A Dorian on Guitar

A Dorian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's E–A–D–G–B–E fretboard with every A marked, because what a player needs mid-number is not the pattern but where the root is when the harmony moves under it.

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.

Scale work in the armonía is for the passing figure that joins one chord to the next — a few notes at the seam of a change, played by one member while the other keeps the pattern intact.

Take it slowly against the playback until the geometry stops being geometry, then put it under a number in A minor and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.