How To Play 7 Amazing DORIAN Mode Bass Lines

If you've followed my last few lessons, you have linked different scales to famous bass lines:

11 Amazing Famous Bass Lines (Natural Minor)

9 Amazing Bass Lines (That Use Major Pentatonic)

Learn 11 Amazing MAJOR SCALE Bass Lines

Learn 11 Amazing Bass Lines (Minor Pentatonic)

8 Incredible Bass Riffs You NEED To Know (Mixolydian)

Once you link a sound (and that's all a scale is) to a piece of music you know, you understand how to hear that scale. Creating bass lines in that style becomes easier too.

This week, it's one of my favourites - the Dorian mode!

One Octave Dorian Mode

Here's a one octave Dorian mode. Notice the interval structure. Learn that inside out and figure it out in different parts of the bass.

By the way, this mode is used a lot in funk music. If you love funk then you'd learn a lot from my Funk Bass course.


Major Scale Mode 2 - Dorian

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