**Guitar lesson: Dorian mode**

Friends, welcome to the channel! We’re continuing our exploration of pentatonic scales. We’ve already covered blues scales and major thirds—basically, we added two notes. Today, we’ll add one more: the Dorian mode. So, pentatonic scales consist of five notes—we all know that. Let me play the standard first pentatonic box. No one’s ever played it, right? So, the standard Russian folk first pentatonic box consists of the minor third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and then loops back to the first. What’s the Dorian mode? It’s a minor scale with a raised sixth. In pentatonic scales, there’s no raised sixth. But we’ll take it and add it. So, we get this note—the sixth step, in the key of A, that’s **B-flat sharp** (B♯). Next, we can use this note in other positions. Here’s one way: on the second string. In total, within the first box, it appears three times (plus/minus). Now, before moving to examples, let’s talk about how to use this note. Unlike blues scales, which are unstable and almost toxic-sounding, this note creates a **minor sixth interval**. *(Example: Play the interval.)*