The Dorian Mode | Why Everyone Loves This Mode

I call it The Cult Note 🤣👀

Santana
All of the spaghetti westerns
Coltrane's "Impressions"

So beautiful !!!

Breathe Pink Floyd, if not mentioned.

Love these videos of yours Rick!

Without checking, maybe Bjork's play dead is dorian?

Beautiful atmospherics on the tune. Smooth, peaceful, and introspective. I could use listening more of this type! Peace Rick and thank you for the peaceful interlude.

Dorian and lydian are so nice

LA Woman starts in A Mixolydian but soon changes to A Dorian in the first verse. The opening guitar line clearly has the 6 and 3 in the intro, but the verse guitar lick played between the vocal lines has the 6 and the flat3. Great tune to play and sing.

That time you realise those years you spent composing was mostly Dorian without knowing what you were doing has a mode name! 🤣

Soooo beautifullllll!!!! 😘👍👏🌹

Well, everybody loves Dorian except the Genoans.

Grey cloudy day light rain in the autumn = Dorian

I love you man. Thx for inspiring us all to be better musicians!

Well, I guess this answers the stupid question: Did the Beatles understand music theory?

Is dorian used in star wars a new hope when luke is looking out at the two moons hoping for something better?

The first time I ever heard Santana playing those beautiful Dorian mode scales over a rock jam I was hooked.

Poor Rick. He just doesn't know anything about music ;)

Impressions by John Coltrane is based on the Bridge of the Pavane from Morton Gould's American Symphonette.

sounds like halo

Check out Frank Zappa's Black Napkins.

Beautiful composition Rick, it makes you feel dorian...like time passes but it´s still...like Dorian Gray.

Every pink floyd song

You interviewed Kirk Hammett recently. A lot of his best leads use the Dorian mode avidly.

Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man...Dorian?

Incredible explanations and knowledge!!! 🎼

check out christian brother by Elliot smith it goes from aeolian to dorian

I always just thought of Dorian as the Santana or Pink Floyd mode. Thank you for giving me a deeper appreciation.

Mclaughlin's song , "Devotion"

Hopeful sadness...

D Dorian is easy. It's All white keys.

Dorian feels untethered, like it just floats around without any resolution but it doesn't need a sense of resolution because every note and chord in that mode feels right. Dorian has such a dreamlike quality to me.

I don't understand what is meant by the raised 6th. It's the same as in Ionian, which is 2 half steps or 1 whole step. The 7th scale degree is flat (te in solfege) which is different than Ionian. But the 6th scale degree is the same as in a major key

Whipping Post..Memory of Elizabeth Reed.....Allman Brothers loved a bit of Dorian

Its just like abheri raga from indian music

Dragon Age Inquisition’s soundtrack also uses both D Dorian and D Aeolian in the main theme. It’s one of my favorite modal themes

My favourite mode by a mile. Brilliant video rick. That piece you composed along with the supporting imagery was absolutely beautiful. Get well soon mate

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boy ❤

Dorian is too creepy for me. I don't like it. I like Myxoldian much more. Dorian is give up time.

Wonderful explanation ! It seems I have heard this mode in Irish music and when 5b degree is added (Miles Davis , great Rock lead guitar ...) it sounds to me rather like hebraïc mode - As the Aeolian mode can fit with sadness this one does the same with a touch of anger maybe when played loud and fast - Keep on rockin' !

A few years ago the eastern US was threatened by Hurricaine Dorian. I woner how many organists that Sunday played pieces in the Dorian mode?

I like the D Dorian sound.

The theme from the 1990 film Jacobs Ladder has a something like a shift to dorian in it. It has a lot of up snd down aeolian key shifts as well.

Dorian is very comfortable for British musicians, because so much of traditional British folk music IS in dorian. They literally grew up singing in dorian.