Guitar: C# Dorian Over the Changes

Where C# Dorian lies at this seat, and what a chorus takes out of it.

C# Dorian runs 7 notes to the octave, laid out here on EADGBE with every C# flagged. Mid-chorus the pattern is not what you need; where the root is when the chord changes underneath you is.

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.

A guitar chorus is a single line with the comp dropped, so a scale here is what the picking hand walks through between the two or three phrases it actually meant to play.

Play it slowly against the audio until it stops being a shape, then put it over two bars of a form and let the chord tones decide which of the notes you actually keep.