Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
If you love Dorian you’ll adore the exotic Dorian #4 scale! This guitar tutorial is about the Dorian #4 scale. It is an exotic, Eastern flavoured variation of the beautiful Dorian scale. It’s also called Ukrainian Dorian scale, Romanian minor scale, Dorian #11 scale and Altered Dorian scale. It’s used in many different cultures, but is also perfect to use in Jazz, Rock, Metal and Fusion music.
In this guitar lesson I’ll show you everything there is to know about the Dorian #4 scale and I’ll show you how to make different styles of music with the Dorian #4 scale that is a mode of the harmonic minor scale. We look at Dorian #4 progressions, Dorian #4 improvisations, Dorian #4 arpeggios and more.
You can find the e-book and audio files here:
qjamtracks.myshopify.com/products/the-exotic-dorian-4-mode
Tablature, diagrams, examples and backing tracks will be available on my patreon page:
patreon.com/QJamTracks
*Chapters:*
0:00 Introduction
1:32 Sound of the Dorian #4 scale
2:56 Structure of the Dorian #4 scale
5:21 Harmonize the Dorian #4 scale
9:24 Dorian #4 progressions
14:32 Improvise with the Dorian #4 scale
16:08 ii-V-I in Am
16:42 For the Love Of God (Steve Vai)
19:14 Dorian #4 arpeggios
21:46 Final thoughts
*Crystal Clear E-BOOKS with audio files:*
qjamtracks.shopify.com
*Tabs and tracks at PATREON:*
patreon.com/Qjamtracks
*Social Media/contact: *
https:// facebook.com/QJamTracks
https:// instagram.com/QJamTracks
https:// youtube.com/QJamTracks
*Strandberg Guitars*
strandbergguitars.com
*Fractal Audio (FM9)*
fractalaudio.com
Neural DSP
neuraldsp.com
(c)2024 Rob van Hal, Netherlands
If you love Dorian you’ll adore the exotic Dorian #4 scale! This guitar tutorial is about the Dorian #4 scale. It is an exotic, Eastern flavoured variation of the beautiful Dorian scale. It’s also called Ukrainian Dorian scale, Romanian minor scale, Dorian #11 scale and Altered Dorian scale. It’s used in many different cultures, but is also perfect to use in Jazz, Rock, Metal and Fusion music.
In this guitar lesson I’ll show you everything there is to know about the Dorian #4 scale and I’ll show you how to make different styles of music with the Dorian #4 scale that is a mode of the harmonic minor scale. We look at Dorian #4 progressions, Dorian #4 improvisations, Dorian #4 arpeggios and more.
You can find the e-book and audio files here:
qjamtracks.myshopify.com/products/the-exotic-dorian-4-mode
Tablature, diagrams, examples and backing tracks will be available on my patreon page:
patreon.com/QJamTracks
*Chapters:*
0:00 Introduction
1:32 Sound of the Dorian #4 scale
2:56 Structure of the Dorian #4 scale
5:21 Harmonize the Dorian #4 scale
9:24 Dorian #4 progressions
14:32 Improvise with the Dorian #4 scale
16:08 ii-V-I in Am
16:42 For the Love Of God (Steve Vai)
19:14 Dorian #4 arpeggios
21:46 Final thoughts
*Crystal Clear E-BOOKS with audio files:*
qjamtracks.shopify.com
*Tabs and tracks at PATREON:*
patreon.com/Qjamtracks
*Social Media/contact: *
https:// facebook.com/QJamTracks
https:// instagram.com/QJamTracks
https:// youtube.com/QJamTracks
*Strandberg Guitars*
strandbergguitars.com
*Fractal Audio (FM9)*
fractalaudio.com
Neural DSP
neuraldsp.com
(c)2024 Rob van Hal, Netherlands




![Guitar backing Track: Energetic Power Rock (Am, Dm and A Dorian)
Sound like the power rock heroes from the 80s with this guitar backing track in Am, Dm and A Dorian with tips/lesson about modes scales, arpeggios, licks and chords. Excellent guitar jam track for improvising and plain shredding.
This Q JAM TRACKS *LEARN & PLAY* backing track provides a visual representation of the chords and scales in diagrams as they appear in the music. Extra theoretical information is shown in the video. It is a backing track and tutorial (or lesson) at the same time.
0:15 Jump Start: The pentatonic scale
0:31 Modulating to D minor – Dm pentatonic scale
0:52 A Dorian scale
1:05 Dorian pentatonic concept
1:26 Adding the blue note
1:47 The blue note in the key of D minor
2:10 pentatonic solution for the Dorian Mode
2:41 The A natural minor scale
3:02 D natural minor scale patterns (w/ 3 note per string)
3:25 The A Dorian scale patterns (CAGED)
3:58 A minor pentatonic and diatonic
4:21 A minor pentatonic and diatonic
4:38 Basic Tapping
5:54 The harmonic minor scale over the dominant chord
Its also a play along video for learning exiting chords.
Photo:
Haileymayhem [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Social Media:
www.facebook.com/qjamtracks
www.instagram.com/qjamtracks
www.youtube.com/qjamtracks
Recording equipement:
Fractal AXE FX II mark II (www.fractalaudio.com)
SONAR Platinum (https://www.cakewalk.com/products/SONAR/)
Adobe audition
Ibanez JEM 7V BK (www.ibanez.com) Guitar backing Track: Energetic Power Rock (Am, Dm and A Dorian)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9ecwAAoIMho/mqdefault.jpg)





