it became one of my favorites, especially playing off the tension between the 6 and 7 notes when bending up from the 6 to 7... digging in slowly and feeling it... I hope that makes sense (I'm not as eloquent as Ben LOL).
![DORIAN SCALE - The 2nd mode of Major [MUSIC THEORY]](/img/1.gif)
Thanks for learning everything you need to know about the Dorian mode with me! What do you want me to cover next?
Anything pertaining to Melodic Minor? Guthrie Govan and Tom Quayle use it a lot, I think it has two tritones too so lot of tensions. Might be interesting?
Ben Eller dude thanks for this.. it helps tremendously
How about the chords that one can make when extending the harmonic minor into its relative modes?
Your lessons have opened a few doors for me that would have remained closed. Naturally being drawn to rhythm guitar. Has made it very difficult to learn lead. For me anyway. Thank you for making that a possible goal now.
Thrash metal 101!
This is good internet. When I get a job, I will support you.
Hello Ben, I consider myself an advanced player, but I want to give you a big shout out, I always learn something new from you. In this case, new licks that sound killer in the Dorian mode. Next time could you do a lesson just like this one on the Phrygian scale and show us how to incorporate some new tasty licks into that scale. Or even the Aeolian scale. Much respect Ben!!! ☺
Amigo - you are such a good teacher. I've learned the modes but never really felt a desire to use them. This simple and clear explanation really shows how we can use them to add spice and fluidity to licks, runs, that we are already useing. Really opens things up. Thanks UB!
One of my top "go to" channels. It's as entertaining as it is educational. I've been a lead player for years but I was stuck in the pentatonic boxes for over a decade. I started learning major scales but ran into a new problem. I couldn't make major scales sound musical because I was shackled by my old way of thinking strictly in terms of shapes. It's kind of like the 3 dimensional cubes we all used to draw. You can see it protruding either in or out of the page but never both at the same time. This was how I viewed scales. Once I learned that I didn't need to discard pentatonic scale but simply learn were to add extra notes, it really opened a lot of things up for me. And your channel has helped a lot with that.
I feel like a blind man in a JAIL CELL? Uncle B? You have opened my eyes 👀 on this lesson ! By adding the Dorian notes to the harmonic minor scale? I have escaped from the JAIL CELL/ Penetonic boxes!!! Definitely, more FLAVOR and TASTIER licks!! With the 4 note turn around!!!!! You, the MAN!!!!!
Thanks for the great comprehensive explanation of the Dorian scale.
Knoxville here. Thanx for all the knowledge.greatly appreciate all your work..
Yes dude! Your vid makes sense! A lot of them don’t. Nice job, love the turn around, genius!
I'm a complete noob, and a lot of the things you talk about go right past me, but it's still great. I've been watching a lot of basic guitar playing videos, and yours are not just the clearest but the most directly relevant to what I need.
Andrew Gray I started a year and half ago ! Keep doing what you are doing and paying attention even if it’s over your head. It works, thats I what I did and still do every day. Make A playlist and add your favorite videos and then go back in a year watch them again. It will show you how much you have learned. Good luck ! Stick with it , it’s worth it ! Trust me .
Thanks for putting this out there, dude. I’ve been playing and writing music since 1990 (crap, I’m old) and have never touched theory. But I do appreciate how much this can help open up different pathways in your mind, and of course, on the fretboard.
Practical tip. Good one! Thanks!
Uncle Ben, Uncle Koli thanks you. I’m no shredder but I am blossoming from rhythm thanks to you. Love your take on teaching and your humor. Thanks man
Great approach to playing a Dorian scale while maintaining your picking fluidity. Thanks! I have only been playing since 1969 and that tidbit of info never dawned on me.
Thanks Uncle Ben! I'll show due diligence dominating Dorian!
Dude what a lesson! There is so much stuff in here that I can apply to my playing especially the mixing of 3 notes an 2 note patterns. Thank you for the content. P.S. Dead and Lovely rules.
