{"id":8282,"date":"2022-06-14T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T00:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2022-06-14T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T00:51:39","slug":"dropping-in-the-dorian-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/dropping-in-the-dorian-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping In The Dorian Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often get asked about using modes with the blues, and there aren&#8217;t a lot of simple, easy answers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Except this one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Dorian Mode (the 2nd mode of the major scale) is a drop-in replacement for the minor pentatonic or blues scale &#8211; as long as you&#8217;re playing over an actual blues progression.<\/p>\n<p>So here I&#8217;ll show you how to use it and some pitfalls to avoid.<\/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\/5u7Nxh1Rb0g?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>I often get asked about using modes with the blues, and there aren&#8217;t a lot of simple, easy answers&#8230; Except this one.&nbsp; The Dorian Mode (the 2nd mode of the major scale) is a drop-in replacement for the minor pentatonic or blues scale &#8211; as long as you&#8217;re playing over an actual blues progression. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8283,"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\/8282"}],"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=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8284,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions\/8284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}