A# Dorian on Guitarrón

A# Dorian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's A–D–G–C–E–A fingerboard 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.

The bass takes almost no melodic line, and that is precisely why these matter: the notes between one root and the next come out of a scale, and an approach that lands wrong is the loudest wrong note in the ensemble.

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