Hey Ben! I want to leave a huge Thank You here. About two years ago, I bought myself a guitar and started teaching myself the basic chords and as time went on, I progressed a bit and or over one and a half years, I plateaued at the level camp fire guitarist. I had no idea how to teach myself beyond the very basics because I really didn't know where to look. To get your questions answered, you need to have enough of an idea to even be able to ask a question. Sadly, I now still consider myself a beginner at guitar but music theory wise intermediate, I'd say. Meaning I know a lot of theory and the only thing I need to find as input are sometimes the connections between theory and what I see when I watch people playing. About two months ago I discovered your channel and man! it's a gold mine. since then, I've learnt so much more than in the two years before. The biggest chunk for me is putting in the effort - which sometimes means counting frets - and getting it all into practice. I'd be so so thankful if you ( for half a second) showed the tabs for the chords you play in some examples. That would help me to get the most out of your lessons. Thanks so much! You're a hero! Greetings from Germany
Thanks Uncle Ben! You are my favorite guitar teacher! Uncle Ben Numbah WAN!
Thank a million times for posting up this Dorian tutorial!!!
Always learning something new from you, Thanks, and Thanks to Mr. Franklin as well.
Awesome lesson, thanks Uncle Ben!
ben ive said it before and ill say it gain youve really helped a 15 year guitarist become soo much more informed.
Ah the moment a new Uncle Ben video comes out is always something new to learn for me
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Okay, that was sick, Ben. Nice one.
Thank you for this... I've been playing on and off for a few years and I started getting bored. I noticed that I'd also get tripped up with the "odd" number of hits on a string. That tip was especially important. Good video!
yep. awesome lesson. great teacher. sick riffs. thanks
Dorians a nice refreshing break from Aeolian!!! Very similar, Locrian too is minor heaven ;)
Good to learn all 7-modes though, people forget all the different scales, just learn the modes then you can master the fretboard!!!
Good god. So much suddenly makes sense. Thanks Uncle Ben!
Great lesson -really cool, easy to understand, you explain it really well !!
Thanks again Ben for an awesome lesson/sharing your ideas on picking techniques. Definitely will be practicing this idea regularly :)
Thanks Uncle Bennie
Excellent way of seeing the dorian mode....i use the first thing you said. Using the 3 note per string major scale but 2 frets down....good to see another way..👍🎸💥🔥
Thank you, Ben!
Thanks Ben, very interesting. You made that easy to take in!
Uncle Ben. Happy to find your Dorian tut! Tut! 👍
Started looking at your vids recently.. Love your stuff
You've been uploading some really great videos lately. Thank you so much! 👍
Always killer lessons from the Grand Master Eller !!
You make tougher subject matter a bit easier to learn for even a dough head like me . Thx !!
Just sick!!! I love it!!! It dont get any better than this!!!
Love the channel Ben. Thanks for all your time and thanks for keeping it fun
Dorian has always been my fav
"Don't it make my brown eyes blue..." I'm already subscribed. I haven't heard anyone mention Crystal Gayle in a loooong time.
Brilliant. Great tips. 👍🏻
Great lesson, I'll definitely use it.😉👍
Wow! This is the kind of lesson typical RUclipsrs and instructors leave in the “members only” section . Thank you so much learned so many things I can immediately practice and apply as intermediate guitar learner. Liked , subbed !
Awesome insight for picking efficiency!
Cool and clever way to spice up those conventional pentatonic. Thanks Ben, really useful!!
Great info as always man! Thanks uncle Ben
Thank you oh wise one, for showing us the way....
Great lesson,thanks uncle Ben.
I apply all you teach into my bass playing! 👍🏼
Thanks Ben, u really teach guitar very good, l love your humor & how u teach scales.....keep teaching....thanks again,. Bye now
This is great; thanks, Ben! Would love to see you do something similar with all the other modes if you're ever inspired to do them!
Solid stuff man! I love those turn around, deff a game changer!
Your awesome Uncle Ben🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thanks, unca Ben!
Thanks a lot, really nice video. You’re good teacher 👍
Dude that Tortex shirt is dope. I got to find me one of those. Thanks for all the videos love the channel.
Uncle Ben, this may sound lame, but it’d be mighty cool to see a lesson on how to practice using odd time signatures with a metronome. I can’t seem to wrap my head around the concept. You have a knack for taking complicated things and making them easy to understand. Thanks for all you do for aspiring guitar players 🤘🏻
I love that everyone is calling you uncle Ben, im now a fan
Great lesson man! Your a great teacher, keep up the good work!
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Awesome video! Can you please make one of these for each of the modes?
