B Dorian Scale on 7-String Guitar

Play the B Dorian scale on 7-String Guitar with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Dorian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the modes family.

B is available as an open string on 7-String Guitar, and 4 of its 5 open strings are scale tones — B (the root), E (the 4th), A (the flat 7th), D (the flat 3rd). The G string sits outside the scale. Open, the strings cover B1 to E4.

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.

7-String Guitar is tuned B–E–A–D–G–B–E, with 15 frets to work with.

Each position shows the scale notes and their intervals from the root so you can connect the shape to its sound, hear it with audio playback, and practice it in any register. Movable patterns let you transpose the same fingering to other keys once it is learned.

Once a position is under your fingers, link the B Dorian scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of B to start improvising and writing with it. Working a scale alongside its chords is the fastest way to make it stick and to hear how it colors a progression.