2 string modes: Dorian

A while ago I posted a major scale pattern that covered an octave on 2 strings. A big advantage of this is that the pattern can be repeated across the fretboard without alteration to cover 3 octaves in total.

This can be applied to other scales or modes of course, so here's the first which is for the Dorian mode:





You can see that it's possible to finger this 2 ways depending on which of the two strings you choose to play the 4th degree of the mode. There are a number of places to make the position shifts, and you may choose to alter these depending on if the notes are ascending or descending.

The other cool thing about learning these 2 string groupings is that it's really easy to just locate the root of the mode wherever you like on the neck and play with the 2 string pattern from there— the only one that's different is when the root is on the G string (just shift the 2nd string notes up a semitone).