Great lesson Ben. Thanks mate :)
I had a lot of guitar teachers...but Ben is the teacher I never had but I wished I had. I'm mostly self taught and lately I've been watching all of Ben's videos and I feel like I'm being taught by someone. Ben, are you my teacher technically?😂
Funny thing is, this is so easy to adjust for all other modes. Every mode has a certain pattern inside the double minor third section of the minor or major pentatonic scale. Once you learn them all, you can just dip into whichever mode you want by adding in those two notes of the mode when passing through that section. What’s more, every pentatonic box has that double minor third section in it somewhere, making the modes easily accessible everywhere on the neck.
My mind is blown. For years I was playing Am pentatonic and then I added these extra notes and they sounded good. The extra notes I added were the notes you have in your diagram. Then later I realised the extra notes I was playing really made what I was playing a G major, but no I find I have been playingin the Dorian mode for years without knowing LOL
Thank you Ben for another fantastic video...I'm learning more from you on RUclips than I did from reading a stack of books over 30 years - and am adding you to my Patreon!
I noticed that the C#m Pentatonic lays over this and fills in all of the notes that are not shaded. I'm going to look at this closer, but there's a clear relationship between the two. B Dorian = Bm + C#m
I always did like the layout of the Dorian mode.
This mode is essential In Rock / Blues
I’ve been playing these notes just because I accidentally discovered they sounded good. I had no idea they had a name. 😂
Hey Ben, I have a crazy "riff you could never figure out" for you.
It's from Mentally Blind by Death, it's the riff at 2:24 . It's such a mad riff, and that reminds me of those videos about those riffs from The Frayed Ends of Sanity or Fight Fire With Fire that everyone would have a hard time figuring out
Thank you
"Whatever you do, just don't call it late for dinner." 😂Insta-like!
Good stuff again!
thank you this helps me understand so 😎 ROCK ON 🎸
That's some great stuff!
Nailed it!
Had a guitar teacher many (35) years ago tell me that whenever your learn a new chord, scale, mode or whatever.. assign it an emotional value word. My emotion word for the Dorian Mode was "Snake Charmer".. or the Carlos Santana mode..
This fits really well with the WWS from about 4 weeks ago... I'm still working on getting that bastard past 110 BPM... I've been stuck there awhile.
Thanks Ben, I had to watch this video 3 times because I couldnt stop thinking about the bubbles of Santana. I stopped to write you a message, to pass some time, in hopes of dissapating the misconceptual processing of my olfactory system. (Santana did not fart and I can not smell it, it's not possible).
Cheers for that mate
Impressive knowledge and teaching skill. Thanx.... anything melodic minor and harmonic minor I'm in 🤘
Wow that has a pretty distinctive sound. I swear you can hear it pop out some on Cacophony's Concerto from Marty Friedman and Jason Becker
So clever!
Ha! ...Bubbles pop in Santana's bath water. Great humor for sure!
Big Ben, you are one giant piece of fried Gold brother. Great lesson Dr. Ben.😁
This is the content I came for.
Love Crystal Gayle: “Donuts Make My Brown Eyes Blue.”
that chord, minor with 13th , reminds me of the first arpeggio in Shine on you ...
EVERYDAY, ME: Let's watch one of Ben's videos while I 'm doing some warm-up exercises... After 5 - 10 minutes: "Wow, what is he doing there? Interesting!" ...aaaand there goes the warm -up...
This by far is a fantastic lesson Ben. The 4 note groupings for better picking transitions just blew me away and gave me a lot to think about in my own playing. Can't hit your speeds yet tho this gem you added will surely help. I can't thank you enough!!! Btw on you page you asked things we would like to see you teach. I feel some vids on ideas of how to mix modes would be fantastic and we get to hear more of those hilarious jokes!!!
nice one!
from one Ben to another, mahalo bro.
Nice video! How cool is it that the Dorian scale is just hanging out like that in the pentatonic? I’m gonna jump on the band wagon and recommend Harmonic Minor.. thanks again Uncle Ben..
Nice shirt man!!
I like things that are nice!
great video.
Good lesson Ben! Your more busier on that neck than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest..
And it hooks onto the mixolydian scale rather nicely.
Have you considered to go through all the modes cause this lesson is epic:D
Atta boy , Uncle Ben
When I first started learning theory and scales, I thought Dorian was one of the more "boring" scales. Eventually it became one of my favorites, especially playing off the tension between the 6 and 7 notes when bending up from the 6 to 7... digging in slowly and feeling it... I hope that makes sense (I'm not as eloquent as Ben LOL).
Hey I remember watching your videos wearing a wig and shredding 80's tunes like ten years ago