{"id":8007,"date":"2020-04-30T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2020-04-30T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T00:39:42","slug":"using-the-dorian-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/using-the-dorian-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Using The Dorian Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you *can* use the Dorian scale over a 12 bar blues&#8230; that&#8217;s not the most common way I see it used.<\/p>\n<p>More often than not, I see it used over &#8220;bluesy&#8221; songs and not &#8220;blues&#8221; songs.<\/p>\n<p>Deja Voodoo by Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an example, along with songs like Spooky and Oye Como Va &#8211; not necessarily blues classics, but great tunes that come up often, nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>So in this video I&#8217;ll show you how to play it, and some ideas for practicing it and using it.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about Modes for Blues and Classic Rock music in my <a href=\"https:\/\/classicrockguitarunleashed.com\/get-modes-unleashed\/\">Modes Unleashed<\/a> course.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kvkWZoyhf6c?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While you *can* use the Dorian scale over a 12 bar blues&#8230; that&#8217;s not the most common way I see it used. More often than not, I see it used over &#8220;bluesy&#8221; songs and not &#8220;blues&#8221; songs. Deja Voodoo by Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an example, along with songs like Spooky and Oye Como Va [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions\/8010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}