Chords for Unlocking The Dorian Puzzle Part 1 - Common Slurs & Surrounding Notes

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_ _ _ _ _ [A] Hey guys, this is Rick at Tasty Guitar.
Ever since I did the Unlocking the Mixolydian Puzzle lesson a little while back, several
people have asked me to do a similar video on Dorian.
So that's what we're going to do today.
I'm going to show you several examples of how I like to use Dorian using slurs, _ chromaticism,
superimposed arpeggios, and surrounding notes to get some really nice funky sounds.
And we'll also look at how you can combine these sounds, like pieces of a puzzle, to
get some very tasty licks.
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Alright, so everything I'm going to be showing you today is going to be using Dorian.
I'm not going to be really showing you anything which is just straight minor pentatonic.
Everything will be adding at least one of those two extra notes, the B or the F sharp,
or [C] sometimes both.
I'm also going to separate these into four categories of puzzle pieces.
Slurs, surrounding notes, superimposed arpeggios, and chromaticism.
Also, if you learn something in this first position, make sure that you learn it everywhere
up the neck as well.
Every place you can find it. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Alright, first let's talk about some common sounds using slides or slurs in Dorian.
A really common sound here would be to take the B note right there, the 7th fret on the
high E string, slide that up a half step and then back, and then end on the root.
_ [B] _ A lot of times pulling off to the root. _
[A] [Em] You could phrase this many different ways.
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[C] Just try different phrasing.
[Dm] But that is [C] a very common sound. _
[A] _ You can pull it off or you can [G] pick that last note.
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_ [B] _ _ _ [Am] Now directly below that one you have the 6th, the F sharp, sliding up to the flat 7th, back,
and resolving down to the E note, which would be the 5th of our A minor [G] chord.
[E] _ _ And again, try different phrasings with these.
Now like I said before, try to find these anywhere you can on the neck.
Now within this same position, if we go down the pattern a little bit more, we will have
these one more [B] time.
_ _ There's our B sliding up to our C, resolving to the root.
Same thing we just did up here.
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Just an octave [G#m] below.
[F#] And here is our F sharp sliding up to our G, resolving to the E.
_ [E] So within this one pattern, we have this twice [C] on each one.
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[F#] _ [A] _ So now I'm just going to jam over the track a little bit and try to use some of this in context.
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_ _ Alright.
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_ _ Next we're going to talk about surrounding notes in Dorian.
First I'm going to be surrounding the flat 7.
The flat 7 here is the G note.
If I'm going to surround that, I'm going to choose a note on either [F#] side in the scale.
So on one side I've got the F sharp, [A] the other side I would have the A note, _ [G] and I would
resolve then to my G note.
[F#m] _ [G] _ [F#m] Now of course you can phrase this many different ways.
[G] _ _ [F#m] _ [G] _
[A] We could also kind of reverse it, play the root first, the note above [F#] it, the note [G] below
it, and then resolve to our targeted note, the flat 7.
[F#m] _ [G] _ _ [F#m] _ [G] _ Okay, so that is a really great technique and something you'll hear a lot is surrounding notes.
Taking a note below, above, and then the targeted note.
Here [F#m] the flat [G] 7.
_ [G] _ _ [F#m] _ [G] _ [F#m] _
[G] _ Next let's do the same thing with the flat 3rd, the C note.
_ [C] _ _ Okay, the note below the C in A Dorian would be [B] B, the note above the [D] C would be D, _ [C] _ and
then our targeted note, the [Bm] C note.
[C] _ [Bm] _
[C] _ _ So [F#m] far, [G] _ _ [C] _
[A#] two [F#m] very common [G] sounds.
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Next let's surround that F sharp note.
So below we have the E, above the G, [F#] _ and then target the F [Em] sharp.
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_ [F#] _ And again, [G] you could take it in the opposite direction, start above, _ [E] below, [F#] _ then the F [Em] sharp.
[F#] _
[Em] _ [F#] _ _ [G] And now let's go up to the high E string and [A] surround our B note here.
So below I would have the A, _ [Cm] the C above, _ [Em] _ and there's our B.
[Am] _ [B] _
_ _ [Am] _ [B] _ And of course we could
do the opposite, start with the C [Am] above, _ _ go to the [B] A, and then the B in the middle.
[Am] _ [Bm] _ So to recap here, [F#m] _ [G] _ surrounding the flat 7, _ [C] _
surrounding the flat 3rd, [F#m] _ [Am] surrounding the
[B] 6th, and surrounding the 2nd.
Now I'll go ahead and [A#] demonstrate this in [D] context.
[Am] _
Alright, first let's surround that flat 7, the G note.
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_ _ _ Practice different [D] phrasings of it, [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] reverse the order, [Am] _
_ _ _ and embellish at the end.
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Next let's go up and do the same thing with that flat 3rd.
[Em] _ [D] _ [Am] _
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_ _ [G] _ [A] _ _ [D] Reverse the order, _ [C] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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_ [C] _ _ [D] _ [A] _ [C] _ [D] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [A] _ [Am] _ _ _
same thing with the 6th there. _ _ _ _
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_ _ Finally, same thing with the 2nd on top. _
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[A] _ After you learn some of these puzzle pieces, start [Em] trying to [D] put [Am] them together.
Here's the slur together with surrounding the [D] 3rd.
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