C Dorian on Vihuela

C Dorian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's A–D–G–B–E fretboard with every C 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 armonía is not a soloing section, so a scale here is diagnostic rather than melodic: it is how a player finds which tones a grip is actually putting in the air on a neck whose octaves do not run in order.

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