Dorian Piano Mode - Piano Lessons

Pianolessons.com the #1 Name in Piano Lessons Online Dorian Mode – Nate Bosch Hi, I’m Nate Bosch and today I want to talk about the second mode of the major scale now this mode is called the Dorian Mode. And if we take a C major scale we’re going to play the notes found in that scale but starting from the second note of the scale so call this the second mode of the Dorian mode. So we play all of those notes starting from D we can end it off with another D. Now that is the Dorian mode of the C major scale, all the notes found in the C major scale played from the second note. Now the chord we can build out of that scale is a seventh chord and we build that by skipping every other notes. So we start with the D we skip a note we play an F skip a note we play an A skip a note we play a C and there you have a minor seventh chord and that’s built up of the Dorian mode in the scale. Now that’s just in the key of C. Now if we pick a key, say the key of F the Dorian mode in the key of F would be all of the notes found in the F major scale but starting on the second note of that scale. So we start on G now we work our way up so it’s all of the notes in the F major scale but starting from the second note of the scale G. Now let’s build the seventh note chord that comes out of that mode. So again we start with our bottom note which is the G we skip a note play the B flat skip a note play the D skip a note play the F so there we have the G minor seventh chord. And so there you have what we would call the Dorian mode.