A# Dorian — Tenor Guitar

A# Dorian is 7 notes per octave (modes family), drawn here as position boxes on the Tenor Guitar's CGDA grid with the root flagged in each — learn one box deeply, then let the overlaps carry you into the next.

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.

Fifths spread each scale wider per string than a standard guitar — fewer notes per position, longer reaches, and patterns that repeat cleanly across every string pair.

Play each box top to bottom until the roots feel like home base, then practice crossing between boxes mid-phrase — neck freedom is exactly that crossing, nothing more.