F# Dorian — Dobro

F# Dorian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's GBDGBD neck with every F# marked, because what you need mid-break is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under you.

Minor with a raised 6th (natural 6) — soulful, smooth, and less dark than natural minor. The quintessential jazz-minor and blues mode.

Heard in: "So What" (Miles Davis), "Oye Como Va" (Santana), "Eleanor Rigby" (Beatles) — rock, blues, funk, jazz.

A dobro break is slid, not fretted: the bar travels to each note, so a scale here is a list of places the bar may stop on the way — and on open-G strings, the stops that ring against an open string are the ones the melody keeps coming back to.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a tune in F# and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.